FINAL EXAM

Question 1

Catharsis

Answer 1

PURGING of emotions such as pity and fear through dramatic art; emotional release

Question 2

Dystopia

Answer 2

An imagined state or society with great injustice and suffering

Question 3

Totalitarian

Answer 3

Form of government that attempts to assert total control over the lives of its citizens

Question 4

Orwellian

Answer 4

A situation, idea, or societal condition that George Orwell identified as being destructive to the welfare of a free and open society

Question 5

Newspeak

Answer 5

Controlled language of simplified grammar and restricted vocabulary designed to limit the individual’s ability to think and articulate “subversive” concepts such as personal identity, self-expression and free will (eg. Instead of fantastic, one would use very good)

Question 6

Doublethink

Answer 6

The acceptance of or mental capacity to accept contrary opinions or beliefs at the same time, especially as a result of political indoctrination

Question 7

Thoughtcrime

Answer 7

Engaging in politically unorthodox/criminal thoughts

Question 8

Goodthinkful

Answer 8

Naturally orthodox, incapable of thinking a bad thought

Question 9

Groupthink

Answer 9

Occurs when individuals prioritize the cohesiveness and consensus of the group over their own independent thinking, and as a result, they are unwilling to challenge or question the ideas of the group.

Question 10

Abolitionism

Answer 10

Movement to end slave trade and liberate enslaved people in Western Europe and the Americas

Question 11

Manumission

Answer 11

Act of freeing enslaved people by their enslaver

Question 12

The Middle Passage

Answer 12

Refers to the journey that people who had been enslaved were forced to take from Africa to America (crossing the Atlantic)

Question 13

Intertext

Answer 13

A literary text that is related to one or more other texts

Question 14

Simile

Answer 14

Figure of speech that describes something by comparing it to something else with the words “like” or “as”