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What is a Symbol.
An image or action which has significance or a range of reference beyond itself, to something that itself has its own meaning.
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What is The Professor
Identify the direct object in the following sentence:
The diligent and hardworking students promptly gave the professor their brilliantly written essays. |
What is Rohinton Mistry’s “Squatter”
“In his own apartment Sarosh squatted barefoot. Elsewhere, if he had to go with his shoes on, he would carefully cover the seat with toilet paper before climbing up […] And if the one outside could receive the fetor of Sarosh’s business wafting through th
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What is
1) naming; 2) description of physical appearance, including clothing; 3) association with objects, surroundings, possessions, or with images directly introduced by the narrator; 4) direct discussion and analysis of the character by the narrator
Name two methods of characterization.
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What is Caesura
An interruption, break, or pause in the middle of a line of poetry.
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What is Gothic Fiction
A genre or mode of literature that combines fiction, horror, and Romanticism.
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What is Sentence Fragment
Name this Error:
He gave me half his sandwich. Being of a generous nature. |
What is William Shakespeare’s King Lear
For, by the sacred radiance of the sun,
The mysteries of Hecate and the night; By all the operation of the orbs From whom we do exist and cease to be; Here I disclaim all my paternal care, Propinquity and property of blood, And as a stranger to my h |
What is
a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. A story within a story. Ie. The Crucible by Arthur Miller- Witch Hunting is an allegory for the Communist Red Scare Trials in 1960s
Describe what an allegory is and give an example.
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What is A Sonnet
A poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, typically having ten syllables per line.
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What is Paratext
All those prefatory devices by which an author negotiates a space for his or her text, such as title pages, epigraphs, dedications.
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What is b) a compound sentence
The conductor’s baton fell, and the concert ended.
Is this: a) a simple sentence b) a compound sentence c) a complex sentence d) a compound-complex sentence |
What is Seamus Heaney's "Digging"
Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests. I’ll dig with it. |
What is
- dense social texture - physical detail - nothing magical - characters who reveal conflicting psychological motivations - unobtrusive narrator - symbolism is not overt
Name two conventions of “Realism”
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What is A Sestina
A poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet, all stanzas having the same six words at the line-ends in six different sequences that follow a fixed pattern, and with all six words appearing in the closing three-line envoi.
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What is Episodic Plot Structure
A series of chapters or stories linked together by the same character, place, or theme but held apart by their individual plot, purpose, and subtext.
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What is "to be"
What is the only Linking Verb?
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What is Sylvia Plath's "Daddy"
But they pulled me out of the sack,
And they stuck me together with glue. And then I knew what to do. I made a model of you, A man in black with a Meinkampf look |
What is
Vehicle: the actual metaphoric linguistic expression Tenor: the idea behind the expression that is being referred to
Describe the difference between the tenor and the vehicle of a metaphor
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What is A Villanelle
A nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding qu
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What is Dramatic Monologue
A poem uttered by a single speaker, who is not the poet, uttered at a critical moment to a present, specified, but silent audience.
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What is Parallel Structure Error
Name this error:
The actor was handsome, articulate, and loved to look at himself in the mirror. |
What is James Joyce's "Araby"
“I lingered before her stall, though I knew my stay was useless to make my interest in her wares seem the more real…The upper part of the hall was now completely dark. Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; an
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What is
- Inconsistencies. - Undue emphasis. - Strong statements given without inadequate evidence. - The narrator has something to gain by having you understand things in a certain way.
Give two ways a narrator can be considered “unreliable”.
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What is Dactylic Dimeter
What type of meter is this:
Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volley'd and thunder'd; Iambic: (unaccented/accented) Anapestic: (unaccented/unaccented/accented) Trochaic: (accented/unaccented) Dactylic: (accented/unaccented/unaccented) |
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