Fearon's American Literature Unit 5 Conflict
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- conflict
- A fight or a battle between two or more characters
- analogy
- a comparison between two different things
- genre
- a type of literay work, such as a novel, shhort story, poem, drama, biography, or autobiography
- reputation
- what people generally think about a person; fame
- discipline
- punishment, correction
- determination
- firmness of purpose or mind
- assurance
- confidence
- Give examples of an analogy
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sleep and death;
an eye is like a camera;
glorious rebirth and heaven of freedom -
Fill in the correct word in this analogy:
Dance is to ballet, as sport is to _____________________.
wallet; sunglasses; track and field; magazines - track and field
- Heat is to fire as cold is to ________.
- Ice
- What type of genre was "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass"
- autobigraphy
- What was the conflict in the "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas"?
- Frederick Douglas wanting to be treated like a man - not being beat by his master.
- paradox
- a statement that at first seems impossible but that may actually be or feel true
- subway
- a train that runs underground
- courtesy
- good manners, a kindness
- prejudiced
- not accepting of others, closeminded, racist
- explode
- blow up, go off
- racism
- belief that some people are superior to others
- Give an example of a paradox
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Fight for peace;
Little things are big;
Dying in order to live;
finding life by losing it - What is the conflict in "Little Things Are Big"?
- The narrator is fighting with his own fears and feelings as he decides whether to help the woman.
- Give an example of an external conflict in this Unit.
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the fight between the two friends in "Amigo Brothers"
The fight between Frederick Douglas and Mr. Covey in "Narrrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas" - figurative language
- words that describe something by making comparisons
- Give an example of figurative language
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All the worlds a stage;
Roared like a lion;
Blind as a bat;
my words are like the stars that never change - ancestors
- people in your family who came before you; such as your parents and grandparents
- abandoned
- left alone, deserted
- regret
- to feel sorry something that happened
- descendents
- people in your life who came after you, such as your children and grandchildren
- invisible
- cannot be seen
- turning point
- the event in a story that leads to a solution of the problem
- drawing conclusions
- combining your own experience with story details to figure out what is happening
- foreshadowing
- hints that tell the reader what might happen in a story
- drool
- to let liquid ruun out of the mouth, as a baby does
- exotic
- unfamiliar; as if from another country
- alien
- strange; coming from another country
- calloused
- hardened thick skin, such as what happens to your fingers when you use tools alot
- assumed
- thought something was true
- tainted
- ruined; damaged
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Tell what spine means in this sentence:
While I was reading my book, the spine fell apart. - the part of the book where the pages are bbound together came apart or separated.
- What is the conflict in "Ribbons"?
- Between generations, misunderstanding about binding feet
- colloquial language
- the everyday language people use when talking to friends, slang
- Give an example of colloquial language
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dude (male person), fat (great), mallrat (kids who hang around shopping centers), lol (lots of laughs)
cool (awesome), bling-bling (flashy jewelry) - dialogue
- the conversation between characters
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Is this an example of internal or external conflit?
The conflict between Felix and Antonio worrying about whether or not they can hurt each other and if so, will they still be "amigos" (friends). - internal
- referee
- the person who judges the match
- omniscient point of view
- the author tells the thoughts and feelsings of all the characters; he uses the third person point of view, (he she, and they) and stays outside of the story
- irony
- the difference between what seems to be real and what is real
- setting
- the time and place of a story
- fierce
- violent, cruel
- choir
- a singing group
- explosion
- blast from a bomb bursting
- clawed
- to have dug with nails
- Name two conflicts in "Ballad of Birmingham"
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the conflict between mother and child (the daughter wanting to go to the march and the mother saying 'no');
the conflict between whites and blacks - connotation
- an idea or feeling suggested by a word
- denotation
- the plain meaning of a word
- tenement
- aparment building in a bad area of town
- lack
- need
- molding
- the trim on a wall or ceiling
- Give an example of connotation and denotation
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sea - I crossed the sea - a body of water
There are many fishes in the sea - a large amount
Wall - There was a wall between the roooms - an enclosure put up to surround or separate something
The way he treated me was as if there was a wall between us. (a distance or space between the two people - being treated coldly by a person) - Lyric poem
- a poem that is like a song; it expresses strong feelings about something
- What genre was "Simple-song"?
- a poem
- verbal irony
- what is meant may be the opposite of what is said
- apostrophe
- a figure of speech in which the poet talks to, or addresses, a person or thing that is not present
- virtue
- goodness, uprightness, excellence
- shroud
- cloth used to cover a dead body
- slaughter
- killing, slaying
- Give an example of verbal irony
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War is kind;
When a parent, after a difficult day with their child, says "Thanks for making this such a great day for me". - Give an example of "apostrophe" in War is Kind.
- When the author talks to the young woman, a child, and a mothher who have lost loved ones in the war. They are really not there.
- details
- pieces of information that help "paint" a picture for the reader
- atmosphere
- the general mood of a piece of literature; setting, details, and the writer's choice of words create the atmosphere.
- nourishment
- food to keep one healthy and alive
- deperate
- frantic; hopeless
- crisis
- turning point, climax
- resistance
- fighting back
- fugitive
- a runaway; a hunted person
- Who was the fugitive in "Escape: A Slave Narrative"?
- James W.C. Pennington - who was a runaway slave