English 177 Id Final Terms

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The Great Migration

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When roughly 7 million african amercians moved from the south to the north.

ex. Relevant to Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, since most of the african americans moved north, but Janie, the main character continued to move deeper south.

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Harlem Renaissance

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An artistic movement orginating from the urban experience of blacks as they moved north during the Great Migration.

Ex. Zora Neal Hurston came out of this Renaissance.

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Canonicity

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A piece of (literary) work that displays aesthetic achievement (tremendous use of language), reflects cultural values, prestige for author and writer, a sense of timelessness, a certain malleability, and was sanctioned/approved by authorities.

Ex. Can be seen in ACO, as it had a tremedous use of language through the use of Nasdat, and reflects cultural values of at least that time since it criticized the current government through his dystopian society.

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Bildungsroman

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A novel about the education and maturing of a young person. Also known as a coming of age story.

In Their Eyes Were Watching God, the audience follows Janie mature in a multiplicity of ways, from when she was a child with her grandmother, to when she was a grown adult.

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Orality

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AWGANK

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Vernacular

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Refers to the speech pattern of certain characters.

The use can be seen in the use of Nasdat, as Alex and all his droogs only speak in Nasdat -- which consists of Russian derived words, Cockny English, and childish talk.

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Pastiche

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Refers to musical or artistic composition made up of selections or fragments or different works.

Ex. In ACO, Nasdat is composed of a mixture between Russian inspired terms, Cockny English and childish talk.

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refrain

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Usually a lyric that is repeated throughout a song or poem.

ex. In ACO, the line "whats it going to be then, eh?" is said in part I and then repeated in part III of the novel.

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Ensemble Cast

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A Group of Actors/actresses, each of who is just as important as everyone else.

ex. In Babel, there are four interlocking storylines, that equally involve each actor/actress the same amount.

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Butterfly effect

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Derived from Chaos theory where one small change introduced to a system will change the way the system operates.

Can be seen in Babel, if you compare the gun to the small change that was introduced to the system. Which, obviously made the system have a different outcome since it caused the shooting of a tourist and many other consequences.

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Poetic Impulse

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An attempt to create meaning through association and juxtapositions of seemingly unrelated images and stories.

Poetic Impulse can be seen in Babel, by taking 4 different stories, with a multiplicity of different characters and interlocking them to prove one theme.

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Graphic Match

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type of editing that strings together two-shots with similar compositional elements.

In babel... the children running.

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Sound editing

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Splicing together different sounds and sound effects to create a sound track

ex. In Babel, the dance sequence shows music in one type of scene then silence in the other shot, obviously the being edited in (or out) after the filming

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Documentary Impulse

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An attempt to represent a sense of reality, with minimal mediation or distortion by art

ex. the use of a handheld camera, without, for example, no shot/reverse shot which creates some sort of realism. This is seen in Babel, with jarring zooms as compared to slow zooms that are hardly noticable.

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Globalization

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Political and economical process whereby a nation becomes increasingly reliant upon interactions with other nations

ex. In babel, America is unable to help the Jones couple until they talk to the country that they are currently in.

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vice figure

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A personification of the devil. Not the actual devil but an evil character that tempts others.

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Rhetorical figure

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A word or phrase that departs from straight forward, literal language. Figures of speech are often used and crafted for emphasis, freshness of expression or clarity.

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anaphora

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repetition of a word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses, sentences, or lines


ex. Seen on page 107 on lines 97-108 for the repitition of the wordd "for"

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chiasmus

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1) Repition of ideas in inverted order 2) Repetition of grammatical structures in inverted order.

ex. p 106 line 63, 64.... My Edward vs. Thy Edward type of lines

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Adaptation

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Cinematic re-telling or updating of literal texts (novels, plays, poetry)

ex. Shakespeare's Richard III was adapted into cinema.

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British Heritage film

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Genre of british filmmaking that attemptsto give audiences a sense of the rich historical life.

Richard III

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Cross-cutting

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The use of continuity editing in which the camera cuts between two different actions to establish simultanity or similarity

Seen in the film adaptation of Richard the III WHEN AWAWB

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Tracking shot

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movement of the camera across or within space as it follows the subject

Seen in Richard III as the camera tracks behind him while he will continuously turn around and talk to it in the hospital.

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Direct speech/discourse

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Quoted dialogue-- basically anything spoken directly from a character.

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Indirect speech

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usually involves a 3rd person describing the direct speech of another character.

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Free indirect speech

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A combination of direct and indirect speech, where two characters in the text seem to fuse voices

The narrator ITEWWG

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Modes of speech

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The way speech and langauge are used.

Ex. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, verbal sparring through 'playing the dozens' ?!?!? GOOD?

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"Art House" cinema

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The antithesis to mainstream hollywood that relies on theme, philosophy, ideas, or visual style and less of an emphasis on plot


This can be seen in the Piano with mise en scene and emphasis on visual style.

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Diagesis

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anything that relates to the story.

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Motif

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A Reoccuring theme, idea, or form in literature.

In the Piano, a motif was seen through the teoccuring theme of silence and the idea that 'Silence affects everybody"

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Dystopian

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The antithesis of a Utopian society. It literally means a "bad place," type of society. A very derelict society.

ACO, alex and his friends obviously partake in a dystopian society by raping, stealing and beating on and from society.