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47 Cards in this Set
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what does a journey allow us to do?
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Excape, Travel, Percieve things differently, learn, relfect, question our beliefs, challenge our assumptions, and find joy and happiness.
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Quote by William Blake?
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What is now proved was once only imagination
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Quote by Ursula Le Guinn
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It is good to have an end to a journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
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Quote by R.A Gerald
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Reason can answer questions but imagination has to ask them
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What is Hyperbole?
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a literary term meaning exaggeration. its usually a vebal exageration and is used to highligh a point.
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What is Irony?
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It is when the meaning that the audience is to understand differs from what is actually ebing said or done.
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What are anecdotes?
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a short and interesting narrative of an event, usally having happened to the person telling the story. used to 'connect' or establish common ground.
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What is a parody?
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an imitation or mocking of a text, expecially using exageration to create humour.
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what is a pun?
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a play on words.
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what is a Euphemism?
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an expression used to directly avoid saying soemthing distasteful, unpleasant or confronting. e.g. "down there"
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tautology
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saying the same thing twice
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what shoul we consider when thinking about the audience of a text?
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age, sex, education and interests
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what are some purposes for texts?
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to persuade, to inform, to entertain, to review and to advertise
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what is alic in wonderland?
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written by lewis carroll, its a metaphoric journey for hte process of a child becoming an aduilt where learning is the key.
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what does alic learn to do with each new encounter?
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she has leant the rules and how to deal with the, even when they seem absurd and completely illogical. mad hatters- "i see what i eat is the same as i eat what i see"
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what does alice develop?
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a sense of herself.
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how does alice learn what it is to be an adult?
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after obeying everyones orders for the entire movie she is able to say "who cares for you?"
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what is the moral of alice in wonderland?
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we must learn about life itself in order to learn about ourselves.
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what is a strong visual technique used by carrol?
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visual imagery is used to portrey alices growth in size as a symbol of her growth of awareness and as a person. "she had grown to her full size by this time"
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what is achieved by alice?
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self improvement and growth.
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what is lucy in the sky with diamonds?
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ooriginally written byt he beatles its a song about an imaginary place, based on images from 'alice in wonderland'
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what is the imaginative journey in lucy in the sky with diamonds?
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the composer tells of imaginative places inviting the reader to join them in their own journey.
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what are some techniques of lucy in the sky with diamonds?
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metaphors such as "cellophane flowers of yellow and green" and surrealism such as "newspaper taxis appear on the shore"
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what does the use of metaphors and surrealism do in lucy in the sky with diamonds?
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creates a feeling of strangeness and wonder in the listener
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what does surrealism achieve in lucy int he sky with diamonds?
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makes the song dream like by represtning the subconcious mind and giving it dream like qualities "tangerine trees and marmalade skies"
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is there juxtaposition in lucy in the sky with diamonds?
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yes htere is with two words that dont usually go together "newspaper taxis"
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what do the metaphors achieve in lucy in the cky with diamonds?
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it tells the listener what they are seeing and relies on the listeners connotations of the words to build their own imaginary places.
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what is the tempest?
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the shakespeare play 'the tempest' is an imaginative journey through self examination, suspending disbelief and magic settings.
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what does gonzalo say about his vision of utopia?
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"all things in common with nature should produce without sweat or endevour. treason, felony, sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine whould i not have but nature should bring forth of it own kind, all foison, all abundance to feed my innocent people"
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what is the running theme in the tempest?
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strangeness and wonder. "The strangeness of your story" - miranda, "all torment, trouble, wonder and amazement inhabits here" - Gonzalo.
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what is the settingof the tempest?
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the setting is on an isolated island which hepls us suspend disbelief as it gives us blurred perceptions of whats real, imaginative or magic.
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what are some language techniques of the tempest?
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soliloquy. where by thoughts and words of charaters are not directly expressed to the audience.
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what techniques are used in the tempest to emphasis a point of fantasy or mystique?
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song and music in conjunction with language.
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what are some fantasy features in the tempest?
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raging storms, deserted island, magical sprites, nymphs, and monsters as well as a powerful magician.
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what state does the tempest unfold in?
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much of the tempest unfold in a dreamlike state "we are such stuff as dream are made on and our little lives are rounded up with sleep".
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what are some dramatic techniques used int he tempest?
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setting, sybolism, creation of conflict and charaterisation.
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what is the town where time stands still?
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written by shirley geok-lin Lim its a short piece from the stimulus that explores the change that can occur internally when the external surroundings are different and explains the motivations that drive people to take a journey "profit of pleasure"
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according to the town where time stands still: humans like...
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huamns like visualising and dreaming of where and when traveling can take them - the endless possibilities "Humans hope to be moved rather then to move"
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what is the desire of humans in the town where time stands still?
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the desire of humans to undergo the imaginary journey to speculate about a connection to time and place "which has nothing to do with a vacation" so they can "return" to reality "blessed and altered"
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what is the main idea the town where time stands still highlights?
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it highlights and supports the idea that an imaginative journey can have a lasting and dramatic affect on the human without ever been put into action.
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the town where time stands still shows us that through an imaginative journey...
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a person can gain positive growth and laterations to not only discover "external geography" but something that will act on their "internal pschology". the idea of achieving a "greater understanding" of self and the influences that the external has.
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what two texts does the concept of maturation connect?
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alice in wonderland and the tempest
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what is the maturation concept in alice in wonderland?
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alice's journey is completed with her realisation that she does possess strength and power. alice realises her potential and is matured by the 'wonderful dream'
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what is the maturation concept int he tempest?
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prospero maturing from his treatment of Ferdinand to allowing himself "have lost my daughter" from his original treatment "i'll manacle thy neck and feet"
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what texts does dramatic irony connect?
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the tempest and alice in wonderland
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where is dramatic irony shown?
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in both alice in wonderland with the chesnee cat and the tempest with ariel
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how does lucy in the sky with diamonds and the tempest relate to each other?
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through the strageness and wonderous qualities they both speak of and also the dream aspect
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