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| When one definition is very much like another one or similar. |
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| It is the dictionary meaning of the word? |
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| It is the second meaning of a word. |
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| It is a rhyme scheme, where lines are arranged in tirades or groups of three. The second line of each triad rhymes with the first and third lines of the triad that comes next. |
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| What is the definition of mantled? |
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| What is the meaning of lithe? |
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| easily bent or flexed; characterized by easy flexibility and grace. |
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| What is the meaning of array? |
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| an imposing arrangement of elements. |
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| What is the meaning of ravenous? |
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| Extremely hungry; very eager or greedy for food, satisfaction, or gratification. |
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| What is the meaning of wan? |
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| faint, suggestive of unhappiness. |
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| What is the meaning of shade? |
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| What is the meaning of stated? |
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| A phrase that is used as a modifier should be placed as ____ as possible to the word it _______. |
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| What is a misplaced modifier? |
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| a modifier that is placed to far away from the word it describes. |
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| Example of a misplaced modifier. |
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Misplaced: Rick saw two owls camping on Mount Greylock.
Correct: Camping on Mount Greylock, Rick saw two owls. |
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| What is a dangling modifier? |
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| a phrase that is used as a modifier but dose not describe any word in the sentence. |
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| Example of a dangling modifier. |
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Dangling: To build a good campfire, twigs are helpful.
Corrected: To build a good campfire, you will need twigs. |
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| Information about Frank O'Connor. |
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| Wrote "First Confession", is from Ireland. |
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| What is a round character? |
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| a complex, usually main character, they draw the reader into the story and we generally tend to relate to them. |
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| What is a flat character? |
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| a minor/stereotypical character. |
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| What is a stock character? |
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| a very minor character, usually sidekicks, waitresses, servants. |
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| they generate action, are acted upon, endure conflicts, and they are major characters. Major characters: characters we identify with most and carry the story forward. (hero, good) |
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| they generate action, are acted upon, endure conflicts, and they are major characters. Major characters: characters we identify with most and carry the story forward. (villain, bad) |
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| What is the definition of fastidious? |
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| What is the definition of mortified? |
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| What is the definition of covet? |
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| want; desire what belongs to others. |
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| What is the definition of vixen? |
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| What is the definition of cryptically? |
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| What is the definition of incredulously? |
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| skeptically, unbelievably. |
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| What is a phrase fragment? |
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| a phrase that is written as if it were a sentence. |
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| Information about Dante Alighieri. |
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| He is from Italy and wrote "The Divine Comedy". |
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| Sonnet: a fixed _____ form of _______ origin consisting of __ lines that are typically _-foot iambics _______ according to a prescribed ______. Also a ____ in this pattern. |
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1. verse
2. Italian
3. 14
4. 5
5. Rhyming
6. Scheme
7. Poem |
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| A chiefly ______ verse form running on ___ rhymes and consisting typically of ____ _______ and a ________ in which the _____ and _____ lines of the opening tercet recur ___________ at the end of the other tercets and together as the last ___ lines of the quatrain. |
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1. French
2. Two
3. Five
4. Tercets
5. quatrain
6. First
7. Third
8. alternately
9. Two |
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| Combining By Coordinating: Writers can combine _________ by linking items of _____ importance with a ____________ ___________ such as and, ___, __, for, ___, and so. |
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1. sentences
2. Equal
3. Coordinating
4. Conjunction
5. but
6. or
7. yet |
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| Information about Seamus Heaney. |
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| He is form Ireland, and wrote "from Clearances". |
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| Information about Dylan Thomas. |
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| He is from Wales/England, and wrote "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night". |
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| Information about Stevie Smith. |
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| Her actual name is Margret Florence Smith and is from England. She wrote "Not Waving but Drowning". |
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| Imagery: Is when you use _____ to make _________ to a ______ image or a _______ image in the readers mind. |
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1. words
2. reference
3. visual
4. sensory |
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| Alliteration: Refers to a _______ of the _____ sound at the _________ of a word. |
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1. repetition
2. same
3. beginning |
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| Assonance: Refers to _______ of _____ sounds either at the _________, middle, or ___ of a word. |
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1. repetition
2. vowel
3. beginning
4. end |
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| What is the definition of deferential? |
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| showing or expressing deference. |
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| WHat is the definition of digress? |
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| to turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument. |
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| What is the meaning of etherize? |
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| What is the meaning of obtuse? |
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| difficult to comprehend; not clear or precise in thought or expression. |
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| Information about T.S. Eliot. |
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| His full name is Thomas Stearns Eliot. Was born in St. Louis, Missouri but permanently moved to England in 1914. Wrote "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock". |
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| Information about W.H. Auden. |
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| HIs full name is Wysten Hugh Auden. Was born in England, became and American citizen, and died in Austria. Wrote "from Ten Songs" |
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| a bomb specially designed not to cause explosive damage but to start fires. |
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| What is the definition of ignoble? |
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| What is the definition of impromptu? |
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| improvised; extemporaneous. |
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| What is the definition of ambiguously? |
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| What is the definition of rendezvous? |
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| What is the definition of deviation? |
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| nonconformity; departure form the norm. |
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| What is the definition of exploit? |
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| What is the definition of implacable? |
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| What is the definition of fickleness? |
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| changeability; inconstancy. |
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| What is the definition of altruistic? |
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| unselfish; without thought of personal gain. |
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| What is the definition of pillaged? |
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| What is the definition of stealthy? |
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| What is the definition of swathes? |
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| What is the definition of daunted? |
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| What is the definition of rebuked? |
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| Information about Graham Greene. |
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| His full name is Henry Graham Greene, and Is from England. He wrote "The Destructors". |
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| What is the definition of nil? |
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| zero; absolutely nothing. |
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| What is the definition of cowering? |
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| shrinking from; showing fear. |
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| What is the definition of piqued? |
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| A ______ is a group of words that has a subject and a verb. |
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| An __________ (main) clause can stand alone as a sentence because it expresses a complete thought. |
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| A ________, or _______, clause cannot stand alone as a sentence because it dose not express a complete thought. |
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1. subordinate
2. dependent |
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| Who the narrator is and how much knowledge he or she has access to. |
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1. Inside the story
2. Uses I, us, we, and so on. |
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1. Outside the story.
2. Uses he, she , and they. |
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| Limited or Omniscient POV. |
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Limited: Characters don't know every thought in other characters minds or every event in the story line.
Omniscient: Will know every thing about the characters and the story (all knowing). |
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| A literary element, or tool, authors use to "ridicule human vices and foibles.” |
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| Information about Italo Calvino? |
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| Born in Cuba in 1923 moved to Italy Turin his youth. Wrote "The Black Sheep". |
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| Characters stand for abstract qualities. |
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| Information about Heinrich Boll. |
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| Born in 1917 and as a young man was conscripted as a German Solider during World War II. He was later taken as a POW by the Americans. Wrote "The Balek Scales". |
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| What is the definition of flouted? |
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| What is the definition of poachers? |
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| trespassers; people who hunt illegally |
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| What is the definition of theology? |
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| study of religious belief and practice. |
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| What is the definition of seminary? |
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| school that trains priests, ministers, and rabbis. |
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| Can function as an adverb, adjective, or a noun. |
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| An ________ clause is a subordinate clause that is used like an _____ to modify a verb, adjective, or adverb. |
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1. adverbial
2. adverb
3. adverb |
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| An adverbial clause answers the questions: |
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1. How
2. When
3. Where
4. How Much
5. To what extent
6. Under what condition
7. Why |
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| A subordinating conjunction begins an ________ clause. |
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| Information about Karel Capek. |
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| 1890-1938; Was one of the most popular and influential Czech writers of the 20th century.Wrote "The Last Judgement". |
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| What is the definition of desolate? |
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| What is the definition of austere? |
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| stern and cold in a appearance or manner. |
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| What is the definition of inveterate? |
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| What is the definition of usury? |
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| lending money at a high interest rate. |
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| What is the definition of stately? |
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| What is the definition of pensively? |
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| What is an adjectival clause? |
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| Some times called a relative clause, is a subordinate clause that is used like an adjective to modify a noun or pronoun. Uses "which one(s)?, and what kind?. |
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| What is a relative pronoun? |
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| It relates an adjectival clause to is antecedent- the noun or pronoun the clause modifies. |
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| What are some relative pronouns? |
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| who, whom, whose, which , that. Sometimes when or where. |
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| When is a clause nonessential? |
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| If it can be removed from the sentence without changing the basic meaning. |
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| Information about Wislawa Szymborska. |
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| Born in 1923 and published her first poem in 1945. Wrote "A Contribution to Statistics". |
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| Information about Czeslaw Milosz. |
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| Born in Lithuania in 1911, his family moved to Poland after World War I. Wrote "And Yet the Books". |
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| A subordinate clause that is used like a noun. |
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| Information about Eugene Lonesco. |
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| He was born in Romania in 1909. Wrote "Rhinoceros". |
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| What is the definition of itinerant? |
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| traveling; circuit-riding |
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| What is the definition of paradoxes? |
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| seeming contradictions; anomalies |
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| What is the definition of banal? |
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| What is the definition on pedant? |
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| person who shows off learning; stickler for details. |
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| What is the definition of archivist? |
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| person who maintains a collection os documents. |
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| What is the definition of psychosis? |
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| mental derangement; loss of contact with reality. |
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| What is the definition of humanism? |
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| philosophy that stress the power of human reason; way of life centered on human interests or values. |
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| What is the definition of morbid? |
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| What is the definition of mutations? |
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| How many basic kinds of sentences are there? |
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1. four
2. simple, compound, complex, compound-complex. |
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| What is a simple sentence? |
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| A sentence that consists of one independent clause. |
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| What is a compound sentence? |
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| A sentence hat consists of two or more independent clauses. |
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| What is a complex sentence? |
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| A sentence that consists of one independent clause and one or more subordinate clauses. |
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| What is a compound-complex sentence? |
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| A sentence that consist of two or more independent clauses and one or more subordinate clauses. |
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| Information about Tomas Transtromer. |
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| Born in 1931 and is a poet and psychologist. Wrote the poem "Alone". |
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| Information about Boris Pasternak. |
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| Born in 1890 and wrote "The Noble Prize". |
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| Information about Andrei Voznesensky? |
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| Born in 1933 and wrote "First Frost". |
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| expresses a personal and emotional point of view. |
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| Information about Fazil Iskander. |
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| Wrote "Forbidden Fruit" and was born in the Georgian Republic of Abkhazia in 1929. |
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| What is the definition of latitude? |
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| What is the definition of abstinence? |
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| avoidance; voluntary giving up |
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| What is the definition of ideological? |
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| What is the definition of enigma? |
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| What is the definition of prodigiously? |
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| What is the definition of transfixed? |
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| held motionless; spellbound |
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| What is the definition of gamut? |
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| What is the definition of diffident? |
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| What is the definition of self-effacing? |
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| modest; not seeking attention |
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| What is the definition of egalitarian? |
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| What is the definition of notoriety? |
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| disrepute; poor reputation |
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| What is the definition of tenets? |
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| Information about Djanka Tassey Conde. |
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| Lives in west Africa and retold from Sunjata. |
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| What is the definition of baobab. |
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| a species of tree; its fruit and leaves are used for food. |
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| What is the definition of sorcery? |
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| witch craft; the use of evil powers. |
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| What is the definition of lameness? |
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| having a limb that is unable to move easily. |
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| What is the definition of preserve? |
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| to continue despite opposition. |
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| Information about David Diop. |
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| Was born in France and wrote the poem Africa. |
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| Information about Sembene Ousmane. |
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| Was born in Sengal and wrote Black Girl. |
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| Information about Ben Okri. |
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| Born in Nigeria and wrote "In the Shadow of War". |
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| What is the definition of stupefying? |
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| What is the definition of succumbed? |
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| What is the definition of ostentatious? |
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| What is the definition of corrugation? |
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| What is the definition of livid? |
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| What is the definition of dementedly? |
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| Information about Adewale Maja- Pearce. |
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| Is a Nigerian Journalist and was born in London, and wrote "Loyalties". |
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| Information about Ngugi wa Thiong'o. |
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| Wrote 'A meeting in the Dark". |
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| What is the definition of oblivious? |
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| What is the definition of consolation? |
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| What is the definition of vehemence? |
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| What is the definition of abated? |
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| what is the definition of portended? |
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| Information about Barbara Kimenye. |
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| IF from a small village in Uganda, wrote " The Pig". |
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| What is the definition of sinewy? |
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| What is the definition of fastidiously? |
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| painstakingly; meticulously |
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| What if the definition of placidly? |
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| What is the definition of fortitude? |
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| What is the definition of stoic? |
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| What is the definition of succulence? |
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| Information about Doris Lessing. |
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| Born in Iran and wrote "No Witchcraft fro Sale". |
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| What is the definition of protuberances? |
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| What is the definition of perfunctory? |
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| What is the definition of annulled? |
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| What is the definition of eminent? |
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| distinguished; high-ranking |
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| Information about Nadine Gordimer. |
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| Born in South Africa and wrote "The Moment Before the Gun Went Off". |
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| What is the definition of archive? |
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| What is the definition go agitators? |
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| Instigators; rabble-rousers |
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| What is the definition of infiltrators? |
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| What is the definition of callously? |
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| Information about Bessie Head. |
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| Born in an insane asylum, shoe wrote "The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses". |
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| What is the definition of cower? |
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| What is the definition of ruefully? |
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| What is the definition of acute? |
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| What is the definition of pivot? |
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| What is the definition of tirade? |
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| tongue-lashing; long scolding speech |
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| What is the definition of commodities? |
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