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English Test 1
English Test 1
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Undergraduate 1
10/10/2013

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Famous Pythagoras saying
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all things are numbers
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Pythagoras ideas were termed
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The music of the spheres
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the Trivium 1
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General Grammar - discovering and ordering facts of reality comprises basic, systematic knowledge
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the Trivium 2
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Formal Logic- Developing the facults of reason in establishing valid relationships among facts, systematic Understanding
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The Trivium 3
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Classic rhetoric - Applying knowledge and understanding expressively comprises wisdom, or is systematically useable knowledge and understanding
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Teaching of the Trivium
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Pyogymnasmata
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After the trivium, students could progress to the
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quadrivium - more specialized studies such as arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy.
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Plato Idea 1
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Philosopher King - natural leader of society is the idealistic person, lofty and intellectual.
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Plato Idea 2
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the Theory of Ideas (Forms) - reality is only a copy of truth. Truth exists only in the intellect and the idea. Copies are thus "forms" of truths ("ideas")
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Plato Idea 3
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Epistemology - search for the definition of Knowledge.
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Plato saw knowledge as
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Justified True Belief
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Belief
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One individual's viewpoint
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True Belief
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The fact that one's viewpoint can be true
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Justified True belief
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rationalization based on evidence
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Other terms with plato 1
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Socratic Method - method of education whereby the teacher allows the students to question him/her
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other terms with plato 2
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sophistry - argument which has no validity , sophists were often betrayed in ancient greece as celebrities.
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Ideas with Aristotle 1
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Doctrine of Ethos - Aristry and Intellect - dependent upon emotions.
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Ideas with Aristotle 2
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Erotic knowledge - idea that the intellect and the passions are caught up together in the search for truth.
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Platonic is the opposite of
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Erotic
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Who saw music and gymnastics as things which might lead the student stray
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Aristotle
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too much music leads to
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weakness and a non-caring attitude
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too much gymnastics lead to
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brutishness and shallowness
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Eudora Welty wrote
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Listening.
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Euroda Welty write in a ___ voice. She has a ____, ______ manner.
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inward voice. genteel, southern manner
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Sherman alexie wrote
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The joy of reading and writing, superman and me
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Sherman alexis is a ____ indian author who writes in a _____ style, even bringing in ___ ________ in the final paragraph to support his point.
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Amercican, freeform, new examples
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Anna Quindlen wrote
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Between the sexes, a great divide
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Anna Quindlen gives us a definite _ part essay, stating her _______ point with clarity
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3 part essay, feminist point
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Nathalie Angier wrote
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Men, Women, Sex, and Darwin
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Nathalie Angier writes from a ____ perspective, but with ____, exposing the _______ of her subjects
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feminist, satire, absurdity
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eudory Welty _____ __ _____ as an important part of reading
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speaks of sound
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Sherman Alexie, like Welty, speaks of his ________ ____ of reading stemming from observing his _______ ____ __ _______ and his own introduction to it through ________ ______
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inherent love, father's love of reading, superman comics
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Anna Quindlen uses the ____ ______ _____ _____ as a symbol of an ___________ ______ between the sexes. Yet she stresses the _________ __ ___ _____ ______ ________ over the inevitability of their differences
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high school dance floor, undefinable divide, importance of the sees coming together
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Nathalie Angier has written a ______ _____ ______ __ _________, such as ____________ _____________, with whom she __________ ____ ___ _____. She chooses to ______ them through _________ ____ __ _____ ___ _______ instead of clinical, academic definitions.
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satire about groups of academics, evolutionary psychologists, definitely does not agree, attack, absurdist made up words and phrases
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Three parts of essay are
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1st paragraph, the development, the conclusion
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1st paragraph contains
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thesis statement, tell what the essay is about
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development contains
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the bulk of the body of your essay, should be examples and arguments for the point which you are making
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conclusion contains
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sum up what you've said, reiterate your thesis in different words, but a period on your discussion of your topic
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Parts of speech
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1) nouns
2) verbs
3) adjectives
4) adverbs
5) pronouns
6) prepositions
7) conjunctions
8) interjections
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Theory of why people write 1
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sound first theory - sound and written word are linked to each other.
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Theory of why people write 2
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idea first theory - most important is the written word
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example of sound first
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haiku, which is expressed in one exhalation of breath
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example of idea first
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asian koan, an unanswerable riddle
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