GP: Midreview 2 Flashcards
What device did Alexander Pope use in the excerpt “Here thou, great Anna, whom three realms ober/ Dost sometimes counsel take, and someitmes tea?
Refers to a sentence that builds-up to an expectedly profound or otherwise significant end, but that fails to deliver anything of the sort
Anticlimax
Starts sa taas sa mismong peek pababa ang emotions
is a figure of speech in which successive words, phrases, clauses, or sentences are arranged in ascending order of importance, as in “Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird!
Climax
- baba tas pataas
Contradict ang self pero malalim
Paradox
- You are you father’s daughter
- Oh, animals all equal but some are all equal than others
Oxymoron
- A little big
In stylistic parlance, the appropriateness of a work to its subject, its genre and its audience.
Decorum
in literature is the principle of using an appropriate style and tone for a work’s subject matter and genre. It also refers to the appropriateness of a literary work for its intended audience.
Decorum
Here are some examples of decorum in literature: Tone and style, Character representation, Consistency, and avoidance of sensationalism
Word choice
Diction
- considering the audience in words
Perspective form. Which the story is told
Point of View
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter depicts a belief in individual choice and consequence. This ideal is a characteristic of:
Puritanism - strict moral or religious principles
Scarlet Letter
- during 1642 to 1649
- isearch to
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Robert Browning wrote “Child to the Dark Tower Came” from which lines taken
Noon strikes – here sweeps the procession in our Lady Borne
Smiling and smart,
with a pink gauze gown all spangles and Seven swords stuck in her heart!
Which of the following statement is true about the excerpt.
From ‘Up at a VillaDown in the City by Robert Browning
The sword symbolizes Virgin Mary sorrow
-uses Alllusion
Fatherof literary realism and modern theater
Henrik Ibsen
Being closer to god gives as streght
Transcendentalism
Extreme form of realism
Naturalism
Robert Browning
The child9s father and mother were amazed at what was said about him; and Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother, 8Behold, this child is destined for the fall and rise of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be contradicted and you yourself a sword will pierce so that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.9=(Luke 2:25- 35)
The feast of Our Lady of Sorrows dates back to the twelfth century. Since at least that time, Catholics have recognized seven events in the life of Mary that caused her great sorrow. That is why the image of Mary as Our Lady of Sorrows often shows her with seven swords piercing her Immaculate Heart. She9s also sometimes represented by a winged heart pierced with seven swords. The swords represent her grievous sorrows. Known as the Seven Dolors of Mary, these sorrows are
Seven Sorrows of Virgin Mary
- The prophecy of Simeon
- The flight into Egypt
- Loss of the Child Jesus for three days
- Mary meets Jesus on his way to Calvary
- Crucifixion and Death of Jesus
- The body of Jesus being taken from the Cross
- The burial of JEsus
Identify the following poem from which the following lines are taken:
Have glimpses that would make me less Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea Or hear old Triton blow is wreathed horn
The World is Too Much With Us
William Wordsworth
The world is too much with us= is a sonnet by William Wordsworth, published in 1807, is one of the central figures of the English Romantic movement. The poem laments the withering connection between humankind and nature, blaming industrial society for replacing that connection with material pursuits. Wordsworth wrote the poem during the First Industrial Revolution, a period of technological and mechanical innovation spanning the mid 18th to early 19th centuries that thoroughly transformed British life.
Who wrote
Auguries of Innocense
William Blake
Who wrote
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Thomas Gray
About to happen
Imminent (adj)
He is an __ member f the community
Eminent (adj) - distinguished
Emulate
(V) Imitate
Immanent (adj)
Existing within you.
Inherent or intrinsic