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