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Praxis II
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Undergraduate 4
06/08/2009

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Conceit
Definition
Extended comparison of 2 dissimilar things
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Cosmic Irony
Definition
Reveals human beings to be at the mercy of a cruel fate
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Structural Irony
Definition
Central character has naive view contrary to knowledge of other characters/audience
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Satire
Definition
Ridicules human failing (Gulliever's Travels)
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Paradox
Definition
Contradictory statement that may be true
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Elegy
Definition
Couplets that have 2 lines with rhyming at the end
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Shakesperian Sonnet
Definition
14 lines, 3 quatrains, couplet
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Tennesse Williams
Definition
Streetcar Named Desire
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Lorraine Hansberry
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A Raisin in the Sun
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Thorton Wilder
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Our Town
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Edward Albee
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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Neil Simon
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The Odd Couple
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Homer
Definition
The Illiad, The Odyssey - Dactylic hexameter, unrhymed
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Metamorphoses
Definition
Ovid- Dactylic hexameter, Roman history and myths
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William Wodsworth
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Romanticism
-Lyrical Balads
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Christopher Marlowe
Definition
Renaissance
-Dr. Faustus
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Jonathan Swift
Definition
Reformation
-Gulliver's Travels
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John Donne
Definition
The Flea
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Definition
Romantic
-Rime of the Ancient Mariner
-Tintern Abbey
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John Miton
Definition
Reformation
-Paradise Lost
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Charles Dickens
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Victorian
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Edmund Spenser
Definition
Renaissance
-The Farie Queen
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Definition
Victorian
-The Sonnets from the Portuguese
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John Keats
Definition
Romantic
-Ode to Autumn
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Definition
Victorain
-Sherlock Holmes
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William Blake
Definition
Songs of Innocence/Experience
The Tyger
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Brahm Stoker
Definition
Victorian
-Dracula
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Lord Alfred Tennyson
Definition
Victorian
-Charge of the Light Brigade
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Sir Thomas Malory
Definition
Arthurian Legends
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Definition
Romanticsm
-To the West Wind
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Metaphysical Poets
Definition
17th C.
-Intellect rather than emotions
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Robert Frost
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The Road Not Taken
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Definition
The Great Gatsby
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T.S Elliot
Definition
The Waste Land
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E.E Cummings
Definition
Poet of the 20th C.
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William Faulkner
Definition
Steam of Consciousness
-The Sound and the Fury
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Willa Cather
Definition
Pioneering life of the 20th C.
-My Antonia
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Gertrude Stein
Definition
Tender Buttons
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John Steinbeck
Definition
Depression of the 1930's
-Of Mice and Men
-The Grapes of Wrath
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Stephen Crane
Definition
Red Badge of Courage
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James F. Cooper
Definition
The Last of the Mohicans
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Definition
Life in abolition
-Sketches of Southern Life
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Henry Wadsworth Longellow
Definition
-Poet of the 1800's
-Haiwatha
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Nataniel Hawthorne
Definition
Puritan era
-Scarlet Letter
-House of the Seven Gables
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Walt Whitman
Definition
The Song of Myself
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Jack London
Definition
Call of the Wild
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John Winthrop
Definition
Manifest destiny
-On Liberty
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Washington Irving
Definition
Sleepy Hollow
-Rip Van Winkle
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Harlem Renaissance
Definition
1919-1935
-Langston Hughes
-Zora Neil Hurston
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Pronoun as Predicate Noun
Definition
She IS the person who prank called us.
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Essential Adjective Clause
Definition
The cookies THAT I MADE are... (modifier)
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Non-Essential Adjective Clause
Definition
Robert, WHO IS NICE, is... (Modifier w/ commas)
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Predicate Nominative
Definition
My apartment is A PLACE THAT IS SMALL.
-Follows "is"
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Noun Clause as Predicate Nominative
Definition
Running on pavement is WHAT MY DOCTORS FORBADE.
-Follows "is", begins with "what"
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Apposotive
Definition
Tonie, a greek girl, is...
-classifies noun (Tonie)
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Noun Clause as an Indirect Object
Definition
I'd like to order WHATEVER I WANT.
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Compounding
Definition
-a word that consists of 2 independent words
-"Loud speaker"
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Antecedent
Definition
-A word or phrase that a subsequent word refers back to
-I'll give this to MARY when I see her.
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Semicolons
Definition
Links independent clauses that do not have conjunctions
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Present Participles
Definition
-End in "ing" and used with "be" to indicate continuing action or state
-I am going.
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Past Participle
Definition
-End in -ed, -en, -d, -t, -n
-Used with "have"
-Used with "be to form passive voice
-The ball was kicked.
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Homographs
Definition
Bear (animal) and bear (tolerate)
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Homophones
Definition
Their and there
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Pragmatics
Definition
Study of what something actually means
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Syntax
Definition
Rules of sentence formation
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Cognate
Definition
Words that have same linguistic origin or root
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Metonymy
Definition
White house= government
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Inflectional morphemes
Definition
Indicates number, tense, person, rate
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Derivational Morpheme
Definition
Derivations of words
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Transcendentalism
Definition
Emerson, Whitman, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Holmes
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Anapestic meter
Definition
Limerick
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Aphorism
Definition
Wise saying
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Caesura
Definition
Break in rhythm of language
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Couplet
Definition
Stanza of two rhyming lines
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Enjambment
Definition
Run-on line poetry where one line ends and continues onto the next line to complete meaning
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Iambic Foot
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Trochaic Foot
Definition
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Anapestic Foot
Definition
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Dactylic Foot
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Heroic Couplet
Definition
Pair of lines of poetic verse in iambic pentameter
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Rhetoric
Definition
Persuasive writing
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