Literature and Writing Flashcards
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Which American author wrote 'The Great Gatsby,' a novel critiquing the American Dream in the Jazz Age?
Answer: F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald published 'The Great Gatsby' in 1925, using narrator Nick Carraway to explore the hollow pursuit of wealth and status.
The term 'stream of consciousness' in literary technique refers to which narrative approach?
Answer: A narrative style that presents a character's continuous, unfiltered flow of thoughts and feelings
Stream of consciousness presents the continuous, often disorganized flow of a character's inner thoughts, as pioneered by writers like James Joyce and Virginia Woolf.
In academic writing, 'paraphrasing' differs from 'quoting' in which key way?
Answer: Paraphrasing restates the source's ideas in your own words while quoting reproduces the exact language
Paraphrasing means restating a source's meaning in your own words and sentence structure, while quoting reproduces the exact original wording.
Which literary movement, prominent in late 19th-century America, emphasized depicting ordinary life and social conditions with accuracy and without idealization?
Answer: Realism
American literary Realism, exemplified by writers like Mark Twain and Henry James, focused on truthful representation of everyday life and social conditions.
What is the function of a 'topic sentence' in a paragraph?
Answer: To state the main idea of the paragraph and connect it to the thesis
A topic sentence introduces the central idea of a paragraph and relates it to the essay's overall thesis.
In drama, 'dramatic irony' occurs when which condition is present?
Answer: The audience knows information that a character does not know
Dramatic irony creates tension or humor by allowing the audience to possess knowledge that one or more characters lack.