English March Exam
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63 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Supercilious | Haughtily disdainful |
| Turbulent | Disturbed |
| Peremptory | Leaving no opportunity for refusal |
| Proprietor | Owner of business establishment |
| Shiftless | Lazy |
| Incredulous | Skeptical |
| Strident | Making or having a harsh sound |
| Innuendo | An indirect intimation about a person or thing |
| Ascertain | Determine |
| Jovial | Joyous humor |
| Malevolent | Wishing evil or harm to others |
| Enjoin | To order to do something |
| Punctilious | Strict in observance of formalities |
| Olfactory | Pertaining to the sense of smell |
| Facade | A superficial appearance of something |
| Laudable | Praiseworthy |
| Meretricious | Alluring by a show of flashy attractions |
| Ineffable | Incapable of being expressed in words |
| Ingratiate | To establish oneself in the favor or good graces of others |
| Dilatory | Slow, tardy |
| Stagnant | Stale or foul |
| Boisterous | Rough and noisy |
| Dejection | Depression |
| Garrulous | Excessively talkative |
| Superfluous | Excessive |
| Marvellous | Excellent |
| Quarrel | Disagree angrily |
| Bickering | Angry quarrel |
| Despise | To regard with disgust |
| Vitality | Exuberant physical strength or mental vigor |
| Dreadful | Extremely bad |
| Acquiescence | Giving tacit assent, agreeing by silence |
| Melodramatic | Exaggerated and emotional |
| Calloused | Insensitive, made hard |
| Evident | Plain or clear to sight or understanding |
| Sentence | Group of words that has a subject, verb, expresses a complete thought, capitalized first letter, and ends with period, question mark, or exclamation point |
| Independent Clause | Group of words that has subject, verb, and expresses a complete thought |
| Dependent Clause | Group of words that has a subject verb, and doesn't express a complete thought |
| How to join independent clauses to form sentence | Use comma and FANBOY, use semicolon, or use colon |
| Comma Splice | Incorrectly joining independent clauses with comma |
| Fragment | Group of words presented as a sentence without subject, verb, or both--and doesn't express a complete thought |
| Run-On Sentence | Incorrectly trying to form sentence by smashing clauses together without correct punctuation |
| Age of Faith | 1650-1750 Puritanism Directed very aspect of their lives Bible would help them through human weakness Hard work, thrift, and responsibility Inflexible in religious faith Intolerant of viewpoints other than their own Led to Salem Witch Trials Jonathan Edwards "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" |
| Age of Reason | 1750-1800 Intellectual energy Question previously accepted truths about who should run government Democracy Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, and Thomas Jefferson |
| Romanticism | 1800-1860 Emphasis on self-knowledge and self-expression Against authority by elite classes Value of individualism Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Thoreau "Age of First Person Singular" Emotional intensity |
| Transcendentalism | Mid-1800s Emerson, Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, W.H. Channing Unity of all matter, human, and natural Emphasized living a simple life Stressed close relationship to nature Celebrated emotions and imagination Stressed individualism and self-reliance Believed intuition can lead to knowledge Believed in inherent goodness in people Encouraged spiritual well-being over financial well-being |
| Realism | 1865-1910 Accurate and detailed portrayal of actual life Didn't want to glorify anything Depict reality no matter how ordinary Shed light on greater social issues Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, Henry James Complex characters in ordinary places Character exploration and development Ordinary settings True-to-life dialogue Detached narration to sound unbiased |
| Regionalism | 1865-1910 Irving, Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe Accurately represent speech, manners, habits, history, folklore, and beliefs of people in specific geographical area Offshoot of realism Importance of setting Use of dialects--distinctive forms of language spoken in particular areas or by particular groups of people |
| Modernism | 1910-1960 Ezra Pound was father of modernism Freud, Marx, Darwin, and Nietzsche, TS Eliot Stream-of-consciousness narration Allusions Concerned with accelerating pace of society toward destruction and meaninglessness What could inspire construction for a new society |
| Imagism | 1909-1918 Focus on raw image Forgets metrics, stanzas, and sentimentality Power of suggestion rather than definite statement Eastern influence of the haiku Expressing emotion indirectly but precisely Presenting images without authorial commentary Ezra Pound Use no words that don't contribute No sequence of metronome |
| Harlem Renaissance | 1918-1929 Cultural center of African-American life Produce unique forms of expressing Harlem WEB Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson, Charles S Johnson, Langston Hughes Promote equality New Negro: sophisticated and well-educated African American with strong racial pride and self awareness Ended by economic collapse of Great Depression |
| The Scarlet Letter | 1600s, Boston Narrated by Customs Officer Hester, Chillingworth, Dimmesdale, Pearl Mistress Hibbins--Governor's Sister, Witch Hester--Seamstress, Able, Wears Gray Chillingworth--Fake Doctor, Poisons Dimmesdale Themes: Sin, Nature of Evil (Black Man), Identity in Society, Civilization vs. Wilderness, Night versus Day, Scarlet Letter, Meteor, Pearl |
| The Great Gatsby | 1920s, New York Narrated by Nick Carraway Gatsby, Nick, Daisy, Tom Themes: American Dream, Hollowness of Upper Class, East vs West Egg, Green Light, Valley of Ashes, Eyes, |
| Theme | Central idea, message, or lesson underlying a literary work |
| Motif | A recurring idea, symbol, thing, concept in a novel that helps the reader to better understand the meaning behind the novel |
| Tone | The author's attitude toward the subject and toward the audience implied in a work. Helps to establish the mood of the poem. |
| Symbol | A concrete person, place, object, animal, or activity that has a concrete meaning in itself and also stands for something beyond itself, such as an idea or feeling |
| Metaphor | Implied comparison between two things that does not use like or as |
| Personification | A description of an object, animal, place, or idea in human terms |
| Simile | Comparison between two things containing the words like or as |
| Hyperbole | Exaggeration or overstatement |
| Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds in words |
| Free Verse | Poetry with no regular meter or rhyme scheme |
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