english midterm RCHS Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
Semicolon | used instead of a period to connect two independent clauses or in complex lists |
phrase | has no subject and verb |
clause | has subject and verb |
clause with the word that | noun clause |
subordinating words | also, while, as, if, when, because, that |
adverbial phrase | uses when or how |
participial phrase | EX. LOOKING AT THE LATEST ISSUE OF COSMO, the man who always sits in the back of the bus began to hum to himself a song from a strip tease act. |
signified | concept |
signifier | sound image |
sign | combination of signifier and signified or concept and sound image |
why language is only made of negatives | all words say is that this thing is not everything else |
parole | individual utterances |
old english | 450-1150 based on old low German, slows down english's evolution |
middle english | 1150-1500 based on French |
modern english | 1500 on based on Latin |
purpose of language | communication exertion of power |
Romantic poetry years | 1770-1850 |
reaction to | rationalism, objectivity, the enlightenment |
themes of romantic poetry | nature, remembered childhood, unrequited love, individualism, self fulfillment, growth through expierience, libery/freedom, exotic |
first generation poets | William Blake, Robert Burns, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
manerism | after figuring out how something was done the first time, copies it |
second generation poets | Lord Gordon, George Byron, John Keats, Percy Byssle Shelley |
revenge tragedy | roots in seneca, has exaggerated rhetoric, bloodthirsty details, ghosts and magic, thyests |
Arristotle's tragedy | anagorisis, perapetia, inspires fear and pity, switch from good to bad, no double plot, complex plot |
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