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First semester exam Flashcards

1
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What is the presenting a discrepancy between appearance and reality or between expectation and fulfillment?

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Irony of the situation

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What is a strongly exaggerated simile or metaphor? On it the two objects being compared are so dismissal that the comparison becomes incongruous.

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Conceit

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What is a short narrative song written in stanzas?

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Ballad

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4
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What is the use of words which appeal to our senses?

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Imagery

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5
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What is a reference to mythology?

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Allusion

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5
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What is an unrhymed iambic pentameter?

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Blank Verse

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What is an approximate rhyme in which initial consonant sounds are the same?

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Alliteration

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What is the corresponding of sounds?

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Rhyme

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What is a comparison in which human qualities are given to an inanimate object or an animal?

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Personification

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What is the regular recurrence of a sound?

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rhythm

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What is the line in poetry consisting of one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables?

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Foot

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What is the ridicule of a human folly or vice with the purpose of correcting it?

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Satire

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14
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What suggests meaning or association of a word?

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Consonance

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What is iamb foot?

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[unaccented][accented]

Ex: “I ám” “A wáy”

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What type of writing style did the colonial era of writing use

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Plan, simple, and giving providence to God

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What is an implied comparison in which one thing is described in terms of another?

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Metaphor

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What is the repetition of sounds?

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Assonance

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18
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What is the occurrence of rhythm at regular intervals?

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Meter

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20
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What is using words which sound like what they mean?

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Onomatopeia

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20
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What is anapest?

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[unaccented][unaccented][accented]

Ex: sibling being a PEST

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What is the reputation of accented or stressed vowel sound and all succeeding sounds in words which come at the end of lines of poetry?

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End Rhyme

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22
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What were most of the writings of the colonial era recorded in?

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Diaries and journals

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23
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What is dactyl foot?

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[accented][unaccented][unaccented]

Ex: a ptyraDACTYL (the accent mark is the head and the unaccented marks are the wings)

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25
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What is saying the opposite of what is meant?

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Verbal Irony

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26
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What was the first printed book in the US?

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The bay psalm book

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27
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What is it called when an all-knowing author is the narrator, who comments freely in the actions and characters?

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Omniscient Point of View

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28
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What is it called when the author presents the characters in action with no comment, allowing the reader to come to his own conclusions about them?

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Objective Point of View

30
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Name the knickerbockers

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Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, and William Cullen Bryant

31
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What is spondee foot?

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[accented][accented]

Ex: 2 SPoons

32
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What kind of writer was James Fenimore Cooper?

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A novelist

33
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What did James Fenimore Cooper write?

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The leather-stocking tales

34
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What did John Winthrop write?

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The history of New England

35
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What did William Bradford write?

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Of Plymouth plantation

36
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Who loved John Smith?

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Pocahontas

37
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Who was the first port to write verse in America?

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Anne Bradstreet

38
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What is trochee foot?

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[accented][unaccented]

Ex: “máy be”

38
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What is the contrasting what a character says and what a reader or audience knows to be true?

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dramatic Irony

38
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What is it called when the author tells the story of one character, using either first person or third person?

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Limited Point of View

39
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Where was Roger Williams from?

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Rhode Island

41
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What was Anne Bradstreet’s quote to remember?

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“thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain!”

42
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What did John Smith write?

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The general history of Virginia and a true relation of Virginia

42
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Where was William Bradford from?

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Plymouth

43
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What did Michael Wigglesworth write?

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The day of doom

44
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What was the type of writing that William Cullen Bryant used?

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Apostrophe

45
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What did Edward Taylor write?

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Meditation one

46
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What did Anne Bradstreet write?

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Verses upon the burnin of my house

49
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Where was John Winthrop the governor of?

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Massachusetts

49
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Who was the most widely read Puritan poet?

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Michael Wigglesworth

50
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What kind of writer was William Cullen Bryant?

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Poet

50
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Who was the best Puritan poet, but the least popular in terms of reading

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Edward Taylor

51
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What did William Cullen Bryant write?

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Thanatopsis( a meditation on death)

52
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What type of writing did Washington Irving do?

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Short stories

53
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Where was Edgar Allen Poe from?

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BALTIMORE SQUAD REP FAM

54
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What did Phyllis Wheatley write?

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On being a slave from Africa

55
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What writing wrote with the focus of exposing sin and guilt?

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

56
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What type of writing did Edward Taylor use?

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Metaphysical conceit

57
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What did Washington Irving write?

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Sleepy hollow and Rip van Winkle

58
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What stories/poems did Edgar Allen Poe write?

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A dream within a dream, Annabel Lee, the Raven, and the pit and the pendulum

59
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What did Benjamin Franklin write?

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Autobiography, and poor Richards almanac

60
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What book was said to had sparked the American civil war ( per Abraham Lincoln’s words )

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin

61
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What did Harriet Beecher Stowe write?

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin

62
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Who was governor of Massachusetts bay colony?

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John Winthrop

63
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Who was governor of Rhode Island?

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Roger williams

64
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Who wrote the rules to making a good short story?

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Edgar Allen Poe

65
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Who wrote The Scarlet Letter?

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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