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Dictionary of Literary Terms - Unit 1? Flashcards

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Hypotaxis

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Where the details of the plot are portrayed sequentially and explicitally.

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Parataxis

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Where only some details are portrayed, connections are not explicit.

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Quatrain

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4-lined stanza.

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Enjambment

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Where a line continues onto the next.

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Repetition (example)

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Again, again.

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Personification

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Where non-humans, are given human attributes (physical, emotional).

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Rhyme (example)

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Weather, together.

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Internal Rhyme

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Rhyme unbroken by a line.

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Alliteration

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Where separate words begin with the same sound.

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Simile

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Comparison including ‘I’ and ‘as’

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1st Person

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‘I’

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2nd Person

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‘You’

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3rd Person

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‘He’ ‘She’ ‘They’

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Textual Self-reference

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The text references textual stuff.

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Hyperbole

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Exaggerate Expression.

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Chiasmus

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Rearranging of words to become exact opposites.
eg. see the leaves, leaves the sea.

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Polysemy

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Words/phrases with multiple meanings.

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Ekphrastic Poetry

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Vivid description of an artwork.

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Free Indirect Style

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The phrase/passage could be read as belonging to the narrator or a charcter.

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Metatextuality

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Where the author/narrator reveals themselves and their actions/interactions. ie. Fourth wall break.

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Intertextuality

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Where a text references or inferences another text.

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Indirect speech/dialogue

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“Hi”
“Hi!”

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Direct speech/dialogue

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“Hi”, said Joe

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Interior Focalisation

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Where a character’s thoughts are represented in the text. “I’m hungry”, thought Alvoli.

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Metre

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How many syllables per line?

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Tone

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How is it read?

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Consonance

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Consonant sounds in alliteration “bees knees.”

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Assonance

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Where separate words have (at any point) with same sound “bees knees.”

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Anaphora

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Starts with the same word/phrase:
No more, I wept,
No more, she stood.

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Epistrophe

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Ends with the same word/phrase:
I wept, no more
She stood, no more.

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Aposiopesis

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Where speech or thought is cut off, often with a -

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Iamb

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Da dum.

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Trochee

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Dum da.

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Epistolary Form

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A story/book comprised of letters.

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Limited Omniscience

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The narrator/storyteller doesn’t know everything about/in the story.

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Stream of Conscience

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Thoughts fall onto the page.

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Aphorism

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A statement of some general principle expressed memorably by condensing to a few words.
eg. ‘Give a man a mask and he will tell you the truth.’

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Epigram

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A short poem with a witty turn of thought, or a wittily condensed expression of prose.
eg. Preface for ‘The Painting of Dorian Grey.’

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Apophasis

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The declaration you will not define something, then proceed to define it.
eg. I will not define apophasis.

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Bildungsroman

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A coming of age story.

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Ellipses

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…

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Gothic

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Morbid. Overtly dark themes or settings. Usually with a hint of death.

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Hypen vs Dash

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Hyphen brings 2 things together, and dashes separate them.

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Italics

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Slanty writing. Emphatic writing.

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Sibilance

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Repeated ‘s’ sound.
eg. she sold seashells by the seashore.

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Mimesis

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To show.

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Diegesis

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To tell.

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High Romanticism - Period

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1790 - 1850

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High Romanticism - Movement

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People
- Wordsworth (The Solitary Reaper)
- Coleridge
- Keats

Definition
- ‘Spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling’ - William Wordsworth
- Away from Enlightenment obsession with reason

Ideals
- Love
- Hope
- Beauty

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High Romanticism - Style

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  • Natural analysis
  • Metaphor
  • Hyperbole
  • Odes
  • Sonnet
  • Lyrical ballads
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Gothic Romanticism - Period

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  • 1810-1830,
  • 1880-1940
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Gothic Romanticism - Movement

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People
- R.L. Stevenson
- Stoker
- Mary Shelly
- Edgar Allan Poe (The Raven)

Definition
- ‘Spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling’ - William Wordsworth
- Away from Enlightenment obsession with reason

Ideals
- Love
- Hope
- Beauty

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Gothic Romanticism - Style

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  • Novel
  • Epistolary
  • Grotesque
  • Medievalism
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The Fantastic/Uncanny - Period

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1810-1900

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The Fantastic/Uncanny - Movement

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People
- ETA Hoffman (Sandman)
- Gogol? (possible, depending on how you interpret ‘The Overcoat’)

Critic
- Sigmund Freud

Definition
- Incredible events can be explained as the products of the narrator’s or protagonist’s dream, hallucination, or delusion.

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The Fantastic/Uncanny - Style

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Gothic with a psychological focus

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Realism - Period

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1850-1914

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Realism - Movement

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Definition
- Away from the idealism of romanticism.
- Towards presentation of others, especially common experience.

People
- Moby Dick
- Tolstoy (The Death of Ivan Ilyich)
- Charles Dickens

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Realism - Style

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  • Prose
  • Description
  • Expressive
  • Experience as a time
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Bush Realism - Period

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1850-1914

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Bush Realism - Movement

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Definition
- Away from the idealism of romanticism.
- Towards presentation of others, especially common experience.

People
- Henry Lawson (The Drover’s Wife)

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Bush Realism - Style

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  • Prose
  • Description
  • Expressive
  • Experience as a time
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Social Realism - Period

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1890-1914

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Social Realism - Movement

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Definition
- Presentation of lives, especially common experiences in social, political or economic circumstances.

People
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman (The Yellow Wallpaper)

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Social Realism - Style

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Aims to display the short comings of society in order to compel improvement.

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Naturalism - Period

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1870-1914

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Naturalism - Movement

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People
- Emile Zola
- Jack London (To Build a Fire)
- Charles Darwin

Definition
- A style and theory of representation based on the accurate depiction of detail.

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Naturalism - Style

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Scientific process; determinism as opposed to romanticism, objectivity.

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Aestheticism - Period

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1880-1900

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Aestheticism - Movement

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People
- Oscar Wilde (Preface, The Picture of Dorian Grey)
- Dante Rosetti
- Whistler

Critic
- Wilde
- William Morris

Description
- Art should be made because art is beautiful
- No other reason is required.

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Aestheticism - Style

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Peacocks and a mix of Western and Eastern Styles

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Aestheticism - Style

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Peacocks and a mix of Western and Eastern art forms.

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Impressionism - Period

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1870-1914

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Literary Impressionism - Period

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1880-1920

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Impressionism - Movement

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Definition
- Saves painting especially after the invention of photography.

People
- Monnet
- Van Gough (post impressionism)

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Literary Impressionism - Movement

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Definition
- A concentration on the perceptions of characters and authors rather than external descriptions.

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Impressionism - Style

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  • Sense of movement
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Literary Impressionism - Style

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In Prose
- Limited omniscience
- Free indirect style
- Interior focalisation
- Defamiliarisation
- Symbolism

In Poetry
- Physiologies
- Emotional
- Intertextuality
- Experiential
- Fervent
- Short
- Direct

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Hope is the Thing with Feathers - Emily Dickinson

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  • 1861 (Period)
  • Transcendentalism (doubt this is going to come up as the ism, don’t worry about remembering it too much)
  • Metaphor and Symbolism (Style)
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The Solitary Reaper - William Wordsworth

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  • 1807 (Period)
  • High Romanticism (Movement)
  • Hyperbole and alliteration (Style)
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The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe

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  • 1845 (Period)
  • Gothic Romanticism (Movement)
  • Alliteration, internal rhyme, repetition, and onomatopoeia (Style)
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The Sandman - ETA Hoffman

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  • 1816 (Period)
  • The Fantastic/Uncanny (Movement)
  • Strongly narrated and generally rewriting mythology, fairytale and literature and devising fantasy worlds (Style)
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The Overcoat - Nikolai Gogol

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  • 1842 (Period)
  • Realism or Romanticism (Movement)
  • Conspiratorial, familiar, conversational (Style)
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The Drover’s Wife - Henry Lawson

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  • 1892 (Period)
  • Bush Realism (Movement)
  • Determined, contemplative, threatening, lonely, barren, melancholic, suspenseful (Style)
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The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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  • 1892 (Period)
  • Social Realism (Movement)
  • Imagery, metaphor, simile, personification, repetition, and connotative diction. (Style)
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To Build a Fire - Jack London

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  • 1908 (Period)
  • Naturalism (Movement)
  • Third-Person Omniscient POV (Style)
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Preface, The Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde

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  • 1890 (Period)
  • Aestheticism (Movement)
  • Metaphor, simile, personification, symbol, exaggeration and parallelism (Style)
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The Flowers of Evil - Charles Baudelaire

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  • 1857 (Period)
  • Impressionism (Movement)
  • Symbolism, contrast, and foreshadowing. (Style)
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The Bet - Anton Checkov

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  • 1889 (Period)
  • Impressionism (Movement)
  • Concise two-part story structure, ample metaphors and similes, and frequent foreshadowing. (Style)
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Street Haunting - Virginia Woolf

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  • 1927 (Period)
  • Impressionism + Art Writing (Movement)
  • People watching, escapism, individuality, urban anonymity (Style)
90
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Allegory

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  • Sustained metaphor
  • ‘the story behind the story’
  • Literal
  • Overt meaning

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