Lesson 2 Flashcards
0
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A moral and spiritual cleansing you receive when watching a protagonist overcome great odds to survive
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Catharsis
1
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“Seize the day”; philosophy of living for the day and not thinking of tomorrow
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Carpe diem
2
Q
Informal language can include dialect
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Colloquial language
3
Q
The set of associations that occur to people when they hear or read a word
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Connotion
4
Q
An image which runs throughout a work
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Controlling image
5
Q
Dictionary definition of a word
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Denotion
6
Q
“God in the machine” Greek in which the gods would come on stage to rescue the hero
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Deus ex machina
7
Q
The form of a language spoken by people in a specific region
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Dialect
8
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Particular word choice used to make a point
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Diction
