OAE Lit Flashcards
Dictation vs. Dialect
Dialect: accents according to culture/social status etc
Ex: there’s gold up in thar hills
Dictation: the way a person organizes their language
Ex: I’m heading uptown for the evening vs I’m going out for a night on the town
Improving Comprehension Strategies (6)
- activating prior knowledge
- asking questions
- visualizing
- monitoring while reading
- drawing inferences
- summarizing/ retelling
Illusion
deceptive appearance or false idea
Expository text
informs, explains, or tells “how to,” no opinion; only facts, has logical order
Style
a writer’s voice
ballad
4 lined stanza, but tetremeter & trimeter lines
Victorian Period 1832-1870
Ex: The Raven, Jane Eyre, David Copperfield, Great Expectations
British Romantics 1780-1830s
Ex: Keats, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron
Romantic Period 1798-1832
Ex: Frankenstein, lyrical ballads, She Walks in Beauty, Ivanhoe
Naturalistic Period 1900-1930
Ex: Sister Carrie, influenced by Charles Darwin
Quatrain
Stanza with 4 lines & rhyme scheme of AABB, ABAB, ABCB
English Periods
Old English (428-1100)- Beowulf, Norman Conquest, Magna Carta
Middle English (1350-1500)- Chaucer
Syllable
a word part that contains a vowel, or, in spoken language, a vowel sound
Onset and rime
onset- initial consonant
rime- part that contains the vowel and all that follows
ex: STOP onset- ST rime- OP
Mood
atmosphere created by a piece
Ex: MacBeth- dark, gloomy
Cognates
words that share a common linguistic history
affixes
morphemes attached to a word stem to form a new word
participle
2 forms of a verb that are used to express the progressive aspect & perfect aspect
present- add -ing
past- add -ed
adjectival- descriptive
types of phrases (3)
participial- walking by the bakery, _________
prepositional- combined with noun or noun phrase– “to the zoo” “at mom’s house”
appositive- word function where a noun replaces/ renames a noun
free verse
poetry based on irregular rhythmic cadence; rhyme is not necessary
post modern period
Maya Angelou, The Color Purple, Beloved, Joy Luck Club (Amy Tan)
British Neo-Classical 1660-1798
on Swift- Gulliver’s Travels, The Great Awakening, Dan DeFoe- Robinson Crusoe
