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English 211 with Dowling at Central Connecticut State University
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By: Akil Shaikh
Created: 2011-04-10
Size: 41 flashcards
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Created: 2011-04-10
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Avant Garde
New and Unusual or experimental ideas.
Highbrow
High Expectations of literal quality.
Lowbrow
Someone or something of low education or culture.
Existentialism
-Exist in nothingness
-"God was dead cause of World War 1"
- Live life in good faith
Culture of Narcissism
Interested in individual instead of societies.
Conspicuous Consumption
Demonstrates status of the person.
Alienation
Being isolated from group or an activity to which one should belong or in which one should be involved.
- Self --------------- Society
Dehumanization
-Deprive of positive human qualities
- Driven by modern industrial society
Disillusionment
Something you dream about, but may not happen
Cosmopolitanism
Familiar with and at ease in many different countries and cultures.
Expressionism
A style of painting, music, or drama in which the artist or writer seeks to express emotion rather than impressions
Exposition
a description and explanation of an idea or theory
Socialism
A political and economic theory of a social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
Anti- Materialism
People who engaged in consequences consumption
Monologue
the form of style of such speechless
Minimalism
Very short phrases that changes gradually, producing a hypotonic effect.
Symbolism
The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities
Allegory
a story, poem or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning...
metaphor
Prohibition
The action of forbidding something.
Catch-22
A dilemma or difficult circumstances from which there is no escape because of mutually conflicting or dependent condition.
Lost Generation
A generation reaching maturity during and just after World War 1, a high proportion of whose men were killed during those years.
Harlem Renaissance
A literary movement in the 1920s that centered on Harlem and was an early manifestation of black consciousness in the U.S.
Syntax
The arrangement of words or phrases to create well-formed sentences in a languages.
Bureaucrat
A official in a government department
Primitivism
Unsophisticated behavior that is unaffected by objective reasoning.
Nominalism
Limited amount of words to describe something.
Ethnicity Paradox
Empathizing difference to join larger groups
Identity Politics
A tendency of people of a particular religion, race, social background, to form exclusive political alliance, moving away from traditional broad-based party politics
Free Verse
Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter
Good faith
Live the way the person wants to live
Bad Faith
Live the way the society wants the person to live
Dramatic Structure
Is the structure of a dramatic work such as a play or film.
Genteel Tradition
polite, refined, or respectable often in an affected way
Irony
The expression of one's meaning by using language Blue's Literature that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
Talented Tenth
-It appeared in the Negro Problem, a collection of essays written by leading African American
- African American should show who are educated proper english
Great Migration
The migration was movement of 4.1 million African Americans out of the southern United States to the North, Midwest, and West from 1910 to 1930.
New Negro
Is a term popularized during the Harlem Renaissance implying a more outspoken advocacy of dignity and refusal to submit quitely to practice and laws of Jim Crow racial segregation
Low Down Folks
Southern black culture to larger american society
Industrialization
develop industries in or on a wide scale
Literature of Omission
Ernst Hemingway Writing
The Making of Americans - Gertrude Stein
All living family
About this deck
By: Akil Shaikh
Created: 2011-04-10
Size: 41 flashcards
Views: 190
Created: 2011-04-10
Size: 41 flashcards
Views: 190
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