Midterm Review for World Literature

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What is potential?

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A natural ability or quality that could develop to make a person good at something.

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What is a parenthetical citation?

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A citation that appears in parentheses within the text, e.g., (Dickens 14).

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What is the past perfect tense of a verb?

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It indicates an action that was completed before another action in the past.

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What is perception?

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The way you use your senses to become aware of things.

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What is an independent clause?

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A group of words that can stand alone as a sentence, containing a subject and a verb.

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What does the term 'distinct' mean?

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Recognizably different in nature from something else.

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What is distortion in literature?

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A change in the original form or meaning of something, often leading to misinterpretation.

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What is the significance of context in literature?

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Context refers to the circumstances surrounding a text that influence its meaning.

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What is a theme in literature?

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The central topic, subject, or message within a narrative.

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What is a metaphor?

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A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'.