Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
147 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
furtive
|
done in a stealthy/secretive manner
|
|
|
heinous
|
hatefully or shockingly evil
|
|
|
hypercritical
|
overally critical; too severe in judgement
|
|
|
inert
|
having no power to act or move; inactive
|
|
|
latent
|
present, but not active; hidden
|
|
|
mundane
|
of this world and not of heaven; common, worldly; not spiritual
|
|
|
novice
|
beginner; one who is inexperienced or new
|
|
|
omniscient
|
having unlimited knowledge, knowing everything
|
|
|
precocious
|
developed earlier than usual, especially mental
|
|
|
remorse
|
deep regret for a sin or wrongdoing
|
|
|
terse
|
brief, to the point
|
|
|
gamut
|
the whole range or extent
|
|
|
heresy
|
a religious belief opposed to the established doctrine
|
|
|
impeccable
|
faultless; without sin or blemish
|
|
|
inscrutable
|
cannot be easily understood; mysterious
|
|
|
laudable
|
worthy of praise; commendable
|
|
|
murky
|
gloomy, dark, cloudy
|
|
|
nuance
|
delicate variation in tone, color, meaning, expression
|
|
|
ostensible
|
apparent; pretended; professed
|
|
|
predatory
|
inclined to rob or prey on others
|
|
|
renegade
|
one who deserts a cause and goes to the other side; traitor
|
|
|
uncanny
|
weird, strange; mysterious; acute
|
|
|
genial
|
warm, friendly
|
|
|
hoax
|
practical joke
|
|
|
inane
|
without sense or meaning
|
|
|
insipid
|
without favor; tastless; dull; lifeless
|
|
|
lethargy
|
lack of energy
|
|
|
myriad
|
very large number, highly varied in nature
|
|
|
obese
|
extremely fat
|
|
|
ostracize
|
to banish; to shut out from a group or society by common consent
|
|
|
prowess
|
unusual skill or ability; heroism in battle
|
|
|
retribution
|
deserved punishment
|
|
|
verbose
|
using more words than necessary
|
|
|
gregorious
|
fond of the company of others
|
|
|
humility
|
absense of vanity
|
|
|
incognito
|
hiding one's name, rank, position; disguised
|
|
|
intrepid
|
without fear; brave
|
|
|
levity
|
lightness of gaiety of disposition; lack of seriousness
|
|
|
naive
|
simple in nature; not affected; childlike
|
|
|
officious
|
offering unnecessary and unwanted advice/service
|
|
|
penitent
|
expressing sorrow for having sinned or done wrong
|
|
|
rabble
|
a disorderly crowd, a mob; lowest class
|
|
|
sanction
|
permission, support; to give approval too
|
|
|
vindicate
|
to clear of guilt or blame
|
|
|
harangue
|
a long, noisy speech or lecture
|
|
|
hurtle
|
to dash
|
|
|
indiscreet
|
not wise or judicious
|
|
|
jaundiced
|
prejudiced, cynical
|
|
|
meticulous
|
extremely careful about small details
|
|
|
nocturnal
|
having to do with the night
|
|
|
omnious
|
threatening; predicting evil
|
|
|
pertinent
|
having to do with what is considered
|
|
|
rabid
|
intense; furious or raging
|
|
|
scourge
|
a person or thing which causes great trouble/ misfortune
|
|
|
vindictive
|
seeking revenge
|
|
|
The Great Gatsby
|
F. Scott Fitzgerald
|
|
|
"Any Human to Another"
|
Countee Cullen
|
|
|
The Glass Menagerie
|
Tennessee Williams
|
|
|
Black Boy
|
Richard Wright
|
|
|
The Crucible
|
Arthur Miller
|
|
|
As I Lay Dying
|
William Faulkner
|
|
|
"I, too Sing America"
|
Langston Hughes
|
|
|
"Mending Wall"
|
Robert Frost
|
|
|
Somewhere I have travelled, gladly beyond
|
E.E. Cummings
|
|
|
A Farewell To Arms
|
Ernest Hemingway
|
|
|
Their Eyes Were Watching God
|
Zora Neal Hurston
|
|
|
Our Town
|
Thorton Wilder
|
|
|
Invisible Man
|
Ralph Ellison
|
|
|
Hiroshima
|
John Hersey
|
|
|
The Love Songs of J. Alfred Prufrock
|
T.S. Elliot
|
|
|
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
|
Langston Hughes
|
|
|
Home Burial
|
Robert Frost
|
|
|
epicenter of Harlem Renaissance
|
Harlem, New York
|
|
|
End of the Harlem Renaissance
|
Harlem Race Riot
|
|
|
Causes of the Great Migration
|
blacks went up northday because whites went to war and blacks had more opportunities in the North
|
|
|
Sputnik
|
Soviet Union rocket into space
|
|
|
mone landing
|
1969- american landed
|
|
|
liberals names
|
reds, commies, pincos during MacArthur era
|
|
|
50's
|
no colored tv
|
|
|
Korean War
|
1950-1953
|
|
|
"Formula"
|
verbal irony
|
|
|
How does Gatsby make his money
|
bootlegging
|
|
|
What does Logan do for a living
|
potato farm
|
|
|
When was Their Eyes Were Watching God published
|
1937
|
|
|
where was wilsons body found in the great gatsby
|
in the grass
|
|
|
name of that lake that overflows in their eyes were watching god
|
okechobee
|
|
|
What is Jay Gatsbys real name
|
Jay Gatz
|
|
|
Author of Black Boy
|
Richard Wright
|
|
|
Name of the town in 'Our Town'
|
Grover's Corners
|
|
|
What happens to Joe Crowell in Our Town
|
dies in war
|
|
|
When does Janie think God is playing a trick on her
|
When Tea Cake gets sick
|
|
|
What year in The Great Gatsby set
|
1922
|
|
|
F. S. Fitzgerald
|
Great Gatsby
|
|
|
What word does Tom hate being called in the GG
|
hulking
|
|
|
centrail idea in literary work
|
theme
|
|
|
what character represents morality in GG
|
Nick
|
|
|
What day does emily choose to relive in Our Town
|
12th birthday
|
|
|
Who said "people were ment to live two by two" (Ourtown)
|
Mrs. Gibbs
|
|
|
Poem mourning someones death
|
Elegy
|
|
|
stage directors final action in Our Town
|
turns back watch
|
|
|
pattern of arrangement of words in a statement
|
syntax
|
|
|
figure of speech appealing to two or more senses
|
synaethesia
|
|
|
what does janie save from her house with tea cake
|
seeds
|
|
|
writing that attempts to render the flow of feelings, thoughts, and impression
|
stream of conciousness
|
|
|
farce
|
ridiculous empty show
|
|
|
eulogy
|
speech at a funeral
|
|
|
minimalist
|
play uses few or no sets
|
|
|
non-fiction novel
|
writing about real events
|
|
|
motivation
|
force that moves a character to think, feel, or behave in a certain way
|
|
|
dramatic monologue
|
poem that presents the speech of a single character in a dramatic situation
|
|
|
poetry
|
imaginative language carefully chosen and arranged to communicate experiences, thoughts, or emotions
|
|
|
hyperbole
|
an exaggeration made for rhetorical effect
|
|
|
fiction
|
prose writing about imagined events or characters
|
|
|
reversal
|
dramatic change in the direction of events in a drama or narrative
|
|
|
lyric poetry
|
highly musical verse that expresses the emotions of a speaker
|
|
|
figurative
|
writing or speech meant to be understood imaginatively instead of literally
|
|
|
frame story
|
story that itself provides a vehicle for the telling of other stories
|
|
|
chronological order
|
arrangment of details in order of their occurence
|
|
|
epitaph
|
inscription on a grave stone
|
|
|
speaker
|
character who speaks or narrates in a poem
|
|
|
personification
|
attributes human qualities to nonhuman things
|
|
|
aim
|
what the author intends to accomplish
|
|
|
tone
|
speakers attitude toward the reader or subject
|
|
|
repetition of initial consonant sounds
|
alliteration
|
|
|
allusion
|
reference to people or events from literature or history
|
|
|
myth
|
story that explains the world using the supernatural
|
|
|
onomatopoeia
|
use of words that sound like the thing they refer to
|
|
|
meter
|
rythmical pattern
|
|
|
metaphor
|
figure of speech in which one thing is written about as if it were another
|
|
|
free verse
|
poetry that avoids regular rhythm or rhyme
|
|
|
parallelism
|
rhetorical technique in which a write emphasizes the equal value or weight of two or more ideas by expressing them in the same grammatical form
|
|
|
stanza
|
group of lines in a poem
|
|
|
legend
|
story passed down based on real events
|
|
|
internal monologue
|
presents the private sensations, thoughts, and emotions of a character
|
|
|
non fiction novel
|
combines journalism with fiction
|
|
|
speech about someones life
|
eulogy
|
|
|
drama
|
story told through characters played by actors
|
|
|
minimalist
|
opposite of literal
|
|
|
syntax
|
pattern of arrangement of words in a statement
|
|
|
point of view
|
vantage point from which a story is told
|
|
|
repetition
|
writer's conscious reuse of a sound, word, phrase, sentence, or other element.
|
|
|
simile
|
comparison using like or as
|
|
|
stream of consciousness
|
literary technique that attempts to render the flow of feelings, thoughts, and impressions within the minds of characters
|
|
|
rhetorical question
|
one asked for effect but not meant to be answered because the answer is clear from context
|
|
|
extended metaphor
|
point-by-point presentation of one thing as if it were another
|
|
|
rhyme scheme
|
pattern of end rhymes, or rhymes at the ends of lines of a verse
|
|
|
verbal irony
|
statement is made that implies its opposite
|
