Literature "isms"
James Joyce and Virginia Woolf were authors from the modernist period and their work often included a style in which the narrator's thoughts are presented in a string of ideas without stopping called this.
What is stream of consciousness?
This is the word for the original noun replaced with a pronoun after it has been established.
What is an antecedent?
The number of discussion points in the thesis statement that should be supported in the body of an expository essay.
What is three?
This style of writing would be used for a cover letter when applying for a job.
What is formal writing?
Elizabethan authors often use these examples of figurative language to compare the object of the writer's desire to various flowers, goddesses, and other symbols of beauty and virtue—particularly those found in nature.
What are similes and metaphors?
This literary period is known to include the blending of reality with supernatural elements, a break with traditional literary forms, and absurdist situations.
What is postmodernism?
What are point of view, singular forms of words, and plural forms of words?
This statement is often the last sentence of an introductory paragraph in an expository essay.
What is a thesis statement?
This style of writing used shorter and simpler sentences without too much variety.
What is informal writing?
Shakespeare's sonnets have this many lines and this meter.
What are 14 and iambic pentameter?
This literary ism views humans as flawed and inherently sinful.
What is neoclassicism?
The words everyone and everybody indicate many people but are still this type of pronoun.
What is singular indefinite?
This type of expository text includes two things that have similarities and differences.
What is a compare and contrast essay?
This point of view is used for informal writing.
What is first-person point of view (I, me, we, etc)?
These three things are important when considerig the historical context of a piece. of literature.
What are major world events (like war), the accepted norms of the society, and the philosophies and ideas in the society? FYI-the names of important landmarks in the society are not important but they are interesting.
This literary "ism" differs from Romanticism because these authors turned their values into a way of life instead of just a guide for writing.
What is Transcendentalism?
These words are used to create sentences that flow smoothy from one to the next, rather than choppy, abrupt sentences and the repeating of nouns.
What are pronouns?
This type of expository writing means the writing is for informational purposes only.
What is objective writing?
This style of writing might include a humorous look at Shakespeare or an email to a friend about your summer plans.
What is informal writing?
Christopher Marlowe is recognized as the first Elizabethan author to use this in drama.
What is blank verse?
This literary period is known for spirituality, a focus on nature, and emotions and intuition over logic but it is NOT known for the importance of society.
What is Romanticism?
There is a vague pronoun in the following sentence and can be fixed with this correction. When the waiter placed the pizza, calzone, and hoagie on the table, Eric could not believe how delicious it looked.
What is "it" and we change it to "they?"
This type of expository writing may include the author's opinions, views, and understanding of the information but this opinion is still from accurate and reliable information.
What is subjective, expository writing?
The main factors in determining the level of formality necessary for a piece of writing are these three things.
What are purpose, audience, and task?
Elizabethan literature often included these three themes.
What are knighted chivalry, the search for knowledge and beauty, and love or romance?