Prelim Flashcards

1
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Literature are composition that?

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  • tells a story
  • dramatize situations
  • express emotions
  • analyze and advocate ideas
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2
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Who enumerated why we have to study literature?

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Roberts and Jacob (1995)

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3
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What are the genres of literature

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  • prose fiction
  • poetry
  • drama
  • prose nonfiction
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4
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Also knoen as narrative fiction

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Prose fiction

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5
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Classed as imaginative literature and is only based on the author’s imagination

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PF

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6
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Its essence is narration and it’s focused on one or few major characters

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PF

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Main purpise is to interest, stimulate, instruct, and divert, not create precise historial record

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PF

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Aim is truth to life and human nature

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PF

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9
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Classification of PF

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Prose allegory
Prose romances
Prose satires
Novels
Short story

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10
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Fables, myths, and legends are what kind of PF?

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Prose allegory

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11
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Fairy tales, folk tales and myths and legends are what type of PF?

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Prose Romances

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12
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Express conversation that is grounded in the mostly felt experiences of human being

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Poetry

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13
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More economical in the use of words

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Poetry

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14
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Relies heavily on imagery, figurative language, and sound

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Poetry

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15
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What are the classifications of poetry?

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  • Narrative, Lyric, and Dramatic
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What are the classifications of poetry?

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  • Narrative, Lyric, and Dramatic
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17
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Epic, metrical romance, ballad, and metrical tale are?

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Narrative poetry

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18
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Ode, elegy, songs, and etc

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Lyric poetry

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19
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Poetry plays, masque, dramatic monologue

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Dramatic poetry

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20
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Designed to be performed by actors

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Drama

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21
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Focus on a single character or a small number of characters

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Drama

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22
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Enacts eventd as if they were happening in the present

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Drama

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23
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May use prode dialogye or be in poetic form

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Drama

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24
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Its essence is “make-believe”

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Drama

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25
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Classification of drama:

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  • tragedy, comedy, morality play, tragicomedy, farce, melodrama, social drama, closet drams, comedy
26
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Describe or interprets facts

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Prose Nonfiction

27
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The controls governing the development of the actions

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Plot

28
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A major element of plot vecayse opposing forces arousec

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Conflict

29
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The arrangement of materials

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Structure

30
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The laying out

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Exposition

31
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The onset of major conflicts

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Complication

32
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greek for turning point where curiosity, uncertainty, and tension are greatest

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Crisis

33
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Greek for ladder, the consequences of the crisis

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Climax

34
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The finishihg of things

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Denouement

35
Q

Verbal interpretation of human being

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Character

36
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A quality of mind or habitual mode of behavior

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37
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Recognize, change with, or adjust to circumstances

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Round

38
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Do not grow, static

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Flat

39
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Involves the actual physical location of the speaker

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POV

40
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The natural, manufactured, political, cultural, and temporal environment

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Setting

41
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The way the author assemble words to tell a story

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Style

42
Q

Consists if standard and also elegant words

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Formal or high diction

43
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Ordinary, everyday, but still standard vocabulary

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Neutral or middle diction

44
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Ordinary, everyday, but still standard vocabulary

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Neutral or middle diction

45
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Words referring to broad classes
Ex. Food

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General

46
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The words that bring to mind images
Ex. Charvoal’boiled

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Specific

47
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The words that bring to mind images
Ex. Charvoal’boiled

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Specific

48
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Words describing qualities

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Concrete

49
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What a word means

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Denotation

50
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What a word suggest

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Connotation

51
Q

Art of persuasive writing

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Rhetoric

52
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The number of words in a sentence

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Counting

53
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The repetition if the same grammatical form

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Parallelism

54
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A favorite parallel device by authors (ABBA pattern,)

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Chiasmus or Antimabole

55
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Refers to the methods which authors and speakers reveals attitudes or feelings

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Tone

56
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A verbal description of persons, represents an abstract ifra create direct meaningful wuestions

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Symbol

57
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Generally or universally recognized

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Cultural

58
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Private or authorial

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Contextual

59
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A major or central idea

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Theme

60
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Relates to meaning, interpretation, and significance

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Idea