Elizabeth Fodor Individual Vocabulary May 3, 2011
Terms that I understand: Identity Quality of Life Aboriginal Human Rights Indigenous People Residential Schools Cultural Contact Imperialism Anecdote Allegory Globalization Figurative Devices Figurative Language Hyperbole Imagery Tragedy Voice Secondary Source Collective Response Mood Oxymoron Ridicule Sarcasm Primary Source Wit Comedies Atmosphere Aboriginal
Terms that I don’t completely understand: Multiple Perspectives Imperialist Policies Legacy Human Condition Allusion Colloquial Language Connotation Dramatic Irony Situational Irony Verbal Irony Jargon Rhetoric Aside Couplet Sonnet Multiple Perspectives Sustainable Individual Response Non-Indigenous Francophone
Understanding close concepts Multiple Perspective: Different views from different people held on one matter. Many different views on one matter The group couldn’t come to an agreement because they had multiple perspectives Legacy: Anything handed down from the past Passed down or lives for As for you, I have a legacy to live for Allusion A passing or casual reference of Reference to the past She made an allusion to her mothers childhood Connotation: The associated or secondary meaning of a work or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning The accidently mention something Dramatic Irony: Irony that is understood by the audience not character in the story The characters are stupid During the play Fiddler on the Roof, dramatic irony is present
Understanding close concepts Verbal Irony: o A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant o When someone says something that is ‘sarcastic’ o My boyfriend used lots of verbal irony towards me Couplet: A pair of successive lines of verse, especially a pair that rhyme and are of the same length Figurative writing with poems, rhyme and same length Sonnet: A poem with 14 lines with rhymes arranged according to one of certain schemes being in the strict or Italian for divided into a major group of 8 lines An Italian poem with 14 lines Shakespeare likes to use sonnets Non-Indigenous: Not indigenous Not original or originated to an area or place Those plants were non-indigenous to Africa Situational Irony: When the outcome turns out to be very different then what is intended Plans change dramatically During the play Fiddler on the Roof, situational irony is present me she he the bee
Terms that I don’t understand: Oral Histories Euro Centrism Hubris Juxtaposition Logical Fallacy Metacognition Paradox Tragic Flaw Emergent Issues Historical Globalization Prosperity
Understanding concepts I don’t understand Euro Centrism: believing that European ways of life is superior to superior to everyone else’s Everything about Europeans is better Coming from Europe, the travelers were ashamed to be in such a hotel in Canada. Hubris: form of pride that expressed itself as an accessed power and exaggerated self confidence The football jock was full of hubris Juxtaposition: an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast To be placed or put close together The rugby players were in juxtaposition in the muddle. Logical Fallacy: clearly defined error in reasoning, includes unintended mistakes Doing wrong on purpose or not There was much logical fallacy on her social exam. Oral Histories: personal opinions and experiences of a speaker kept in preservation Taking in something someone older than you has to say As the young girl listened to her grandmother speak of her past she wondered.
Understanding concepts I don’t understand Paradox: Seems unbelievable but may be true Hard to believe She was in a paradox when he asked for her hand in marriage. Tragic Flaw: Character hero in a tragedy that leads him/herself to their own destruction Because of actions or not, being put to a doom or into the wrong No matter how hard she tried to avoid it, she was wrong and was sent to jail because of her actions. Emergent Issues: A new issue, either positive or negative that has not yet been generally recognized Whether it is recognized or not, it may be wrong At the time he did not know that what he did was going to have such hard consequences. Prosperity: an economies state of growth with rising profits and full employment An economy doing well with high profit and many workers The Juice Junkeez work force was very prosperous in that they were very successful Metacognition: a process which involves focused thinking to create effective strategies for learning To try very hard to remember or learn and how you do it Metacognition is needed to do well in school.