English Final Exam Review
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Abase | to lower in rank, prestige, or esteem |
| Acclimate | to adapt to a new climate, environment, or situation |
| Admonish | to caution or advise against something; to scold mildly; to remind of a duty |
| Adroit | skillful, accomplished, highly competent |
| Affluent | abounding in wealth; prosperous; flowing freely |
| Airy | of air; high in the air; lofty; immaterial; unreal |
| Allay | to calm or pacify, set to rest; to lessen or relieve |
| Appease | to calm; to make satisfied (often only temporarily) |
| Ascertain | determine, make certain, to find out |
| Assuage | to make easier or milder, relieve; to quiet, calm; to put an end to, appease, satisfy, quench |
| Audacity | excessive boldness, rashness, daring, to have temerity |
| Austerity | sternness; severity; strict economy; lack of luxuries |
| Banal | boring, dull, hackneyed |
| Belittle | to make something appear smaller than it is; to refer to in a way that suggests lack of importance or value, put down |
| Castigate | to criticize or reprimand severely, to punish in order to correct |
| Caustic | able to burn or eat away by chemical action; biting, sarcastic, stinging, sharp |
| Chastise | to inflict physical punishment as a means of correction; to scold severely, castigate, reprimand |
| Clandestine | undercover, covert, underground, furtive, top secret, secretive |
| Cliche | an expression that has been overused to the extent that its freshness has worn off, overused, commonplace |
| Concise | short, to the point, straightforward |
| Congruent | being in agreement, harmony, or correspondence; conforming to the circumstances or requirements of a situation |
| Contentious | Tending to argue or strife, quarrelsome; causing, involving, or characterized by argument or controversy |
| Covert | clandestine, furtive, secretive, hidden, undercover |
| Decadence | the act or process of falling into an inferior condition or state; deterioration, decay; moral degeneration or decay; unrestrained and excessive self-indulgence |
| Degrade | to reduce in worth or value; to reduce in stature, rank, or grade; to lower in dignity or esteem; insult |
| Despondent | depressed from loss of hope or confidence; utterly discouraged; sad, without hope |
| Disdain | intense dislike; to treat with scorn or contempt, to reject as unworthy |
| Disparage | to speak of or treat slightingly, depreciate; belittle; to bring reproach or discredit upon, lower the estimation of |
| Dissuade | to advise against, to talk out of, persuade not to |
| Docile | easily taught, led, or managed; obedient, submissive, tractable |
| Dogmatic | opinionated; holding stubbornly to one's opinion; arbitrary; doctrinal |
| Elicit | to draw forth, bring out from some source (such as another person) |
| Emulate | to try to equal or excel; imitate with effort to equal or surpass; to rival with some degree with success |
| Exonerate | to clear from a charge or accusation, acquit |
| Expedite | speed up the progress of, make easy |
| Flagrant | extremely or deliberately shocking or noticeable, scandalous, notorious |
| Fractious | readily angered, peevish, irritable, quarrelsome |
| Furtive | clandestine, secretive, covert |
| Futile | not successful, failing to have any result; useless; unimportant, frivolous |
| Hackneyed | boring, dull, banal |
| Ignominy | great personal dishonor or humiliation; disgraceful conduct, shame |
| Immutable | not mutable, unchangeable, changless |
| Incisive | sharp; keen; perceptive, insightful |
| Incorrigible | incapable of being reformed or improved, uncorrectable |
| Indicative | suggestive; implying; serving to indicate, displaying |
| Insidious | intended to deceive or entrap; sly, treacherous, deceiving |
| Insolent | rudeness, impudence, impertinence, disrespect |
| Insouciant | carefree, without worry or anxiety, nonchalant, casual, unconcerned |
| Irascible | irritable, easily angered, cranky, cross |
| Laconic | concise, using few words, brief, terse, to the point |
| Macabre | grisly, gruesome; horrible, distressing; having death as a subject |
| Magnanimous | generous in forgiving an insult or injury; free from petty resentfulness or vindictiveness |
| Manifest | to show itself, to appear, to prove itself, to make clear, apparent, obvious, evident, clear |
| Meticulous | Precise, accurate, tedious, extremely careful, detailed |
| Mitigate | to make milder or softer, to moderate in force or intensity |
| Mundane | earthly, worldly, relating to practical and material affairs; concerned with what is ordinary |
| Neophyte | freshman, beginner, new, novice, recent convert |
| Nomenclature | a system of names used in an art or science |
| Non Sequitur | a faulty inference or conclusion, a statement that doesn't follow logically that which proceeded it, a reply that has no relevance to that which proceeded it |
| Nuances | slight or subtle difference |
| Obsequious | showing excessive willingness to serve; subservient; fawning |
| Paroxysm | a sudden outburst; a spasm, convulsion, a fit |
| Penchant | a strong inclination or liking, strong attraction |
| Pithy | full of meaning; concise, short, brief, terse |
| Placate | to appease, soothe, pacify |
| Pneumatic | Airy, atmospheric |
| Poignant | affecting or moving the emotions |
| Precarious | Not safe or secure; dangerously uncertain |
| Prosaic | boring, dull, banal, hackneyed, lacking wit or imagination |
| Prudent | wise in handling practical matters, exercising good judgement and common sense |
| Pugnacious | aggressive, confrontational, combative, belligerent, truculent |
| Quixotic | foolishly impractical, extravagantly romantic |
| Reprimand | to scold; find fault with; a rebuke, harsh disapproval |
| Rudimentary | Fundamental, basic, building blocks, not yet fully developed; elementary |
| Subjugate | To conquer by force, bring under complete control |
| Subservient | compliant and obedient to authority |
| Substantiate | verify, authenticate, validate, confirm, corroborate |
| Supercilious | disdainful, contemptuous, patronizing, arrogant, condescending |
| Surreptitious | stealthy, secret, intended to escape observation; made or accomplished by fraud, furtive, covert, clandestine |
| Tenacity | hanging on to something persistently or stubbornly, persistent, firm |
| Terse | Brief, concise, to the point |
| Tractable | obedient, compliant, docile, dutiful |
| Transgression | violation of a law, command; a sin |
| Transient | temporary, fleeting, lasting only for a short time, ephemeral |
| Trite | commonplace; overused, stale, hackneyed |
| Unscathed | unharmed, uninjured |
| Usurp | seize, take over, commandeer |
| Vacant | empty, barren, void of thought or knowledge, unoccupied |
| Vacillate | to fluctuate, hesitate, waver in mind or opinion |
| Vacuous | empty, especially of meaning or purpose, lacking in ideas or meaning |
| Veiled | shielded, muted or unclear, concealed, hidden |
| The theft of someone else's words or ideas, passed off as your own (whether or not this is done deliberately or inadvertently does not matter) is ________________. | plagiarism |
| True or False: To cite sources, you NEED both parenthetical citations and a works cited page. | true |
| Putting an author's ideas into your own words with a citation is known as ____________. | paraphrasing |
| You put the citation for a paraphrased paragraph at ______________ of the paragraph. | the end |
| True or False: You DO NOT need a new page when you switch pages. | false |
| True or False: When you quote the work directly, you DO NOT need a citation. | false |
| To quote a source directly, you place a parenthetical citation _____ the quote instead of the end. | after |
| Where is the "Works Cited" title placed on the page? | in the center, at the top |
| How is the "Works Cited" organized? | alphabetically |
| What is the spacing for the "Works Cited" page? | double spaced |
| Where is the "Works Cited" page located? | last page of work |
| True or False: The "Works Cited" page is on a separate sheet of paper. | true |
| Who were the rulers during Shakespeare's time? | Queen Elizabeth and King James I |
| What was King James I fascinated by? | the occult, witches, ghosts, the supernatural, etc. |
| Who was King James I a descendent of? | Banquo |
| Shakespeare was an _______, a ________, and a _________. | actor, poet, and playwright |
| Aside | a remark spoken by an actor, either to the audience or to another character (but not heard by characters other than the one being addressed) |
| Comic relief | an amusing scene, incident, or speech introduced into serious or tragic elements, as in a play, in order to provide temporary relief from tension, or to intensify the dramatic action. |
| Dramatic Irony | irony is a contrast between what's expected and what's really happening and occurs when the reader or viewer knows something that a character does not know |
| Metaphor | a direct comparison of two unlike things |
| Monologue | a long speech in which the speaker addresses a silent or absent listener in a moment of high intensity or deep emotion (spoken when other characters are on stage) |
| Rhymed Couplet | Two lines that rhyme |
| Simile | A comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as" |
| Soliloquy | a speech in which a character speaks his or her thoughts aloud (actor is alone on stage) |
| Tragedy | a dramatic work that presents the downfall of a dignified character |
| Tragic Flaw | a quality that leads the tragic hero to his or her destruction/demise |
| Tragic Hero | the main character of a tragedy with a tragic flaw (Usually male, of noble birth, and has a tragic flaw) |
| What is Macbeth's tragic flaw? | unchecked ambition, easily manipulated, and a strong desire for power and authority |
| Who does Benjamin symbolize? | cynical and skeptical people (of communism in Russia) ex. "Things will never change." |
| Who does Boxer symbolize? | the proletariats and lower class |
| What do the dogs symbolize? | brutal police force, the secret police/police that follow Napoleon (Stalin) and enforce his rules (plans) |
| Who does Mollie symbolize? | the bourgeoisie and upper class. Likes the luxuries and unnecessary goods |
| Who does Moses symbolize? | Russian Orthodox Church (and possibly Rasputin) |
| Who does Mr. Frederick symbolize? | neighbors (Germany) |
| Who does Mr. Jones symbolize? | Czar Nicholas II, was "abdicated" by the animals |
| Who does Mr. Pilkington symbolize? | the opposition, England |
| Who does Napoleon symbolize? | Stalin |
| Who does Old Major symbolize? | Vladimir Lenin |
| Who does Snowball symbolize? | Leon Trotsky |
| Who does Squealer symbolize? | the public media for Stalin "Pravada" - the Russian newsletter that Stalin sent out |
| What do the windmills represent? | the N.E.P, downfall of capitalism, and Stalin's 5 year plan. |
| What is doublespeak? | A term coined in the US that blends doublethink and newspeak. It refers to language that conceals the true meaning of a word or utterance by making the negative seem positive and diverts the hearer or reader from the consequences of the utterance or speech act. (Deliberately ambiguous or evasive language; any language that pretends to communicate but actually does not.) |
| What does the function of language in 1984 play? | If control of language were centralized in a political agency, Orwell proposes, such an agency could possibly alter the very structure of language to make it impossible to even conceive of disobedient or rebellious thoughts, because there would be no words with which to think them. |
| What does the function of sex in 1984 play? | In 1984, it is a power used against the person who possesses it. The Party forces people to push down their sexual desires. They treating sex as a job-create new Party members. The Party then takes people's pent-up emotion into intense, horrid displays of hatred against the Party's political enemies. These enemies have been invented by the Party expressly for this purpose. The Party uses sex again the person who possess it to control and dominate. |
| What does the "Inner Party" symbolize? | The communist members that supported and stood up for Stalin |
| What does the "Outer Party" symbolize? | middle class |
| What does Mr. Charrington's shop represent? | freedom (gives freedom to Winston because there is no telescreen and is excluded from the rest of Big Brother) |
| What does the paperweight symbolize? | beautiful, safe and secure environment something that has no value except for its beauty A LINK TO THE PAST |
| What do the proles symbolize? | (the proletariats) preserved the essence of life and emotions, middle class, |
| What does Room101 symbolize? | the future of the world one's worst fear/nightmare |
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