Cave New World
Truth and Lies
i do werds gud.
Essay/ I Say
Into the Senior-verse
100

A system of ideas and moral ideals, especially one which forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy and also shapes one’s worldview

ideology

100

Name the vocab word: When Douglass talks to the sailboats in the Chesapeake Bay, lamenting how they are free and he is not.

soliliquoy/apostrophe

100

Name that vocab word: "lend me your ears"

synecdoche 

100

When a person changes how they speak as they move between different discourses, it is called...

code-switching

100

How many snow days did we have this school year?

4

125
Often the first step in systematic oppression, this tactic involves treating someone (or a group) as unworthy of being treated like a person.  This was our first vocabulary word of the year.

dehumanization.

125

In Ernest Hemingway's Hills Like White Elephants, what do the hills like white elephants symbolize?

The female character's unborn child

125

Name that literary device:

"A bookworm and a treehugger get into a fender bender..."

Kennings

125

What does the M in the BEAM taxonomy stand for?

Method sources

125

In Frederick Douglass' autobiography, what does Captain Auld demand that his wife stop doing?

Teaching Douglass to read.

150
Paulo Freire proposed two models of education- the Oppressive model, in which teachers are experts and students passively absorb and recite information, and the Liberatory model, in which teachers pose questions and students work to solve problems.  What was the name of his book?

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

150

Who said, "Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me!"

Sojourner Truth

150

Name that vocab word: "when the going gets tough, the tough get going"

chiasmus

150

What is the term for a way of commenting on your claims in an essay and telling others how-and how not- to think about them.

metacommentary

150

In the movie The Truman Show, Truman's hometown, job, wife, and best friend were all fake.  Untethered to any prior reality, Truman's life is an example of which vocabulary word?

simulacrum

200

Fill in the blank (200 pts per blank): "You can't play ______ according to the rules of                "

"You can't play Electro-magnetic Golf according to the rules of Centrifugal Bumble-puppy"

200

An attitude or belief that Europe was/is the primary engine and architect of world history, the bearer of universal values and reason, and the pinnacle and therefore model of progress and development.

Eurocentrism

200

Name 2 literary techniques that are hallmarks of Emily Dickinson's writing style.

Caesura

Slant rhymes

200
Name at least 2 reasons why there are different dialects in the U.S.

Geographical isolation, settlement patterns, class difference, racial difference, immigration.

200

1. What college/university did Mr. Riess attend for his Bachelor's degree? (200 points)

2. Which college/university did Mr. Riess attend for his Master's degree? (200 points)

1. Keene State College

2. Carnegie Mellon University

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