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Grammar/Writing
Question: Describe Parallel Structure
Answer: Parrallel Structure is using the same pattern of words to show two/more ideas have the same level of importance. this can happen at the word/phrase/clause level. The usual way to join parrallel structure is with coordinating conjunctions-and/or.
Question: Although an error in English, this used to join two independent clauses.
Answer: Comma Splice
Question: Describe Passive Voice
Answer: Passive Voice is a grammatical construction. The noun/noun phrase that would be the object of an active sentence. (The order of the words are switched.)
Question: How do you write in third person?
Answer: In 3rd person PofV, the author does not refer to himself/herself, suggesting objectivity in regard to the topic.
Question: What does Simplistic mean?
Answer: Simplistic carries a negative connotation, implying a simple-minded or insufficiently complex approach to an issue.
Grammar/Writing
Question: The conventional Renaissance/Petrarchan Sonnet writer glorified what type of woman?
Answer: Fair-skinned woman w/red lips/sparkling eyes/white breasts/golden hair.
Question: This genre of narrative most often employed in novels/plays/poems/films focuses on the experiences of characters in a situation where they cannot find any inherent purpose in life. What are some common characteristics?
Answer: Absurdist Fiction-satire/dark humor/incongruity/the abasement of reason/controversy regarding the philosophical condition of being "nothing."
Question: What type of fiction makes use of the grotesque/violent/mysterious/supernatural?
Answer: Gothic
Question: What is Iambic Pentameter?
Answer: Iambic Pentameter is the most common meter in English verse. It consists of a line 10 syllables long that is accented on every 2nd beat.
Question: What is the rhyme scheme of a Sonnet?
Answer: The Shakespearean Sonnet has the rhyme scheme of ABAB CDCD EFEF GG, forming three quatrains (4 lines in a group) and a closing couplet/two rhyming lines. The problem is usually developed in the first 3 quatrains, each quatrain w/a new idea growing out of the previous one.
Grammar/Writing
Question: Describe Neoclassicism
Answer: Neoclassicism=Western Movements in the deorative/visual arts/literature/theater/music/and architecture that draws inspiration from "classical" art/culture of Ancient Greece/Ancient Rome. The main Neoclassical Movement coincided with the Age of Enlightenment competing w/Romanticism.
Question: Describe Transcendentalism
Answer: Transcendentalism is a religious/philosophical movement that developed during the late 1820's/30's in the Eastern Region of the US as a protest against the general state of spirituality mainly the state of intellectuallism at Harvard/Doctrine of the Unitarian Church.
Question: Describe Semantic Feature Analysis
Answer: A Semantic Feature Analysis strategy uses a grid to help kids explore how sets of things are related to one another. By completing/analyzing the grid, students are able to see connections/make predictions/master important concepts. Enhances comprehension/vocab.
Question: The anthem by Ayn Rand focuses primarily on the concept of what?
Answer: Individualism vs Collectivism
Question: When was the Harlem Renaissance?
Answer: 1920's
Grammar/Writing
Question: Describe Limericks
Answer: They are typically 2 lines of Iambic Trimeter/2 lines of Iambic Dimeter/1 line of Iambic trimeter/usually humorous and/or bawdy.
Question: Describe Pastoral Poems
Answer: Pastoral Poems idealize nature/country living.
Question: Describe Odes
Answer: Odes evolved from early poems w/music/dance to Romantic poems expressing strong feelings/contemplative thoughts.
Question: Describe Epigrams
Answer: Epigrams are memorable one/two line rhymes.
Question: What ar Elegies?
Answer: Elegies are mourning poems traditionally w/three parts: 1. a lament 2. praise of the deceased 3. solace for loss.
Grammar/Writing
Question: What is prose?
Answer: Prose are complete sentences connected into paragraphs.
Question: What is poetry w/neither rhyme nor meter called?
Answer: Unrhymed Iambic Pentameter/Free Verse/Blank Verse
Question: What is a Rhetorical Device (example)?
Answer: Rhetorical Device uses repetition to create emphasis w/out changing word meanings. ie-I am never ever going to rob anyone for you and never, never ever give in to your sinful wish.
Question: Wha is a Figure of Speech?
Answer: Figures of Speech change the meaning of words.
Question: Describe discourse
Answer: Discourse is a formal way of thinking expressed through language/communication.