Years ago I learned that our national highway system has built-in runways for emergency landing strips. Is this still true? What newspapers did Frederick Douglass write for? I know that the days of the week are all named after Norse or Roman gods or the sun and moon, but I can't figure out what Tuesday is named for.
Do you know? Can you give me a brief history of Prussia? Who were the Ottomans? Who discovered oxygen? How did Peter I of Russia come to power?
What can you tell me about Kwanzaa? What is the Alma-Ata declaration? I've heard that in some countries, everyone has to sign up for the military between high school and college. How were women treated in Ancient Rome?
What is the history and meaning of Turkey's flag? How are justices to the US Supreme Court elected Is this a good or a bad thing How did ounce come to be abbreviated as oz.? Why did Cromwell dissolve the first Protectorate parliament?
What place did the underworld have in Egyptian mythology? Can you explain Lincoln's Gettysburg Address in words that a teen can understand? Who was the most famous mathematician? Where did Christopher Columbus land when he reached the Americas? How did Zeus become ruler of the Greek gods?
What is antidisestablishmentarianism? What is Leningrad known as today? Who were the leading figures in the Classical period of music? Who wrote, A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still"? What was the cause of the War of Spanish Succession? What is the song Yankee Doodle Dandy" really about?
How does history reflect what people were thinking at the time? My teacher says there's more than one kind of history.
How can that be? What were the turning points in World War II? We just started studying Spanish exploration in North America. What makes it so important today? What was it like for women in the s?
Have Americans always been big on sports? Who invented baseball? What did American Indians have to give up for pioneers? How did imperialism spread around the world? How did Imperialism in India come about? What's the big deal about Manifest Destiny? How did the Tet Offensive affect public opinion about the Vietnam War? Where do the four suits in a deck of cards originate? What do they represent? What was the Roe v. Wade trial? Who is Constantine?
I need to know some info on the Monroe Doctrine. I have looked everywhere but I still can't find any information. Where did the chair originate from? I was sitting on one the other day and it said Made in China," but where did it first come from? Everyone talks about how enlightened the Mayans were, but what did they really do? What caused the fall of the Roman Empire? Did Christianity play a role? What was the reason for the downfall of the Russian Empire in ? What prompted slavery?
Why were the Africans chosen for enslavement? How did World War I start and end? What is The Palestinian Conflict? I don't really understand the French Revolution. What started it, and what stopped it? What was the doctor's diagnosis of Helen Keller when she was a baby?
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I hate finding typos in books. Here's one I've seen several times: jalousies instead of jealousies. On the second week of my summer job at a bookstore, my boss handed me an envelope with what she called my emoluments.
Looked like a paycheck to me, though. In To Kill a Mockingbird, what are some examples of the characters having courage? What's cud? I was once told to stop chewing my cud and get back to work.
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Last Valentine's Day, this guy I barely know gave me a rose and said something about ardent love. What does ardent mean? What kind of literature is a picaresque novel? What does culpable mean? What's a cenotaph? What does gallimaufry mean in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo? My vocabulary is pretty good, but that one has me stumped! What does it mean to genuflect? Someone told me I was looking wistful. What is wistful? In David Copperfield, what does superannuated mean?
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What does cicatrize mean? What is a noisome smell" in Tolstoy's War and Peace? In Jane Eyre, what's syncope? I just read Dracula. What's the forcemeat in Jonathan Harker's journal? Can the word stern mean more than one thing?
Where is Yoknapatawpha county? What does smouch mean? How do you pronounce quay? And what does it mean, anyway? What are some examples of paradox in the novel Frankenstein?
In Ivanhoe, what does mammock mean? What does rummage mean? Is a mummer some type of religious person? Some guy I don't like told his friend I was acting all demure. When I complained about our cafeteria food, my biology teacher told me he wished they'd serve agarics. Was he talking about some kind of dessert? Where did the name Of Mice and Men come from?
What genre would you consider the book, The Outsiders? In Fahrenheit , why would a society make being a pedestrian a crime? What does the phrase, a worn-out man of fashion" mean from Jane Eyre?
My teacher told me I was being obdurate. Was that a compliment? What motives inspired Iago to plot revenge against Othello? Who was the first king of Rome? What does enervate mean? What is a parvenu? Is salubrity somehow related to being famous? Do capers have something to do with cops? What's the difference between a soliloquy and a monologue? What's a pandybat? Does the word inexorable have something to do with driving demons out of a person?
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Define mood as it relates to a work of fiction. Distinguish mood from effect. My sister calls me the Princess of Prevarication. This biography I'm reading about Queen Victoria says that she refused to remove the hatchment she had for her husband Prince Albert.
What does that word mean? What does sine qua non mean? What's lugubrious mean? What's impugn mean, from Ivanhoe? What does postprandial mean? I love reading fashion magazines and occasionally come across the word atelier. What does King Lear mean when he says that ingratitude is a marble-hearted fiend"? In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein , what are disquisitions? What's shrive? My neighbor said she's been unshriven for years, but I think her skin looks quite shriveled.
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I know what mulch is, but what's mulct? When our teacher was introducing the next reading assignment, he said we'll be using the unexpurgated version. What did he mean? For some reason, the word dingle sticks in my head after having read Treasure Island years ago.
I never did discover what it meant. How about it, Cliff? In Dracula , what's stertorous breathing? What does philippic mean?
I'm usually pretty good at guessing what words mean, but have no clue about exigence. What is it? What's doughty? How do you pronounce it? What's sharecropping? I'm kind of embarrassed to ask, because it's one of those words everyone assumes you know what it means. I'm working on my summer reading list with Kafka's The Trial.
The very first sentence uses traduce , and I don't know what that means. What does the cormorant bird symbolize in mythology? I saw the word badinage in the book Uncle Tom's Cabin. Do you think that's a typo that really should be bandage? Static Character Definition What is a static character?
Some additional key details about static characters: The opposite of a static character is a dynamic character : one who does undergo internal changes over the course of a story. Static characters can be protagonists, antagonists, or other minor characters, and a narrative can have more than one static character. Just because a character is static does not mean that they are "bad" or overly simplistic.
On the contrary, many static characters—like Romeo, for instance—are quite complex. Many of literature's most lifelike and memorable characters are static. How to Pronounce Static Character Here's how to pronounce static character: stat -ik kar -ik-ter Static Characters in Depth Most stories contain more static characters than dynamic characters.
Static Character vs. Dynamic Character Learning to spot a static character is much easier when you understand its opposite, dynamic character: A dynamic character undergoes substantial internal changes as a result of one or more plot developments. The dynamic character's change can be extreme or subtle, as long as his or her development is important to the book's plot or themes. Unlike a static character, a dynamic character is a different person at the end of the story relative to who they were when the story began.
But because these changes are typically implied by the character's actions or thoughts rather than being stated outright, spotting them often depends on close reading and careful analysis of the text. How to Spot a Static Character Here are few things to look for when trying to determine if a story contains a static character: What is the character like at the story's beginning and its end?
Think about what defined each character when you first encountered them in the story. Take stock of their values, personality traits, goals, motivations, and beliefs. By the end of the story, has something happened to change any of these things for the character? If not, they're probably a static character. What is the character's ambition? Often, static characters have an unwavering sense of who they are and what they want. Take the western film High Noon as an example: the antagonist, Frank Miller, is driven by an obsessive desire to take revenge on another character—a desire which is unwavering throughout the story.
His goal does not change as the plot develops, which makes him a static character. How do others react to this character? The film The Big Lebowski centers around a character referred to simply as "the Dude," a lovable slacker with a laid-back attitude who is assaulted by robbers who break into his house and leave it in shambles. The Dude enlists his two best friends Walter and Donnie to help him track down the robbers. Their various foibles annoy each other, but never really threaten their friendship, and never cause any of them to re-assess themselves or change other than the fact that one of them dies.
Gauging the way others treat him over the course of the film is one clue that the Dude is a static character. It also shows that Walter and Donnie are static characters, too.
In fact, every character in The Big Lebowski is static, which in now way reduces its greatness as a movie. Is the character's environment shaping him or her?
In Lewis Caroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland , Alice falls through a rabbit hole and spends most of the novel wandering around Wonderland and encountering zany characters.
While Alice reacts to her environment she cries, becomes insulted, is afraid, and even physically grows and shrinks , she isn't fundamentally altered by her adventures.
This makes her a good example of a static character. The same goes if his impressive stock portfolio goes up in the smoke in a bear market. He might remain the same cheerful, humble, easy-going, out-going fellow he was before this fortunate turn of events. Or he might remain the same bitter, cynical, resentful, suspicious, selfish person he had always been. Or he might continue to be the same smug, arrogant snob he's already exhibited himself to be.
In any of these cases, we'd have an instance of static character. Of course such a drastic change in one's circumstances whether good fortune or bad might motivate a change in one's outlook on life. And if -- but only if -- it results in this sort of change, we are confronted with a dynamic character. This means that, while we certainly do want to take account of what the story implies as the motivation of this "change in character," we don't want to include these causal or conditional factors as part of our description of what the change in character consists in.
A "factor" is not an "element. But we will not do ourselves justice if we are content with merely recalling the details of his worsening physical condition, and never get round to reflecting on j ust what are the exact changes in assumptions and feelings he undergoes between his awareness that he is not physically well and the moment of his death.
Among other things, we'll miss the central paradox of the story, that while he was "doing well," he was spiritually gravely ill, and that in gradually taking stock of this and in facing up to some newly emerging concerns, he eventually achieves a soundness of spirit more profound than that which he left behind with his childhood.
Even the formulation just given is too general to do justice to what we should take stock of, on the level of particulars, in the change of character Tolstoy wants to acquaint us with. Note, by the way, that what is going on "inside the body" counts as "external circumstance" from the point of view we are adopting here. It is not a "change internal to the character" in the sense in which we are using the terms "internal" and "character" at the moment! Some tips on using these concepts in a clear and tactful way.
She never realized that the reserve of her own character had much, perhaps everything, to do with this. Messa urges the king to send a new governor, and gives his advice as to the character of him who should be sent.
Some peculiar lines between these contracted brows gave a character of ferocity to this forbidding and sensual face. New Word List Word List.
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