Vocabulary I
The fact of being who you are
What is identity?
What is perception?
Main theme for this course
What is Coming-of-Age?
Two sided
What is dialectical?
Part of speech that includes word such as "hive," "Charles," "Alpharetta"
What are nouns?
Passive recipient of a message or piece of media
Who or What is the audience?
Ancestry, family tree, line of descent
What is Genealogy?
The author of Jane Eyre
Who is Charlotte Bronte?
Genre associated with adolescents, teenagers, and occasionally 20-somethings
Teen Drama/Young Adult
Identify the subject of this sentence:
"Tom and Martha went to the store to collect seasonings."
Who are Tom and Martha?
To touch someone's feelings
What is affect?
Doing the most, extra, extreme
What is gratuitous?
Three other core themes of this course
What are identity, media production and consumption, and friendship?
Film or tv media form that uses aural cues and heightened emotions and affect
What is melodrama?
Identify the subject of this sentence:
"Steer clear of the witch's forest."
Who are you?
A set of principles underlying and guiding the work of a particular artist and or movement
What are aesthetics?
The Opps, battle, oppositional,
What is an antagonism?
Science fiction term for an idea, person, place etc that causes cognitive estrangement
What is a novum?
"Bloodchild,"Twilight, and Jane Eyre make sense under this approach to studying genre
What is syntactic approach to genre?
Identify what type of verb the predicate of this statement is.
"To live a facade is to always be someone your not.
What is a linking verb?
Jane Eyre portraying the gender roles of women during the Victorian Era.
What is a representation?
outlandish, unconventional, weird
What is queer?
Two alien species from the short story "Bloodchild"
Who are the Tlic and Terrans?
Aesthetic style with emphasis on the dramatic, artificial, vapid,
playful seriousness
Twilight, Scream, Riverdale
What is camp?
"When they enter into the light"
is an example of a __________.
What is a clause?