Vocab 1st Semeser

Question 1

Cinderella’s stepmother is wicked at both the beginning and end of the story

Answer 1

Static Character

Question 2

Walter White goes from being a regular chem teacher to a powerful drug lord

Answer 2

Dynamic Character

Question 3

Romeo’s Father (Lord Montague) isn’t a character that has a long and complicated backstory, and reader’s don’t hear much about his personality

Answer 3

Flat Character

Question 4

Frodo shows a wide ray of emotions, has many complicated interactions

Answer 4

Round Character

Question 5

Shrek is a very different protagonist than what you would expect him to be (at first)

Answer 5

Antihero

Question 6

Oedipus’s swollen ankles represent the confining power of destiny/fate that has marked his life from the beginning

Answer 6

Symbol

Question 7

There is SO MUCH BLOOD in the story Macbeth that it leaves the readers literally sick!

Answer 7

Motif

Question 8

The struggle between free will and absolute control is something our class could talk about during Oedipus the King Socratic Seminar

Answer 8

Theme

Question 9

Hemingway’s direct, easy to read prose is easily identifiable

Answer 9

Style

Question 10

“Oh, I’m just so happy to be here!” the student said joyfully about the rainy, freezing Justin Bieber Concert

Answer 10

Tone

Question 11

I kept reading Mocking jay even though it is 1 of the most poorly written novels of all time because I had to find out what happened to Katniss

Answer 11

Suspense

Question 12

After reading the short story Mrs.Dutta Writes a Letter, students had to write a detailed analysis of it.

Answer 12

Explication

Question 13

Ikkyu asked “why do people have to die?” “This is natural,” explained the older man. “Everything has to die and has just so long to live.”

Answer 13

Koan

Question 14

Jodh’s thoughts: I like cookies. I hope Gursimar makes some before I come home from school because I’m so hungry! It’s kinda hot in here..

Answer 14

Stream of consciousness

Question 15

Men of few words are the best men

Answer 15

Epanalepsis

Question 16

If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, CONSUME YOU IT WILL, as it did Obi-Wan’s apprentice

Answer 16

Inversion

Question 17

That glimpse, like all dread glimpses of truth, flashed out form an accidental piecing together of separated possesions- in this case, an old newspaper item and the notes of a dead professor

Answer 17

Syntactic Permutation

Question 18

Give Cookie

Answer 18

Telegraphic Sentence

Question 19

Women do household chores, while men are the backbone of society.

Answer 19

Stereotype

Question 20

World Wide WEB

Answer 20

Dead Metaphor

Question 21

The members of the all-girl choir sang loudly and proudly Beyonce’s anthem “Run the World (Girls)

Answer 21

Chauvinism

Question 22

Hisoka realized that whatever he did was never done in hard work- he simply did it because it was “fun”

Answer 22

Hedonism

Question 23

My sister always has to pick the the most difficult and stressful jobs that nobody else seems to want.

Answer 23

Masochism

Question 24

The young boy pushed a kid down the stairs and was called into the principal’s office

Answer 24

Sadism

Question 25

Students admit that a lack of control and structure does not create a very effective learning environment

Answer 25

Anarchy

Question 26

I have no desire to attend school because there’s nothing meaningful happening there

Answer 26

Nihilism

Question 27

Mary Shelly’s book Frankenstein is an unrealistic story which relies heavily on emotion and imagination

Answer 27

Romanticism

Question 28

Walden, a reflection upon living simply in natural surroundings, is one of the most well-known texts from this literary period

Answer 28

Transcendentalism

Question 29

Before a scientist will publish their theories in a scientific journal, all hypotheses must be supported by data and experimental research

Answer 29

Empiricism

Question 30

I don’t know if there’s a god or not

Answer 30

Agnostic

Question 31

I know there is no god

Answer 31

Atheist

Question 32

Early in his life, Sautama Guatama gave up his personal posessions, family, and city life to live a lifestyle which would help him find the meaning of life

Answer 32

Ascetic

Question 33

Thinking and praying over doing and action

Answer 33

Mysticism

Question 34

Oedipus parents believed that if they killed their baby son, the horrible prophecy regarding Oedipus’ future would not come true-the parents were wrong..

Answer 34

Fatalism

Question 35

As we walked down the streets of Venice together, I felt nothing but embarrassment as my brother obnoxiously shouted “Merica” in the faces of everyone we passed

Answer 35

Ethnocentric

Question 36

A family who sells their worldly possessions and moves to the wilderness would be advocates of this belief

Answer 36

Primitivism

Question 37

Women’s health magazine recently published an article titled, “9 Health Benefits of Chocolate.” However, it is still not logical to assume that chocolate should be eaten at every meal.

Answer 37

Pragmatic

Question 38

An employee thinks of his new job promotion as a reward for all his hard work and believes that this will lead to more advancements in the future

Answer 38

Optimism

Question 39

An employee thinks that her job promotion was a fluke and will not happen again. She believes that more bad things will come in the future.

Answer 39

Pessimism

Question 40

You can encourage a baby to be a musician, learn languages, or be a professional football player

Answer 40

Tabula Rasa