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Antagonist - ✔️✔️The character/idea against whom the protagonist (or hero) struggles.
Often referred to as the "bad guy", though this label is limiting.
Simile - ✔️✔️A comparison (like a metaphor), but it uses the words "like" or "as". Example: Her
eyes were big as diamonds.
Tragedy - ✔️✔️It follows the descent of its main character into a catastrophe, resulting in
catharsis—evoking the audience's pity and fear at the character's demise.
The main character is usually called the tragic hero—one who begins the play with great
potential and high status but is ultimately doomed to fail, often because of a tragic flaw in his
character. The tragic flaw most often seen in Greek literature is hubris, or excessive pride in
one's own abilities.
Ode - ✔️✔️A lyric, stanzaic poem with varying line lengths and rhyme schemes, longer than a
sonnet certainly, but much shorter than an epic.
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) most famous books - ✔️✔️Huckleberry Finn
Tom Sawyer
Innocents Abroad
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Relief - ✔️✔️A sculpture tied to the background from which it only partially emerges, as opposed
to a free-standing sculpture.
What is Pop Art? - ✔️✔️This movement suggested that a picture is not "essentially a flat surface
covered with colors" but an image wanting to be recognized. With this concept in mind, a group
,of artists grabbed popular images of commercial art familiar to popular taste, and reworked
them, changing their context and attracting attention to that easily taken for granted.
What distinguishes the photography of Dorothea Lange - ✔️✔️She photographed during the time
of the Depression, and her concern for people and her sensitivity to their plights made her a
superb documentary photographer. Her article with the photograph of a young widow with her
children in a migrant workers' camp with 2,500 virtually starving migrant workers in California
made the government respond by rushing in food and workers' relief camps emerged.
Which are the register for female and male voices? - ✔️✔️Female vocal registers consist of:
• soprano (high)
• mezzo-soprano (medium)
• alto/contralto (low/lowest).
The male vocal registers are:
• tenor (high)
• baritone (medium)
• bass (low)
Dance - ✔️✔️It can be defined as patterned and rhythmic body movements to the
accompaniment of music or other rhythmic sounds for the purpose of telling a story or
communicating emotions, themes or ideas. Dancing can serve many functions such as ritual,
courtship, religious celebrations, worship, art, entertainment, recreation, rites of passage and
socialization.
Om (also Aum or Pranava): - ✔️✔️It is the most important and sacred Hindu syllable. It is an
elongated sound thought to contain all things and believed to be the sound through which the
universe was created. It is chanted at the beginning of many prayers and blessings
, Allegory - ✔️✔️A form of extended metaphor in which objects, persons, and actions in a story
that lie outside the story. The story has two meanings, a literal and a symbolic meaning. The
meanings have a moral, social, religious, or political significance.
Alliteration - ✔️✔️Repetition of an initial consonant. Two forms:
Assonance: Identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words.
Consonance: The final consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words.
Antithesis - ✔️✔️Opposite phrases in close conjunction, a contrast of opposites or a contrast of
degree
Archetype - ✔️✔️Original model or pattern from which copies are made. Includes a symbol,
theme, setting, or even an entire human race.
Backdrop - ✔️✔️a curtain or scenery at the back of a stage
Bildungsroman - ✔️✔️A German word referring to a novel structured as a series of events that
take place as the hero travels in quest of a goal
Canon - ✔️✔️A collection of works and authors who have the seal of approval from academic
and cultural establishments.
Climax - ✔️✔️That point in a plot that creates the greatest intensity, suspense, or interest;
usually the point at which the conflict is resolved
Doppelganger - ✔️✔️A double or look alike of a living person that typically represents evil.
Epilogue - ✔️✔️A final chapter at the end of a story that usually brings closure to the story.
100% Correct Answers | Verified
Antagonist - ✔️✔️The character/idea against whom the protagonist (or hero) struggles.
Often referred to as the "bad guy", though this label is limiting.
Simile - ✔️✔️A comparison (like a metaphor), but it uses the words "like" or "as". Example: Her
eyes were big as diamonds.
Tragedy - ✔️✔️It follows the descent of its main character into a catastrophe, resulting in
catharsis—evoking the audience's pity and fear at the character's demise.
The main character is usually called the tragic hero—one who begins the play with great
potential and high status but is ultimately doomed to fail, often because of a tragic flaw in his
character. The tragic flaw most often seen in Greek literature is hubris, or excessive pride in
one's own abilities.
Ode - ✔️✔️A lyric, stanzaic poem with varying line lengths and rhyme schemes, longer than a
sonnet certainly, but much shorter than an epic.
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) most famous books - ✔️✔️Huckleberry Finn
Tom Sawyer
Innocents Abroad
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Relief - ✔️✔️A sculpture tied to the background from which it only partially emerges, as opposed
to a free-standing sculpture.
What is Pop Art? - ✔️✔️This movement suggested that a picture is not "essentially a flat surface
covered with colors" but an image wanting to be recognized. With this concept in mind, a group
,of artists grabbed popular images of commercial art familiar to popular taste, and reworked
them, changing their context and attracting attention to that easily taken for granted.
What distinguishes the photography of Dorothea Lange - ✔️✔️She photographed during the time
of the Depression, and her concern for people and her sensitivity to their plights made her a
superb documentary photographer. Her article with the photograph of a young widow with her
children in a migrant workers' camp with 2,500 virtually starving migrant workers in California
made the government respond by rushing in food and workers' relief camps emerged.
Which are the register for female and male voices? - ✔️✔️Female vocal registers consist of:
• soprano (high)
• mezzo-soprano (medium)
• alto/contralto (low/lowest).
The male vocal registers are:
• tenor (high)
• baritone (medium)
• bass (low)
Dance - ✔️✔️It can be defined as patterned and rhythmic body movements to the
accompaniment of music or other rhythmic sounds for the purpose of telling a story or
communicating emotions, themes or ideas. Dancing can serve many functions such as ritual,
courtship, religious celebrations, worship, art, entertainment, recreation, rites of passage and
socialization.
Om (also Aum or Pranava): - ✔️✔️It is the most important and sacred Hindu syllable. It is an
elongated sound thought to contain all things and believed to be the sound through which the
universe was created. It is chanted at the beginning of many prayers and blessings
, Allegory - ✔️✔️A form of extended metaphor in which objects, persons, and actions in a story
that lie outside the story. The story has two meanings, a literal and a symbolic meaning. The
meanings have a moral, social, religious, or political significance.
Alliteration - ✔️✔️Repetition of an initial consonant. Two forms:
Assonance: Identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words.
Consonance: The final consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words.
Antithesis - ✔️✔️Opposite phrases in close conjunction, a contrast of opposites or a contrast of
degree
Archetype - ✔️✔️Original model or pattern from which copies are made. Includes a symbol,
theme, setting, or even an entire human race.
Backdrop - ✔️✔️a curtain or scenery at the back of a stage
Bildungsroman - ✔️✔️A German word referring to a novel structured as a series of events that
take place as the hero travels in quest of a goal
Canon - ✔️✔️A collection of works and authors who have the seal of approval from academic
and cultural establishments.
Climax - ✔️✔️That point in a plot that creates the greatest intensity, suspense, or interest;
usually the point at which the conflict is resolved
Doppelganger - ✔️✔️A double or look alike of a living person that typically represents evil.
Epilogue - ✔️✔️A final chapter at the end of a story that usually brings closure to the story.
