Literature S1 & S2 Flashcards
What elements are common for excerpts from fiction to contain?
descriptions of setting, character, or actions
What characterizes letters?
the sense of sharing thoughts with a particular person
What type of audience do speeches have?
a wider audience and keen awareness of that audience (rhetorical devices are also particular to the genre)
How is the tone in a first person narrative different than in a third person narrative?
in a 1st person POV, the author assumes a persona and develops the character through that character’s thoughts, actions, and speeches (this sets the tone from the first few sentences). While in a third person narrative, the tone will vary depending on how intrusive the narrator is (is the narrator actively in the story or practically invisible?)
What tool do authors use to reveal attitude and point of view.
language (including syntax and diction)
Describe the tone in an informational nonfiction text
can be detached and matter-of-fact unless the author has an emotional connection to the topic
True or False? An ironic tone is used to mock or criticize
True
What are some oratorical devices a speaker might use in a speech?
Repetition, anaphora, or appeals to various emotions.
What questions can passages from fiction generate?
Point of view, characters and how these characters are presented, or about setting, either outdoor or indoor, and the role it is likely to play in a novel or short story.
What might a set of questions occasionally include?
A grammar question.
With diction, or word choice, what must one also consider?
Whether the words are learned and ornate or simple and colloquial.
What is question is closely related to a question on the main idea of a passage?
A question about the writer’s purpose.
What is environmental literature?
a genre of writing that comments on environmental themes
What in particular does environmental literature comment on?
the relationship between nature and culture (environment and humans)
What is literary criticism?
ways of reading literature that includes personal biases or accounts for them
What is ecocriticism?
an approach used to assess how the natural world is represented in literature
Where can early environmental texts from the United States be traced?
the early 19th century Transcendentalist movement
Where can early environmental texts from England be traced?
the late 18th century Romantic period
Where did many English Romantic writers travel for inspiration and material?
They traveled to lakes, mountains, and other beautiful vistas of England.
Who were key English poets during the Romantic movement?
William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Lord Byron, and Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Who believed that poetry should be accessible to all?
W. Woodsworth
The Transcendentalist came from England’s romance period. When did the movement reach the United States?
During the 19th Century.
Considering American Transcendentalism supported individualism, adopting it as a main core of their beliefs. What do Transcendentalists believe in?
The united theory of natural goodness of all people, they agreed to insight over logic in the search for the truth
What are the main five things Transcendentalist writers strongly empathized?
Alternate ways of living, advocated women’s right to vote, better working conditions, individual freedom, critical of slavery
Many Transcendentalists supported Social reforms, their writing reflecting that. What religion were American Transcendentalists influenced by?
Unitarianism, (A religion that believes not one religion has all the answers, that every religion can teach us something. It falls under the nontrinitarian branch of Christianity.)
The idea that “all souls are linked to one another; individuals contain the divine inside themselves” comes who’s Over-Soul concept?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Transcendentalists were among the first western thinkers to read translations of Asian Text. What Asian religions did Transcendentalists find entered their world understanding.
Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, and Sufism
Who was the example listed of a Western Transcendentalist who was heavily influenced by Asian Belief systems (Especially Indian Religions)?
Bhagavad Gita
American Transcendentalist were Influenced by Unitarianism and What else?
German Transcendentalists who influenced the English Romantics; Plato’s Philosophies and Mysticism.
What two close friends where the two most renowned of Transcendentalists?
Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson
Transcendentalism is what type of movement?
Philosophical & literary
Transcendentalism followed what period in England?
The romantic period
Transcendentalists believed everyone had a divine…
Over-Soul
Who is Barbara Kingsolver?
She is an author who would write ecological narratives that talked about the environmental destruction and its effect on rural Americans.
The English Romantics saw what?
The saw the ecological context of the city versus the country through different viewpoints.
What did Kingsolvers novel Flight Behavior (2012) talk about?
Her book talked about how climate change causes issues on a farm in rural Appalachia.
What was the structure of Kingsolvers novel Flight Behavior (2012)?
Using climate science as a way to mirror what the protagonist is learning at the time to create the structure.
Who is Nnedi Okorafor?
She is an author who writes books based off modern-day Lagos, Nigeria, how climate change looks like from the perspective of people living in large and bustling cities.
What does Okorafor’s novel Lagoon (2014) talk about?
It talks about the harms that have been done to Nigerian population because of the destruction of their historical religious beliefs as an effect of colonialism.
What book did Rachel Carson publish in 1962
The silent Spring
What did Yosemite write articles on
The damage done by domestic livestock
What famous book tells a world without birds, insects, plants, ect
The silent Spring
What was Rachel Carson before writing a book
She was a marine biologist that worked in the US Fish and wildlife service
What was the book that Leopold wrote
A Sand Country Almanac and Sketches Here and There
