English 10 Unit 6 Review

-ruled by Han family
-strong, centralized government based on Confucian ideas
-territory doubled, population increase
-arts and scientists increased
-Buddhism reached from India
-silk road
-Rome became leading world power by conquering Greeks.
-Christianity spread
-rivalries

interpretation;interpretation

a type of plant with leaves that look like the feet of geese

actions or words that encourage rebellion

a follow of Taoism, a belief system that emphasizes humility and harmony with nature

a persons character or courage

a span is about 9 inches

the pouring of a drink as an act of respect

of or due from a child

abruptly

a mythical bird

from the city of Taiyuan in north central China.

on the story on stories in the oral tradition.
almost all of his works were fictionalized accounts of historical events.

draws upon stories set in the Han dynasty of eastern China. The Han rulers had grown weak and courtiers had assumed control of the government.
corruption… honors those who remain to the government and uphold tradition.

Luo Guanzhong

the last emperor of china; become emperor at 3.
his reign ended in 1911 when he was forced to give up his title. although he was dethroned, his lifestyle for the next decade and a half.
European colonialism was destabilizing to china’s imperial rule, and it weakened the thrones authority and control over the country.

word or phrase used in the place of another word or phrase that may be offensive or unpleasant.
“the nice way of saying a bad thing”

complicity;secret cooperation

medicine store; place where medicines are stored and distributed

varied; miscellaneous

splendor; show of magnificence

right; special privilege

tremendous; monstrous

following; entourage (entourage is a real word: a group of people who go with and assist an important person)

a. do not summarize the work of literature
b. do not make general statements
c. do not make a point you can’t support
d. do not compare the literature to another worked that is not relevant.
e. ovoid stating obvious facts
f. specific terminology

relates to the thesis
reiterate key points
closing argument

Aisin-Gioro P’u Yi

last emperor of China; at age 3 resumed his title, but the Republican Revolution 4 years later forced him to relinquish his throne
He was allowed to retain his title, money and home in the Forbidden City. In 1924, he and his family were forced at gunpoint to flee China. He was charged with war crimes, and imprisoned in Communist China. He got released and got a new career as a mechanic in a public garden until death.

his attitude toward the subject he is writing about

individuals characteristics–age, sex, and personality
cultural or ethnic origins, attitudes and customs
personal opinions, beliefs, and values
life experiences and general knowledge
knowledge of literature and literary genres
knowledge of the historical and social climate in which an author has written a work
reading and language skills

printed letters that slant to the right.
letters, numbers and words when they are used to represent themselves. (“You never cross your *t’s* or write your *2s* correctly.”)
foreign words that are not generally used in English.
titles of long written or musical works that are published as a single unit. titles of paintings and sculptures and the names of vehicles.

come in pairs; placed at the beginning and at the end of uninterrupted quotations and certain titles.
the titles of smaller parts of a long work should be enclosed in these.
to enclose titles of chapters, articles, stories, one-act plays, short poems, and songs.

individuals characteristics–age, sex, and personality
cultural or ethnic origins, attitudes and customs
personal opinions, beliefs, and values
life experiences and general knowledge
knowledge of literature and literary genres
knowledge of the historical and social climate in which an author has written a work
reading and language skills

losing your social standing or honor. It can be lost in a society or group due to unfair circumstances, mis-perceptions, or mistakes.

brutal period of censorship and repression.
people were imprisoned and banished under Chairman Mao’s attempts to scrub his country of an non-Communist influences and his political enemies.
the communist party forced strict conformity in lifestyle and beliefs.

banishing members of the Cultural Revolution to desolate areas of China, burning books written by revolutionaries, and forcing revolutionaries to attend seld-criticism meetings that abused participants.

Freedom of thought challenges communism’s commitment to the state and that democracy positively associated with feelings of respect.

guesses;suppositions

disproved;deflated

seek;pry

confounded;confused

incompatible;odd

tireless;inexhaustible

little world; miniature representation

intrusive; meddlesome

believable;likely

prying;forcing open

peak;high point

Feng Ji-cai

professional basketball player until an injury put an end to that career.
he focused on writing, producing novels, short stories, scripts and nonfiction.
he studies Chinese history ad culture.
explained that writing can be just reporting but an intellectual considers wider matters–such as the culture, the past and the future.

the way in which an author creates and develops a character utilizing exposition, dialogue and action.

Face represents a person’s reputation and feelings of prestige within multiple circles, including the workplace, the family, personal friends, and society at large. There is a individual view, community view, and ctions.

pertains to tha mount of prestige individuals feel based on their acconomplishments, and the amount of respect they feel is their due based upon their position and status, such as in a company or society.
the respect a perin is due is determined first by status relative to anothers, not necessarily by individual achievements.

pertains to the amount of respect individuals feel that they need to give someone else based upon that persons position or status, such as in a business, family unit or within a group or friends.

pertain to the various activities that can cause an individual to gain or lose Face.
Based upon ones position relative to anothers, several differ actions can be employed to either cause a loss or gain of Face.
in some cases these actions that can cause a gain or loss of Face are used as tactics by the Chinese to achieve a specific result.

the events that lead up to a climax and to an outcome that resolves a central conflict

when, where

people in the story who advance the plot through their thoughts and actions

the conversations among characters that reveal their personalities, actions and motivations or reasons for behaving as they do

the writers attitude toward her or his characters

the “voice” telling the story–first erson, or third person (he or she)

main idea or message of the story

the person whose voice is saying the poem, revealing the character the poet is assuming

pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in each line

attern of rhymed sounds usually at the ends of lines

techniques for playing with sounds to create certain effects such as alliteration and onomatopoeia.

imaginative language, such as similes, and metaphors, which creates images by making comparisons

the way a poem looks on the printed page, which may contribute to the underlying meaning of the poets thoughts and feelings

the underlying meaning of a poem

combining or bringing together

make all your oints about poem A, then make all the points about the poem B

make one point about both literary works, and then discuss how the tone of poem a is similar to or differ from that of poem b…then move on to take another point about the poems

can stand alone as a sentence

cannot stand alone as a sentence

subordinate clause that is used as an adjective to describe a noun or pronoun…add info to sentences by answering questions, such as which one?what kind? and how many?

exact words of a person; enclosed in quotation marks;begin each sentence of a direct quotation with a capital letter. use a comma to separate a direct quotation from a speaker tag.

enclose a persons exact words

paraphrase of someones words… quotation marks are not used…

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