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Midterm Flashcards

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Morose

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Gloomy

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Ominous

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Of bad omen, threatening danger, menacing

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Desolate

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Deserted

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Meager

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Poor, scanty , inadequate

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Upbraid

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Criticized

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Machinations

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Plots, schemes

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Hunched

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To arch the top half of ones body

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Flak

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Antiaircraft fire

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Turret

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The bottom of an aircraft that the ball turret gunner shoots from

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Theocracy

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Government ruled by religious authority

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Dissembling

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The hiding of ones feelings or emotions

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Blasphemy

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Words or actions that disrespect something sacred

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Beguile

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Mislead; deceive

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Adamant

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Not giving in; immovable

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Obscurity

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Darkness

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Iniquity

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Wickedness

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Pensively

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Thoughtfully or seriously

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Tenure

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Length of time that an office is held

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Despotism

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Rule by a tyrant or king with unlimited power

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Insidious

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Sly, sneaky

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Solace

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Comfort

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Undaunted

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Not afraid or discouraged

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Pallid

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Pale

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External conflict

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A conflict between a person an an outside force whether it be a person

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Internal conflict

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A struggle between opposing forces within a person’s mind

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Characterization

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The process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character

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Static character

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One who does not change much in the course of a story

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Dynamic character

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Changes in some sort of important way s a result of the story’is actions. Has an epiphany

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Foreshadowing

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Using hints and clues to suggest what will happen late in the plot

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Repetition

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Property of repeated words, sounds, syllables, or other elements in a work

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Tone

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The attitude a writer takes toward the subject of works the characters in it, or the audience

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Mood

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Overall emotion created by a work of literature

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Rhetorical question

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A question that is asked for effect and that does not actually require an answer

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Epiphany

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When a character has a distinct moment of revelation or insight

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Irony

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Discrepancy between Appearances and reality

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Inversion

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Words of a sentence or clause are used out of normal word order, or syntax

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Simile

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A figure a speech that makes an explicit comparison between two unlike things using like or as

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Metaphor

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Comparison of two unlike things without the use of like, as,

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Parallelism

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A repetition of grammatical word or phrase that comes in the same place in a sentence

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Allusion

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A reference to another work, history, literature, politics, sports etc.

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Emotion appeals

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Words, images, anecdotes (short amusing story)

A) feelings b) hopes c)beliefs

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Logical appeal

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Facts, statistics, examples to influence their audience

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Revolutionary period (Rhetoric) (Henry)

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Speech to the virginia convention
Self - promoted pamphlets, speeches, and important political documents

  • Art of persuasive writing and speaking
  • uses effective figurative language
  • compositional techniques
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Puritan era

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Bradstreet and Edwards

  • – here fellow some versus upon the burning of our house, July 10, 1666 (Anne Bradstreet)
  • – sinners in the hand of an angry god.

Meant to teach people about the ways of god and warn about dangers of hell - not to entertain

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Romantic era

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Emphasizes - individual, imagination, nature
Dark gloomy
Personal stories
Emotions more than intellect

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Gothic style

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Dark meanings
Supernatural
Violent

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Contemporary era

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People struggled to find meaning in the world
Setting and characters more realistic
Universal themes

Life you save may be your own - Flanders o’conner
The magic barrel - beredad malamud
The death of the ball turret gunner- Randall jarrell
The cruicible - Arthur miller

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Crucible

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Sever test or trial john proctor

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