Midterm Exam Review Flashcards
Adverb Clauses
Begin with a subordinating conjunction
Subordinating cunjunctions
take a comma when they become at the beginning of a sentence but don’t when at the end of a sentence
Subordinating conjunction exceptions
- though
- although
- even though
- whereas
- while
The seven coordinating cunjunctions are
- far
- and
- nor
- but
- or
- yet
- so
Coordinating conjunctions
Join like parts and get a comma when there’s a sentence on each side
Splice
When a lone comma is used to join independent clauses
Conjunctive adverb examples
Therefore, however
Conjunctive adverbs
take a semicolin before it and a comma after it if it joins two sentences
S V; therefore, S V.
When does a conjunctive adverb take only a comma?
When it interrupts a sentence instead of joining two complete sentences
Puritanism (1620-1700)
- Was marked by a duality of thinking that looked inward and outward for signs of grace
- Used the “Plain Style”
- Viewed life as a journey or pilgrimage
- Wrote diaries, histories, and sermons
Neoclassicism (1700-1815)
- Guided by Rationalism
- Had a deistic worldview
- Belived that people were perfectible if they approached life logically
Romaticism (1815-1860)
- Began in Europe as a reaction to the rationalism of the Enlightenment
- Believed that imagination, intuition, and the supernatural were valid ways of life
Transcendentalism (1840-1860)
- Is a subcategory of Romaticism and an extreme form of the movement
- Believed that everything in the world is a reflection of the Over-Soul
“Upon the Burning of Our House”
Anne Bradstreet criticizes valuing material items too much and shows the duality of Puritan thought.
“Upon a Spider Catching a Fly”
Edward Taylor likens Satan to the spider, the unregenerate to a fly, and the elect to the wasp
“The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow emplys the caesura and refrain to reinforce the theme that nature is eternal
“Thanatopsis”
William Cullen Bryan meditates death, but the last stanza’s focus is actually on life, with a live-with-no-regrets emphasis
“Rip Van Winkle”
Washington Irving’s theme is the desire that every person has to be free
“The Raven”
Edgar Allen Poe ends this poem with the idea of never ending despair
“Because I Could not Stop for Death”
Emily Dickinson personifies death as a polite gentlemen as he takes her though her stages of life
“I Tase a Liquor Never Brewed”
Emily Dickinson’s speaker is intoxicated on the beauty of nature
“I Hear America Singing”
Walt Whitman celebrates the work of common Americans, likening the sound of labor to a song
A theme that unifies the incidents in William Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation is…
faith in the workings of Providence
In his speech to the Virginia Convention…
Patrick Henry shows his rationalistic orientaton when he says, “I have but on lamp by which my feet are guided and that is the lamp of experience.”
