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anthropomorphismanimate being or an inanimate object ✔✔a device in which the writer attributes human characteristics to an
anxiety of influenceearlier influences of a previous generation of poets ✔✔literary critic Harold Bloom's theory that poets struggle against the
apostrophe ✔✔a turn from the general audience to address a specific group of persons dactylunstressed ✔✔a metrical foot of three syllables in which the first is stressed and the next two are
dialogicdialogue with other works of literature and other authors ✔✔a literary theory term that advances the idea that works of literature carry on a
archaic dictionthus ✔✔old-fashioned words that are no longer used in common speech. e.g. thee, thy,
colloquialisms"wicked awesome" ✔✔expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions such as
doublespeak ✔✔language that intentionally distorts or disguises meaning epithetfather of psychology (Sigmund Freud) ✔✔a descriptive phrase or word frequently used to characterize a person or thing. e.g. the
euphemismtheir lives" instead of killed ✔✔a word or phrase that substitutes for an offensive or suggestive one. e.g. "lost
iambic ✔✔unstressed, stressed trochaic ✔✔stressed, unstressed anapestic ✔✔unstressed, unstressed, stressed
spondee ✔✔a metrical foot consisting of two syllables, both of which are stressed vernacular ✔✔language spoken by people who live in a particular region limerick ✔✔a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme of aabba pastoral ✔✔a poem that depicts life in an idyllic, idealized way sonnet ✔✔a 14 line poem usually written in iambic pentameter with a varied rhyme scheme homer ✔✔author of the Iliad sophocles ✔✔author of Oedipus Virgil ✔✔author of The Aenid
Ovid ✔✔author of Metamorphoses Plato ✔✔author of The Republic Dante ✔✔author of Inferno Shikubu ✔✔author of The Tale of Genji petrarch ✔✔author of Canozoniere Martin Luther ✔✔author of Speech at the Diet of the Worms de Cervante ✔✔author of Don Quixote voltaire ✔✔author of Candide dostoevsky ✔✔author of Crime and Punishment
Alexander Pope ✔✔author of The Rape of the Lock (a mock epic) KeatsLooking into Chapman's Homer ✔✔a romantic poet who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes, Ode to a Grecian Urn, and On First
Wordsworth ✔✔a romantic poet who wrote Lyrical Ballads Coleridge ✔✔a romantic poet who wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan charles dickens ✔✔author of Great Expectations charlotte bronte ✔✔author of Jane Eyre oscar wilde ✔✔author of The Importance of Being Earnest carroll ✔✔author of Alice in Wonderland bunyan ✔✔author of The Pilgrim's Process, a puritan period piece of American Literature
naturalismexamined through a scientist's microscope. e.g. Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, and John ✔✔a literary movement that claimed to portray life exactly as if it were being Steinbeck transcendentalismindividual can reach ultimate truths through spiritual intuition. e.g. Ralph Waldo Emerson and ✔✔a movement in the romantic tradition that advanced the idea that every Henry David Thoreau bloom's taxonomy ✔✔knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, evaluation activating prior knowledgeanticipation guides ✔✔using a concrete experience or object, pretesting, discussions,
metacognitionown thinking ✔✔a person's ability to think about his or her own thinking and regulate his or her
SQ3R ✔✔a note taking method (survey, question, read, recite, review)
compound/complex sentencemore dependent clauses ✔✔a sentence with two or more independent classes and one or
gerund phrasefunctions as a noun ✔✔a phrase made up of a present participle (a verb ending in -ing) and always
connotationsuggestions related to that word ✔✔refers to the associations that are connected to a certain word or the emotional
denotationthe word suggests ✔✔the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that
subject writingmeaning of the subject being written about ✔✔students write interviews, accounts, profiles, or descriptions to capture the
expository ✔✔speech or written form in which one explains or describes erik erikson ✔✔eight stages of human development
lawrence kohlberg ✔✔idea of moral development abraham maslow ✔✔came up with the hierarchy of needs jean piaget ✔✔came up with the stages of cognitive development B.F. Skinner ✔✔responsible for the theory of operant conditioning Lev Vygotsky ✔✔idea of zone of proximal development Howard Gardner ✔✔idea of multiple intelligences Nitza Hidalgo ✔✔three levels of culture Luis Moll ✔✔funds of knowledge
