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PY- after midterm Flashcards

1
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Dive (noun)

A

Dump, low class restaurant

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Sardonic

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Ironically humorous

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Ironically humorous

A

Sardonic

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Metonymy (Association)

A

Nothing is being transfered- putting into something related
(e.g. Crown is power)

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5
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Nothing is being transfered- putting into something related
(e.g. Crown is power)

A

Metonymy (Association)

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Synecdoche

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Transfered, - putting into something not related

(e.g. love is a rose red)

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7
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Transfered, - putting into something not related

(e.g. love is a rose red)

A

Synecdoche

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Wry

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Humorously sarcastic or mocking

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9
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Humorously sarcastic or mocking

A

Wry

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10
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  • droll
A

smart with unpleasant aftertaste

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11
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smart with unpleasant aftertaste

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  • droll
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12
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-floe

A

flat mass of ice

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13
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flat mass of ice

A

-floe

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14
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  • Heaney: Digging (on test)
A

You father who dig grave are like me who dig with my pen.

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You father who dig grave are like me who dig with my pen.

A
  • Heaney: Digging (on test)
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16
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W.B. Yeats:

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Orwell: Homage to Catolonia
1984 EngSoc
Prufrock : images of a gyre
Orwell: Homage to Catolonia
1984 EngSoc
Prufrock : images of a gyre

17
Q

Heaney

A

Digging on test

18
Q

Digging on test

19
Q

enlightenment driven away

A

Allusion to 18th century

20
Q

Allusion to 18th century

A

enlightenment driven away

21
Q

Imperialisms Face

22
Q

Communism

A

Imperialisms Face

23
Q

International Wrong

24
Q

Socialism

A

International Wrong

25
Q

Flesh-Pot

A

Kenning For Humans

26
Q

Kenning For Humans

27
Q

And Crow retched again, before God could stop him.

  • Author + Meaning
A
    • Ted Hughes - Crow’s First Lesson
    • Crow made man not God
28
Q

God struggled to part them, cursed, wept

  • Author
  • Meaning
A
  • Ted Hughes - Crow’s First lesson
  • The crow wins
29
Q

Stunt Leones

  • Author
  • Tone
A
  • Stevie Smith
  • Sardonic, Wry, Ironic
30
Q

Ruddy

A
  • Red (curse word)
31
Q
  • Red (curse word)
32
Q

felt a little blue (figure)

A

Understatement of Death
- Litotes

33
Q

Diadem grew carious

  • figure
  • meaning
A

Scholar Head - Metonymy

34
Q

Heaney

  • Full name
  • Title
  • Relevant word
A
  • Seamus Heaney
  • The Bog Queen
  • Digging
35
Q

Kids and Slides

  • Author
  • Title
  • Relate to
A
  • Philip Larkin
  • High Windows
  • Going downhill to end up Fu**ing

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