Syntactic Fluency-transcendalism

Question 1

Syntactic fluency

Answer 1

Ability to create a variety of sentence structures, appropriately complex and/or simple and varied in length.

Question 2

Syntactic permutation

Answer 2

Sentence structures that are extraordinarily complex and involved. Often difficult for a reader to follow.

Question 3

Tall tale

Answer 3

An outrageously exaggerated, humorous story that is obviously unbelievable.

Question 4

Telegraphic sentence

Answer 4

A sentence shorter than five words in length

Question 5

Theme

Answer 5

The insight about human life that is revealed in a literary work

Question 6

Tone

Answer 6

The attitude a writer takes toward the subject of a work, the characters in it or the audience, revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization

Question 7

Tragedy

Answer 7

In general, a story in which a heroic character either dies or comes to some other unhappy end

Question 8

Tricolon

Answer 8

Sentence of three parts of equal importance and length, usually three independent clauses

Question 9

Understatement

Answer 9

A statement that says less than what is meant

Question 10

Unity

Answer 10

Unified parts of the writing are related to one central idea or organizing principle. Unity is dependent upon coherence

Question 11

Vernacular

Answer 11

The language spoken by the people who live in a particular locality

Question 12

Impressionism

Answer 12

A nineteenth-century movement in literature and art which advocated a recording of the artist’s personal impressions of the world, rather than a strict representation of reality

Question 13

Modernism

Answer 13

A term for the bold new experimental styles and forms that swept the arts during the first third of the twentieth century

Question 14

Naturalism

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A nineteenth century literary movement that was an extension of realism and that claimed to portray life exactly as it was

Question 15

Plain style

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Writing style that stresses simplicity and clarity of expression (but will still utilize allusions and metaphors), and was the main form of the Puritan writers

Question 16

Puritanism

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Writing style if America’s early English-speaking colonists, emphasizes obedience to God and consists mainly of journals, sermons and poems

Question 17

Rationalism

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A movement that began in Europe in the seventeenth century, which held that we can arrive at truth by using our reason rather than relying of the authority of the past, on the authority of the church, or an institution. Also called neoclassicism and age of reason

Question 18

Realism

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A style of writing, developed in the nineteenth century, that attempts to depict life accurately without idealizing or romanticizing it

Question 19

Regionalism

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Literature that emphasizes a specific geographic setting and that reproduces the speech, behaviour, and attitudes of the people who live in that region

Question 20

Romanticism

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A revolt against rationalism that affected literature and the other arts, beginning in the late eighteenth century and remaining strong throughout most of the nineteenth century

Question 21

Surrealism

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A movement in art and literature that started in Eurole during the 1920s. Surrealists wanted to replace conventional realism with the full expression of the unconcious mind, which they considered to be more real than the “real” world of appearances

Question 22

Symbolism

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A literary movement that originated in late nineteenth century France, in which writers rearranged the world of appearances in order to reveal a more truthful version of reality

Question 23

Transcendentalism

Answer 23

A nineteenth century movement in the romantic tradition which held that every individual can reach ultimate truths through spiritual intuition, which transcends reasons and sensory experience