All The -Isms

Question 1

faulty pronunciation of sibilant sounds; lisp; repetitive use of the letter “s”

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sigmatism

Question 2

attribution of a soul to plants, inanimate objects, and natural phenomena; supernatural power organizes the universe.

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animism

Question 3

literary theft

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plagiarism

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violation of grammatical rules--”She don’t”

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Solecism

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19th century belief that society has an inate tendency toward improvement

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Meliorism

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movement emphasizing the expression of the imagination as realized in dreams and presented without conscious control.

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surrealism

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something assigned to a time when it was not in existence--sports bottles in the cartoon Hercules

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anachronism

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Philosophy that exalts endurance, self-sufficiency, self-control, & conformity to laws of nature

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Stoicism

Question 9

doctrine derived from qualities of ancient Greek and Roman culture

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classicism

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Doctrine that states that pleasure is the chief good of human beings

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Hedonism

Question 11

18th-century revolt against rationalism that remained strong through the 19th century

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Romanticism

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Early Christian belief that humans have immediate knowledge of spiritual truth from faith alone

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Gnosticism

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19th-century movement “art for art’s sake”

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aestheticism

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accidental transposing initial sounds--you have hissed the mystery lectures/you have missed the history lectures.

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spoonerism

Question 15

-one element of equal importance to another is similarity written and phrased

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parallelism

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indirectness replaces directness of statement--“senior citizens” instead of “old people,” “pass away” instead of “die”)

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Euphemism

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a style originating in France in the 1860s depicting visual impression, especially shifting effect of light and color.

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Impressionism

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Conventional, metaphorical, or proverbial utterance, usually a pun, or giving literal sense to a figurative expression

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Wellerism

Question 19

ascription of human characteristics to non-human objects; presentation of a nonhuman entity in human form

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anthropomorphism

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Writing style developed in 19th century that tries to depict life without idealizing or romanticizing it

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Realism

Question 21

-use of one object to represent or suggest another

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symbolism

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the mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one--poet lariat instead of poet laureate.

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Malapropism

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Bold new style that swept the arts during the early 20th century

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Modernism

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16th century movement in England that spread into the New England colonies in America; aftermath of the Renaissance

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Puritanism

Question 25

word, phrase, manner, customs, dress, or expression used in a particular region--not fashionable or sophisticated

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provincialism

Question 26

highly affected style features stylistic extravagances such as innovations in grammar, puns, paradoxes, etc.

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Gongorism

Question 27

-instructiveness in a work, especially for guidance in moral, ethical, or religious matters

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didactism

Question 28

late 19th and early 20th century movement; applied scientific principles to literature

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naturalism

Question 29

Informal expression not accepted in formal speech or writing (slang, contractions)

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colloquialism

Question 30

survival of the fittest through a process of selection--natural, sexual, or domestic.

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Darwinism

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repetition of parts; use of a pair of opposites to mean a whole, as “the long and short of it” means “the whole story”

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Merism

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fidelity to a particular area and representation of its habits, beliefs, customs, manners, history, folklore, and speech

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Regionalism

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Emphasizes existence rather than essence; sees inadequacy of human reason to explain universe; I think, therefore I am

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Existentialism

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Fidelity to a particular geographical area; representation of its speech, manners, history, folklore, beliefs, & habits

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Regionalism

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19th-century notion--everyone can reach ultimate truth through spiritual intuition transcending reason & experience

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Transcendentalism

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avant-garde movement characterized by repetition of short phrases which change gradually, producing a hypnotic effect.

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minimalism

Question 37

formula for presenting an argument logically; demonstrating logic through analysis.

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syllogism

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