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English final
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Imagery | Using "figure of speech... to express abstract ideas in a vivid and innovative way" usually includes simile, personification, and descriptive language. |
| Irony | Contradiction...between appearance or expectation and reality. |
| Alliteration | The repetition of [constant] sounds in a sequence of words. |
| Metaphor | A figure of speech.... that associates two distinct things; the representation of one thing by another. |
| Symbol | something that stands in for a greater or more complicated idea. |
| Stanza | A grouped set of lines in a poem, usually physically set off from others such clusters by a blank line. |
| Speaker | The narrator of a poem, often (though not always) distinct from the author. |
| Rhyme scheme | The pattern of rhyme n a poem |
| Simile | A figure of speech that compares two distinct things by using words such as like or as |
| Tone | The attitude of the author toward the reader or subject matter of literary work [it] may be serious, playful, mocking, angry, commanding, apologetic, and so forth. |
| Falling action | The part of the plot following the climax, often leading to the resolution. |
| Plot | The event in a narrative |
| Climax | "The point of greatest tension of emotional intensity in a plot". Also, the point of change that starts the resolution of conflict. |
| Rising Action | Introductory events in a narrative, including those that"[give] rise to the conflict. |
| Character | A person in a literary work |
| Setting | The background for a literary work, including " place, historical time, and social mileu" |
| Point of view | "The vantage point from which a narrative is told"; usually divided into first- person or third-person narratives. |
| Aesthetics | The study of beauty and its relationship with human culture, typically applied to the fine preforming arts |
| Christian intellectual tradition | The expansive community of thinkers that producing scholarship that describes the world and humanity's place in it through the lens of orthodox theology. |
| Core curriculum | Also called "general education" the set of course that a common or "core" set of experiences. |
| Cultural empathy | Sensitivity to other cultures that seeks to build relationships among people and is facilitated by the application of liberal learning to cultures alien to the learner. |
| Data Hermeneutics | Similar to the hermeneutics of text, data hermeneutics explores how observers bias and presuppositions influence how scientific data are interpreted. |
| Education | The process of passing intellectual, spiritual, and cultural values across generation. |
| General revelation | The theological proposition that God has revealed himself to humankind through the created world, allowing even those who do not have full, or special revelation t have insights about the nature and person of God |
| Global traditions | The interconnectedness of culture from around the world that is facilitated by technology, ease of travel, and Signiant immigration opportunities. |
| Hermeneutics | Formal approaches to interpreting texts, particularly the scriptures, by attempting to connect the author's meaning with the perceived meaning of the reader. |
| Intentional fallacy | In hermeneutics, the belief that the writer's intent for a written work is irrelevant because it is outside the text. The shifts the authority over a text's meaning from the writer to the reader |
| Multicultural relativism | the view that no culture is superior to any other culture, so all cultures are relatively equal even in the area of ethics, and no one can claim that any culture's values are faulty. |
| Narrative | Stories that are told to describe human experiences. |
| Postmodernism | The philosophical movement in many academic disciplines away from the modern explanations of the world, including the existence of objective truth and transcendent menaning. |
| Pragmatism | The philosophical school of thought that elevates the practical and the immediate as the highest good, over (and sometimes against) other considerations, including morality. |
| Proofs | Mathematical analyses of problems that produce consistent results; proofs may be built upon to provide further proofs, establishing and efficient methodology for exploration the universe. |
| Quadrivium | In traditional liberal arts, the four subjects (arithmetic, astronomy, music, and geometry) that built on trivium to describe how the universe is ordered and function. |
| Scientific materialism | The philosophical school of thought that because the martial world is the only part of the universe that may be measured, it is the only realm of objection knowledge. this view elevates the scientific method as the "gold standard" for describing to hold |
| Social Darwinism | The application of Charles Darwin's survival of the fittest to human culutur, proposing that some culuters are more advanced than others ans that they should be allowed to hold authority over culutre thatare less sophisticated. |
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