Midterm Study Guide

Hey fellow students! I had nothing better do this Friday, so I created a consolidated list of what we've done so far, and what is likely to be on the midterm.

Week 6

1. Ambiguous - vague
   
2. Red Herring - a distractor
   
3. fallacy - misconception
   
4. pinnacle- peak; summit; apex
   
5. respite - postponement; a delay;
   
6. sagacious - wise
   
7. veracity - truthfulness
   
8. plausible - likely; probably;credible
   
9. stringent -strict; severe; restrictive
   
10. cognizant - aware

Week 7

1. repudiate - renounce; discard
   
2. erudite - wise
   
3. truncate - to cut short; trim; curtail
   
4. recalcitrant - stubborn; hard to deal with
   
5. soporific - sleep inducing
   
6. innocuous - harmless
   
7. querulous - full of complaints
   
8. succinct - concise, to the point
   
9. superfluous - redundant; unnecessary
   
10. prevaricate - to lie; speak misleadingly

Week 8

1. vaunt - to brag, boast
2. obsequious - fawning; submissive
3. truculent - fierce; cruel; brutally harsh
4. beguile- to deceive or trick
5. enervate - to deprive of strength; weaken
6. idiosyncratic - a characteristic or trait that's peculiar to an individual
7. exonerate - to free from guilt
8. alacrity - eagerness; cheerfulness
9. canonical - tradition
10. evocative - to evoke; remind of

Week 9

1. atrocity - cruelty; injustice; inhumane
2. malevolence - wishing evil on someone
3. sagacious - wise
4. chimera - hodgepodge; a mix of parts put together
5. docility - trainable; teachable
6. conflagration - large fire
7. odious - hateful
8. perverseness - to do something wrong deliberately
9. phantasm - ghost;

Types of Literature

1. Native American - Various authors
2. Puritan - Hawthorne
3. Revolutionary War - Benjamin Franklin, Patrick Henry
4. Great Awakening - Jonathan Edwards
5. Romanticism - Edgar Allen Poe
6. Transcendentalism - Thoreau, Emerson, Margaret Fuller

Pieces of Literature

1. Rip Van Winkle - Washington Irving
2. The Tide Rises the Tide Falls - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
3. Old Ironsides - Oliver Wendell Holmes
4. Native American "Myths" (When Grizzlies walked upright and the Earth on Turtle's Back)
   
5. The Interesting Narrative of The Life of Olaudah Equiano -Olaudah Equiano
6. The Devil and Tom Walker - Washington Irving
7. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
8. Of Plymouth Plantation - William Bradford
9. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God - Jonathan Edwards
10. Upon the Burning of my House - Anne Bradstreet
    

Native American Literature

1. History: before the 1800s people thought Native Americans didn't have literature
   
2. passed down orally
   
3. centers around gods, creation, the meaning of life and death, and natural phenomena
   
4. focuses on nature
5. topics: greed, wisdom of elders, respect for nature
6. usually has a trickster figure (ex. grandmother, spider, cayote)
   

Romanticism (1800-1860)

1. value feelings over reason and logic
   
2. values poetry
   
3. places faith in the imagination
   
4. reflects on nature to gain spiritual wisdom
   
5. prefer innocence to sophistication
6. fights for individual's freedom and worth
7. trusts past wisdom not progress
   
8. A romantic hero is NOT good with chicks. =(
9. Romantic hero is youthful and innocent
   
10. Romantics: Edgar Allen Poe, Irving, Longfellow, and Holmes

Transcendentalism

1. self trust and confidence
2. self-reliance and simplicity
3. live close to nature because nature is the source of trust and inspiration
4. valued individuality, non-conformity, and free thought
5. Transcendentalists: Thoreau, Emerson
   

Remember to also study grammar like adverbs, and prepositions. Other than that, this is most of what we've done this nine weeks. PLEASE ADD more to the list, this is by no means a complete list of everything we've done.

To Ms. Jones: Please verify/add/remove anything as you see fit. merci

Have a great day APers. Study like a boss.

"I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come."
- Abraham Lincoln