| Name: | Literary terms, part III: research and lit movements |
| Description: | Commonwealth of Virginia SOL literary terms. Part III: research and literary movements |
| Keywords: | literature, English |
| # Cards: | 18 |
| Q1: | A statement of the purpose, intent, or main idea of a paper |
| A1: | thesis |
| Q2: | A preliminary plan of a paper. |
| A2: | outline |
| Q3: | The supplying of documents or supporting references or records for a paper. |
| A3: | documentation |
| Q4: | The act of presenting someone else's ideas as your own. |
| A4: | plagarism |
| Q5: | A prescribed form of documentation set forth by the Modern Language Association. |
| A5: | MLA format |
| Q6: | A listing of all the sources you have cited in your text. |
| A6: | works cited |
| Q7: | Sources you may have read or studied but did not refer to in your paper. |
| A7: | bibliography |
| Q8: | Restating what you have read using your own words. |
| A8: | paraphrasing |
| Q9: | Using the exact words of the author. Quotation marks must be placed before and after. |
| A9: | direct quotes |
| Q10: | Used in research when the researcher is personally involved in gathering facts, finding examples, and forming ideas (e.g. interviews, observations, questionnaires). |
| A10: | primary sources |
| Q11: | Information already found by someone else (e.g. books, magazines, etc.) |
| A11: | secondary sources |
| Q12: | A literary movement of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Generally exhibits some of the following: love of nature; focus on the individual; fascination with the supernatural, mysterious or gothic; yearning for the picturesque and exotic; a deep-rooted idealism; nationalism. |
| A12: | Romanticism |
| Q13: | An American philosophical and artistic attitude based on the belief that the most fundamental truths about life and death can be reached only by going beyond the world of the senses. Knowledge of this kind comes not through the mind's logic but through a deep, free intuition. |
| A13: | Transcendentalism |
| Q14: | A literary movement that portrays people caught within forces of nature or society that are beyond their understanding or control. Uses a quasi-scientific "facts-only" approach, heavy in detail. While often grim, the purpose is generally is to highlight ills so they can be corrected. |
| A14: | Naturalism |
| Q15: | A literary movement to produce literature that represents ordinary life as it actually is lived. More objective than subjective and often written about middle-class and lower-class people and reveals democratic sympathies. |
| A15: | Realism |
| Q16: | A collective term for the radically new ideas, forms, styles, and attitudes that revolutionized all the arts during the first three decades of the twentieth century. American writers, many of whom travelled frequently to Europe, experimented with new, more objective styles and freer-flowing forms. |
| A16: | Modernism |
| Q17: | The use in a literary work of characters and details unique to a particular geographic area. Can be created by the use of dialect and by descriptions of clothing, manners, attitudes, scenery, and landscape. |
| A17: | local color |
| Q18: | The way of speaking and writing that is particular to a specific region fo the country (often a trait of local color). |
| A18: | dialect |
