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What is a Tale of Two Cities?
Author- Charles Dickens
Publish Date- 1859 Genre - Historical Novel / Serial Novel Time Period - Victorian Protagonist - Darnay Themes - Tyranny/Revolution, Resurrection/Recalled to life. |
What is mood?
a literary element that evokes certain feelings in a reader through words, characters, actions, setting, description, and/or language.
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What is a Vertex?
Point where 2 rays intersect.
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What is Francis Schaffer's Definition of Good Art?
1) Does the artifact demonstrate technical excellence
2) Does this artist reveal honesty and transparency? 3) Does the content reflect universal truths about the experience of being human? 4) Does the medium amplify the message? |
What is a Clarifying Question?
Questions that seeks to eliminate ambiguity, confusion or misunderstanding.
What Does that mean? Can you explain? |
What is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?
Author- Lewis Carroll
Publish Date- 1865 Genre - Literary Nonsense, Children's Fantasy Time Period - Golden Age of Children's Literature Protagonist - Alice Themes - Dreams/Reality, Being/not being, Meaninglessness of Words |
What is Hyperbole?
exaggeration, overstatement for effect.
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What is Diameter?
A straight line passing from side to side through the center of a circle or sphere.
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What is Neoclassicism?
The Revival of a classical style in art, literature, music and architecture.
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What is an Expand Question?
Questions about Viewpoints or Perspectives.
Why is that the best view? What is another way to look at it? |
What is Favorite Father Brown Stories?
Author- GK Chesterton
Publish Date- 1910-1935 Genre - Mystery, Fiction, Short Story Time Period - 20th Cent Brit Lit Protagonist - Father Brown Themes - Human Nature/behavior, intuition |
What is Denouement?
the final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved.
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What is the Product Rule for Exponents?
When multiplying two powers that have the same base, you can add the exponents.
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What is Fragmentation?
The process or state of breaking into small parts, disconnected, chaotic.
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What is a Challenge Question?
Questions that probe the purpose.
Is that always the case? Can you prove it? |
What is A Passage to India?
Author- EM Forrester
Publish Date- 1924 Genre - Historical Fiction, Realism Time Period - Modernism Protagonist - Adela & Aziz Themes - Colonialism, Friendship, Division vs Unity, Race/culture |
What is Allegory?
A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself.
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What is an Exterior Angle?
Angle formed by extending one side of a polygon.
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What is Things to Look for when Reading a painting?
Subject/content, Brushstroke, texture, line, composition (geometric/organic shapes, Symmetry/asymmetry), line of sight, movement, depth, realistic/altered, color, and texture.
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What is an Assess Question?
Questions That Probe Implications and Consequences.
What are the consequences? What are you implying? |
What is Out of the Silent Planet
Author- CS Lewis
Publish Date- 1938 Genre - Science Fiction Time Period - Modernism Protagonist - Ransom Themes - Christian Imagery/thought, Civilization & Utopia, Human Nature & Morality. |
What is Allusion?
An implied or indirect reference to a person,
event, or thing outside of the text. |
What is Domain?
all possible x values on a graph
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What is Affluence?
An overwhelming and ever-increasing prosperity. (Things, things, more things.) Success is judged by higher level of material abundance.
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What are the 6 types of Socratic Questions?
1) Clarify
2) Challenge 3) Examine 4) Expand 5) Assess 6) Question |