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LITERARY TERMS
LITERARY TERMS
PERIODS OF AM LIT
RESEARCH AND THE WRITING PROCESS
USAGE AND CONVENTIONS
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A technique used by writers such as Patrick Henry, suggestion that their arguments make the answer obvious or self-evident. These questions do not require a reply.
What is a rhetorical question?
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A character in the story who speaks directly to us and uses I
What is First Person Point of View?
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This period of American literature reflects a sense of disillusionment and loss of faith in the American dream.
What is Modernism?
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The use of another's words or ideas, whether intentional or unintentional, and claiming them as your own.
What is plagiarism?
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When they finally breached the walls of Massada in A.D. 73. The Romans were amazed at what they found. Identify the error in the sentence/passage.
What is a sentence fragment?
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A writer's attitude toward his subject, communicated through diction, choice of details, or ditect statements of his or her position. It reflects the feelings of the writer.
What is tone?
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The author uses descriptive or figurative language to create word pictures for the reader.
What is imagery?
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"He tried to poke them together again, but in spite of the tenseness of the effort, his shivering got away with him and the twigs were hopelessly scattered. Each twig gushed a puff of smoke and went out." In this passage from the _____ period, the writer views life as a losing battle against an uncaring universe.
What is Naturalism?
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Brainstorming, diagramming your thoughts with a web or other visual aid, and outlining those ideas for a writing activity.
What is prewriting?
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Nearly fifty years later Lewis Keller bought the Oakhurst property, and he was a golf lover. Rewrite this sentence to correct faulty structure and coordination.
What is Nearly fifty years later, Lewis Keller, a golf lover, bought the Oakhurst property.
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A technique characterized by Whitman, as seen in this line: " Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I give them the same, I receive them the same." It is a list of people, things, or attributes.
What is catalog?
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The audience or reader knows information that the characters do not know.
What is dramatic irony?
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Writers from this time period, including Jonathan Edwards, William Bradford, and Anne Bradstreet, share religious enlightenment and provide a history of the time.
Who are Puritan writers?
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This usually appears at the end of your first paragraph in a research paper, and should cover only what you will discuss in your paper.
What is a thesis statement?
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The python is such a pest in The Everglades National Park that it has become necessary to find ways to eradicate their population in order to insure the survival of other species.
What is their? (Its)
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The use of similar grammatical constructions to express ideas that are related. An examples is seen in Whitman's poem "I Hear America Singing" as he uses the gerund phrases: I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear, Those of mechanics, each one singinghis as it should be blithe and strong, The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam, The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work,
What is parallelism?
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"Small yellow creatures bob like dandelions in the field," is an example of the use of what literary device.
What is a Simile?
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Works of this period included political statements, pamphlets, letters, and the like. Major writers during this time period, Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry, and Benjamin Franklin, were concerned with government and society.
What is Rationalism (Colonial Period)?
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A. Because of itsuse of a variety of livestock, cheese-making has been of primary economic importance for hundreds of years in the Netherlands, France, Italy, and Switzerland. B. Cheese-making probably originated soon after men first obtained milk from wild or domesticated animals. C. Hundreds of varieties of cheese are made from the nilk of cows, goats, sheep, water buffalo, mares, llamas, and yaks. D. Many years ago, humans discovered that cheese could be made from the curd formed when milk coagulates. Choose the best order for these details in a paragraph.
What is D,B,C,A?
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Taylor had the ___________grades in school. Complete this sentence using the superlative form of the word
What is Best?
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In "Waldlen," Thoreau writes, "I am not as wise as the day I was born." This is an example of a rhetorical strategy know as a ____,which seems to contradict itself but suggests an important truth.
What is a paradox?
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A lengthy comparison between two unlike things without using the words like or as.
What is an extended metaphor?
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A new type of poetry characterized by common speech, exact words, precise, clear pictures.
What is Imagism (Imagist poetry)?
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A. Because of itsuse of a variety of livestock, cheese-making has been of primary economic importance for hundreds of years in the Netherlands, France, Italy, and Switzerland. B. Cheese-making probably originated soon after men first obtained milk from wild or domesticated animals. C. Hundreds of varieties of cheese are made from the nilk of cows, goats, sheep, water buffalo, mares, llamas, and yaks. D. Many years ago, humans discovered that cheese could be made from the curd formed when milk coagulates. From these details, what is the best thesis? A. In modern factories, cheese is mass-produced according to standardized recipes and techniques. B. Cheese is a highly nutritious food that can be used in a variety of ways. C. Cheese is a milk product that has a long history, a wide distribution, and considerable economic importance.
What is C?
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Original sources of information; anything from firsthand documents, such as poems, diaries, court records, documents, and interviews to research results generated by experiments, surveys, etc.
What are Primary sources?