The Color Purple
The characters that Celie is united with at the end of the novel
Who are Nettie and her children?
Term that means "the distinctive pronunciation of a language that is specific to a region or group of people."
What is accent?
The element referring to the speaker’s credibility, authority, and character
What is Ethos?
A specialized term that emerged out of the early twentieth century critical approach, New Criticism
What is Close Reading?
The literary theory that says to analyze a text by its formal devices
What is Formalism?
The creature that Celie says all men look like to her.
What are frogs?
The chart (alphabet) linguists use to represent the distinct sounds in a language
What is the International Phonetic Alphabet?
The organization responsible for codifying the values and standards of Rhetoric and Composition, as well as attending to administration and compensation issues for writing programs and instructors
What is the Conference on College Composition and Communication (4 C's or CCCC's)?
To establish a text’s place in the canon of literature, experts evaluate what 3 things?
Value, impact, originality
The critical approach that holds the belief that "objective meaning exists and critics and scholars hold responsibility for discovering it"
What is Structuralism?
Character that dies in Africa after accepting a truth that she had been denying.
Who is Corrine?
The attempt to analyze and explain objectively how language is used
What is descriptivism?
What is genre according to Dirk's "Navigating Genres" piece?
"a response to a repeated rhetorical situation"
the rules or patterns the text follows to respond to a recurrent rhetorical situation.
Which genres are the oldest forms of literature, existing over 2,000 years?
Poetry and Drama
Name one reason that a scholar might object to the influence of Critical theory.
A novel written entirely of letters
What is an Epistolary Novel?
The study of the rules governing the way words are combined to form phrases, clauses, and sentences
What is Syntax?
Name one of three impacts that Rhetoric and Composition had once it came to be housed in English departments.
1. It helped to secure smaller class sizes for English professors, 2. It helped English departments to advocate for stronger compensation packages for graduate students, adjuncts, and faculty and 3. It established English as a department through which every university student would pass on their path toward completing a degree
How does Katherine Acheson define a close reading thesis in WEL (quote)?
“a clearly written argument, based on evidence , about the meaning, power, or structure of a work or works.”
What is the main advantage of using critical theory in English Studies
It allows us to see a range of texts in many new ways.
What does Adam do to prove his love to Tashi towards the end of the book?
He scars his face to match her scars.
The device built in 15th century that contributed to layman being able to access books and literacy.
What is the Printing Press?
The major area influencing the evolution of the field of rhetoric and composition in the 1960s and 1970s.
Name one reason (from the IES book) that studying literature is worthwhile.
The field from which critical theory originates (at least in part)
Linguistics