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Spring Semester Flashcards

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Proverbs and Idioms flashcards
1
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Correct or incorrect?

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I want to be shopping and eat lunch.

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2
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Incorrect or correct?

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I want to shop and to eat lunch.

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Pronouns and their antecedent nouns must agree in number and person.

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Pronoun-antecedent agreement

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4
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Incorrect or correct?

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When a person comes to class, he/she should be prepared.

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5
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Words phrases and clauses within a sentence should follow the same grammatical form

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Parallel structure

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6
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Pronouns should refer to a specific noun? Ex. I don’t think cbs anchors should show violence in their prime time show.

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True

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7
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The verb must match the subject

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Subject/verb agreement.

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8
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What kinds of irony is there?

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Verbal, dramatic, situational.

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9
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What is talking to a dead person or inanimate object?

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Apostrophe

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10
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Character that stands for an abstract (like love or beauty) idea

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Allegory

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11
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Narrative story written in song like form

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Ballad

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12
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Repetition on constant sounds

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Consonance.

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13
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Repetition of vowel sounds

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Assonance

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14
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Implied meaning of a word

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Connotation

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15
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Harsh sounding words ex. Reek

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Cacophony

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16
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Beautiful sounding words

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Euphony

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17
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No structure.

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Blank verse

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18
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Seems to be untrue but it’s not.

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Paradox.

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19
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noun

poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.

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Free verse

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20
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Lang. That can be interpreted in different ways.

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Equivocation.

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21
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Any 2 words that have 2 syllables & rhyme

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Feminine rhyme

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22
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Any words that have 1 syllable & rhyme

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Masculine rhyme

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23
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Something not in its correct historical time.

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Anachronism

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24
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Evil twin

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Doppelgänger

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25
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Slang

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Colloquialism

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26
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Inductive reasoning specific to general?

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True

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27
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General to specific

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Deductive reasoning

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28
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Extreme exaggeration

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Hyperbole

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29
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Polite way of saying something.

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Euphemism

30
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Statement of truth?

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Aphorism

31
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Several coordinating conjunctions in a sentence

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Polysyndenton

32
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No coordinating conj. just commas in a sent.

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Asyndenton

33
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We have ships and men and money and stores. He ran and jumped and laughed for joy.

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Polysyndeton.

34
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He was a bag of bones, a floppy doll, a broken stick, a maniac. - On the Road by Jack Kerouac

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Asyndeton

35
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British literary devices - Renaissance:

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William Shakespeare, queen Elizabeth, king James 1

36
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What is a lambic pentameter?

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5 feet of iambs ( I am a pirate with w wooden leg)

37
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focuses on how plot/structure, character, setting, and many other techniques are used by the author to create meaning.

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Literary analysis

38
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“The key to success in Critical You have to be able to let your mind wander far enough to come up with new and interesting ideas, while at the same time having the discipline to organize those ideas into a structured format.

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Critical perspectives

39
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Romantic period.

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Nature, supernatural, revolutionary sympathies, self, archaic language.

40
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Who wrote the time of the ancient mariner?

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

41
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A story within a story

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Frame narrative

42
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Four line stanza?

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Ballad

43
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Who wrote about nature and was a friend of Coleridge

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William Wordsworth

44
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Who wrote Frankenstein?

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Mary Shelley

45
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What is modern?

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Years between ww1 & ww2

It was experimental & non traditional

46
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When was post modern & contemporary?

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After ww2 & it was a reaction to 20th century. Anti conventional.

47
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Who wrote shooting an elephant?

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George Orwell

48
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Conquering nations

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Imperialism

49
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Three parts to a reflective essay?

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Event (what happened)? Response, reflection( what he thought about imperialism)

50
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A thesis statement should…

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Prove something.
Argument
Effective introductions

51
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Paragraph development

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Statement, ex, explanation, ammentary, transition

52
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What is tangible?

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Symbols and motifs

53
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What is intangible?

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Themes

54
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What is reoccurring

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Motifs

55
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Overall message

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Theme

56
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Tone is an?

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Adjective

57
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Tone vs mood

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Tone - writers attitude

58
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Mood

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Readers attitude

59
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Tone

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Writers attitude

60
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Tp-castt

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T- title 
p-paraphrase 
C- connotation 
A- attitude 
S- shifts 
T-title 
T- theme
61
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Sound devices are what?

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Alliteration, uphheny, cocopheny

62
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What is rogerian?

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Radial issues- persuade

63
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Rogerian is an…

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Argument

64
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What else is an argument

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Classical, Aristotelian, you lemon

65
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Classical is what

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Thesis in intro, details, data

66
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Bias?

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Leaning towards one side

67
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Rhetorical slant

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Words like good, tasty, and vibrant are positive slanters while words such as bad, sour, and dull are negative slanters. Using slanters can inspire emotional responses and perk up the ears of the people who are listening. Consider: “Fresh fruit is a savior to the overweight.” Here the slanter “savior” brings a bit of emotive force to the topic at hand.

68
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Innuendo

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Remark or hint

69
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What can be bias by?

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Selection, omission (something left out), headline, photos, loaded Lang.

70
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Commercial script writing is…

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Clear,concise, has one call to action, hook

71
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Mla style

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In text citations ( author name & page number),

72
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Plagiarism

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Cite all ideas that are not your own.

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