Unit 1
A synonym for credulous as is used in this sentence. The credulous audience believed all the magician's tricks were real.
What is trusting?
An adjective meaning increased, enhanced.
What is augmented?
Kind or lenient treatment.
What is clemency?
Experiencing a feeling of whirling about, dizzy.
What is giddy?
Action of digging up or unearthing something.
What is excavation?
Something that is understood without being clearly stated.
What is implicit?
Theme used in gothic genre.
What is horror?
Point of view from which a story is told.
What is author's perspective?
Diction, the author’s selection of specific words and phrases that can help the reader hone in on a specific perspective in the narrative text.
What is word choice?
How fast or slow the actions and events develop in a story.
What is pacing?
When writing a paper, this is a resource used to find synonyms and interesting words.
What is a thesaurus?
Archetype of Redcrosse Knight in poem, The Faerie Queene.
What is hero?
A literary device that creates emphasis by intentionally giving less significance to a situation than it really has, or saying less than is actually true.
What is understatement?
A specialized form of irony, expresses the opposite of what is actually meant. Its goal is often to express contempt.
What is sarcasm?
Element be included when writing a narrative text that give clues as to future events.
What is foreshadowing?
Beowulf vowed to kill this beast.
Who is Grendel?
People are products of their society/society is responsible for whatever happens to its people/the individual is only worth as much as he or she contributes to society.
What is utopia?
"His majesty, who is a most magnanimous prince, ... frequently honored me with his visits, and was pleased to assist my masters in teaching me. We began already to converse together in some sort; and the first words I learnt, were to express my desire “that he would please give me my liberty;” which I every day repeated on my knees." Literary device depicted in excerpt.
What is irony?
“What sort of insects do you rejoice in, where you come from?” the Gnat inquired. “I don’t rejoice in insects at all,” Alice explained, “because I’m rather afraid of them—at least the large kinds. But I can tell you the names of some of them.” Rejoice has a positive one.
What is connotation?
“You propose,” replied I, “to fly from the habitations of man, to dwell in those wilds where the beasts of the field will be your only companions. How can you, who long for the love and sympathy of man, persevere in this exile? You will return and again seek their kindness, and you will meet with their detestation; your evil passions will be renewed, and you will then have a companion to aid you in the task of destruction. This may not be; cease to argue the point, for I cannot consent.” Victor's feelings in this excerpt about creating a companion for the creature.
What is conflicted?
In the tale “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” an adventure featuring one of King Arthur’s knights, he is the protagonist that accepts a dangerous challenge when all others were silent.
Who is Sir Gawain?
"When gentle Una saw the second fall
Of her dear knight, who weary of long fight,
And faint through loss of blood, mov’d not at all,
But lay, as in a dream of deep delight, Besmeared with precious Balme, whose virtuous might Did heal his wounds, and scorching heat allay," from the excerpt, the fate of her dear knight.
What is healed?
Five parts of a narrative essay, similar to the story written in this class.
What are exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution?
“When alone, Safie resolved in her own mind the plan of conduct that it would become her to pursue in this emergency. A residence in Turkey was abhorrent to her; her religion and her feelings were alike averse to it. By some papers of her father which fell into her hands she heard of the exile of her lover and learnt the name of the spot where he then resided. She hesitated some time, but at length she formed her determination." Safie's lover in Frankenstein.
Who is Felix?
"Then came the night of the first falling star. It was seen early in the morning, rushing over Winchester eastward, a line of flame high in the atmosphere. Hundreds must have seen it, and taken it for an ordinary falling star." Foreshadowed event in
The War of the Worlds.