SEMESTER 1 EXAM Flashcards
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Formal praise or tribute
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Encomium
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To work on excessively
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Belabor
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To avoid
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Eschew
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Able to get and retain information or ideas; concerned with acquiring wealth or property
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Acquisitive
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To imitate
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Emulate
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To take without right; to steal
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Arrogate
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Trite, commonplace; the usual
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Banal
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To change from liquid to solid;thicken
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Congeal
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Tending to find fault, especially in a nagging way; nagging criticism
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Carping
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To establish by evidence, prove
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Substantiate
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Holding together; meaningful
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Coherent
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To stall in order to gain time; to compromise
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Temporize
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Generosity in giving
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Largesse
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Capable of being held or defended
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Tenable
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Unable to be satisfied
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Insatiable
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Preliminary inspection
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Reconnaissance
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Relevant or appropriate
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Germane
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Refusing to compromise; stubborn
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Intransigent
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Inclined to talk very little, habitually quiet
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Taciturn
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Offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness resentment
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Invidious
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Intensely eager
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Avid
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Calm, peaceful, happy
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Halcyon
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Sneaky; roundabout
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Devious
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To approach and speak to first
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Accost
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Setting fire or causing fires; tending to stir rebellion; one who stirs rebellion
Incendiary
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A comment of strong disapproval
Animadversion
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In chess, an opening move involving risk; an opening move
Gambit
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Having a salty taste
Brackish
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Theatrical, dramatic
Histrionic
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Swiftness, quickness
Celerity
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Asking humbly; one who asks humbly
Suppliant
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The state of being proper; appropriateness
Propriety
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Open, direct
Overt
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To move in waves or wavelike motion
Undulate
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Disrespectful treatment of something held sacred
Sacrilege
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An object believed to have magic powers
Talisman
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Nearsighted; lacking a broad view; narrow-minded
Myopic
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Without delay; briefly, concisely
Summarily
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Tending to make worse; expressing disapproval
Pejorative
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A whirlpool of great size and violence; a violent situation
Maelstrom
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Distraught
Agitated
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Belief or mental acceptance
Credence
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Lacking in spirit and strength; weak, ineffective
Feckless
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To condemn
Decry
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To pronounce distinctly; to express well in words; expressed clearly; able
Articulate
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To romp or prance around exuberantly
Cavort
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To disguise or conceal
Dissemble
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High praise
Eulogy
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To remove from a grave; bring to light
Exhume
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To display clearly; to make evident; to provoke
Evince
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Green in color; immature in experience
Verdant
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Wordy language
Verbiage
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Dark and gloomy; lacking in clarity
Murky
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Neatness in place or time; kinship
Propinquity
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Stimulating to the taste or mind; spicy
Piquant
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Founded upon a visionary view of any ideal world; impractical
Utopian
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Wicked, evil
Nefarious
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Having a gluey quality; sticky
Viscous
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Not usual or expected; not in character
Unwonted
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Created at the very beginning; basic or fundamental
Primordial
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What does Romanticism focus on? (Characteristics)
Emotions
Idealism
Nationalism or love of country
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What does Romanticism emphasize? (Characteristics)
Individual
Intuition & imagination
Changeability & possibility of human personality
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What are the other characteristics of Romanticism?
Profound love of nature
Belief that close observation of the natural world gives insight into all life
Humanitarian reform (abolishment of slavery, education improvements)
Stressed social progress
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Time period of Romanticism
1800-1840
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Five I's of Romanticism
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Imagination
Intuition
Individualism
Idealism
Inspiration from nature
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Beliefs of romantic writers: focus on ___________
Emotions
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Beliefs of romantic writers: profound love of _________
Nature
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Beliefs of romantic writers: emphasis on the _______________
Individual
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Beliefs of romantic writers: emphasis on ______________ and ____________
Intuition and imagination
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Beliefs of romantic writers: emphasis on the ________________ and possibility of human personality
Changeability
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Beliefs of romantic writers: focus on ___________
Idealism
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Beliefs of romantic writers: focus on _____________ or love of country
Nationalism
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Beliefs of romantic writers: belief that ________ ____________ of the natural world gives insight into all life, especially _________ ______
Close observation, human life
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Beliefs of romantic writers: _________________ ____________ (abolition of slavery, improvements in education, etc.)
Humanitarian reform
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Beliefs of romantic writers: stressed __________ ___________
Social progress
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Time period of Puritanism
1640-1750
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Form of government of Puritanism
Theocracy - under God
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Central beliefs: humans exist for the glory of _____
God
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Central beliefs: the __________ is the sole expression of god's will
Bible
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Central beliefs: belief that God has already decided who will achieve salvation and who will not
Predestination
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Central beliefs: felt that they could accomplish good only through continual _______ _______ and ______-____________
Hard work, self discipline
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Central beliefs: strong belief In ______________
Education
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Puritanism ideals???
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Hard work
Frugality
Simplicity
Self-improvement
Self-reliance
Plainness in dress, activity, worship writing style
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What happened in stop pretending?
Cookie's sister is in a mental hospital and she has to cope with the grief of her family and in fear that she will turn out like her sister
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Who wrote Upon the Burning of our House, flesh and spirit?
| What literary movement are they a part of ?
Anne Bradstreet, Puritanism
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The rhyming of two or more lines of poetry
End rhyming
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A symbol, story pattern, or character type that is found in the literature of many cultures
Archetype
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An archetype found in Native American mythology
| An animal speaks and displays other human traits and has 2 sides to its personality
Tricksters
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Who wrote Letters of an American Farmer?
| What literary movement are they from?
Jean de Crevecoeur, Romanticism
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Who wrote Thanatopsis, Death of the flowers?
| What literary movement
William Cullen Bryant, Romanticism
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Who wrote the devil and tom walker, legend of sleepy hollow?
| What literary movement
Washington Irving, Romanticism
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Who wrote the black cat, the raven
| What literary movement?
Edgar Allen Poe, Romanticism
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Who wrote the bean trees?
| What literary movement?
Barbara Kingsolver, Romanticism
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Who is the father of detective fiction
Edgar Allen Poe
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Who was the first writer to compare America to a melting pot
Jean de Crevecoeur
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Who mixed elements of the supernatural with realistic details in his writing
Washington Irving
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Father of American poetry
William Cullen Bryant
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He perfected the short story form
Edgar Allen Poe
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Gave America its first folktale
Washington Irving
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The repetition of consonant sounds within a line of poetry
Alliteration
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What does the devil and tom walker criticize
Materialism
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What lesson about death does Thanatopsis teach
Death need not be feared, for it is a part of nature
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What is not true about gothic literature
A completely immoral ending
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Wrote under the pen name Diedrich nickerbockers
Washington Irving
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What happened in the raven?
List his wife Lenore, raven came and didn't stop saying "nevermore"
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What happened in the devil and tom walker
Devil makes a deal with tom to make him rich then he sends tom to hell when he carries a bible in his pocket for a day
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What happened in the black cat
Edgar abuses his cat and hangs it, his house burns down and there is a cat print in the plaster
He buries his wife in the wall and gets caught
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What happens in the crucible
A group of girls are caught dancing around a fire and are accused of being witches
