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| a terse saying embodying a general truth, or astute observation, as “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely” (Lord Acton) |
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| What time period did Transcendentalism occur in? |
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| List four major proponents of the Transcendentalism period: |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Margaret Fuller
Bronson Alcott |
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| What were the characteristics of the Transcendentalism period? |
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Basic Beliefs:
1. Quest for truth
2. Individualism
3. Strong connection to Nature
4. Dislike of materialism
5. Must rely on intuition
believed that intuition and the individual conscience “transcend” experience and thus are better guides to truth than are the senses and logical reason. |
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| What time period did Existentialism occur? |
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| List three major proponents of the Existentialism time period: |
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Søren Kierkegaard
Jean-Paul Sartre
Albert Camus |
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| What were the characteristics of the Existentialism period? |
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* Human free will
* Human nature is chosen through life choices
* A person is best when struggling against their individual nature, fighting for life
* Decisions are not without stress and consequences
* There are things that are not rational
* Personal responsibility and discipline is crucial
* Society is unnatural and its traditional religious and secular rules are arbitrary
* Worldly desire is futile |
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| a short account of a particular incident or event of an interesting or amusing nature, often biographical |
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| an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor (Ex: In TKAM, the qoute, "Mayberry had nothing to fear but fear itself" shows that this novel is set during the great depression period. |
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| a word, phrase, or clause, usually a substantive, that is replaced by a pronoun or other substitute later, or occasionally earlier, in the same or in another, usually subsequent, sentence. In Jane lost a glove and she can't find it, Jane is the antecedent of she and glove is the BLANK of it. |
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| an elaborate, fanciful metaphor, esp. of a strained or far-fetched nature |
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| Characteristics of Romanticism? |
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| a literary and artistic movement of the nineteenth century that arose in reaction against eighteenth-century Neoclassicism and placed a premium on fancy, imagination, emotion, nature, individuality, and exotica. |
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| Characteristics of Realism? |
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| a literary movement that began during the nineteenth century and stressed the actual as opposed to the imagined or the fanciful. The Realists tried to write truthfully and objectively about ordinary characters in ordinary situations. They reacted against Romanticism, rejecting heroic, adventurous, unusual, or unfamiliar subjects. They, in turn, were followed by the Naturalists, who traced the effects of heredity and environment on people helpless to change their situations. |
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| Characteristics of Naturalism? |
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| a literary movement among novelists at the end of the nineteenth century and during the early decades of the twentieth century. The Naturalists tended to view people as hapless victims of immutable natural laws |
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| Characteristics of Regionalism? |
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| present the distinct culture of an area, including its speech, customs, beliefs, and history. |
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| Characteristics of the Harlem Renaissance |
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| Part of the Modern Age, it occurred during the 1920’s, was a time of African American artistic creativity centered in Harlem, in New York City |
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| Characteristics of Enlightenment |
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| influence of science and logic, this period is marked in US literature by political writings. Genres included political documents, speeches, and letters. |
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| American writers as diverse as Cooper, Poe, Thoreau, Emerson, Dickinson, Hawthorne, and Melville. |
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| Bret Harte and Sarah Orne Jewett and is evident in the writings of major figures such as Mark Twain and Henry James. |
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| Stephen Crane, Jack London, and Theodore Dreiser |
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| Willa Cather and William Faulkner |
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| Ezra Pound and Amy Lowell |
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| Faulkner, Steinbeck, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Frost |
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| Harlem Renaissance authors |
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| Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, and Arna Bontemps. |
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is a word formed from a verb that can function as part of a verb phrase.
For example:-
has been
Or independently as an adjective.
For example:-
working woman
hot water bottle |
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| We use ______ participles (-ed) to describe how we feel. We use ______ participles [-ing] to describe what caused the feelings |
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| virtually all English words that end with ‘ing’ are this. |
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| it is formed by adding d or ed, to the base form of regular verbs |
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indicates completed action. You form the perfect participle by putting the present participle having in front of the past participle.
ex: having done |
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is a noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it. The appositive can be a short or long combination of words. Look at these examples:
The insect, a cockroach, is crawling across the kitchen table. |
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| Metaphysical Poet Characteristics |
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| the name given to a diverse group of 17th‐century English poets whose work is notable for its ingenious use of intellectual and theological concepts in surprising conceits, strange paradoxes, and far‐fetched imagery. |
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| John Donne, Andrew Marvell, Abraham Cowley, John Cleveland, |
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is the noun following a linking verb that restates or stands for the subject.
At the end of the tournament, Tiger woods was the leader. |
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| noun clause as a predicate nominative |
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A noun clause can serve as a predicate nominative, as in this sentence:
The fact is, you are not ready.
Note that the phrase you are not ready renames the fact. |
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is often used right before a direct object and does not follow a preposition, as illustrated in the phrases above. If a preposition is used, then the word becomes the object of that preposition, as in the following, where to and for are prepositions and man and yourself are their objects:
We will make an offer to the man. Get a job for yourself.
Even though the indirect object is not found after a preposition in English, it can be discovered by asking TO WHOM or FOR WHOM after the verb |
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| noun clause functioning as a direct object |
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Example of a noun clause functioning as an indirect object .
We showed the professor the error.
"The professor" in this sentence is the indirect
object, and "the error" is the direct object. |
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smallest unit of grammar
ex: cats is 2 units and one syllable
ex: unladylike is 3 units and 4 syllables |
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can only be a suffix added to a morpheme
for example: it is the s in cats |
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| Changes the meanings of words...for example un changes the word invited. uninvited |
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