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Abolitionist Writing

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writings that are anti-slavery

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Protest Poetry

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poetry that is written against something

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Rhyme Scheme

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an author’s pattern of rhyme with other lines in a poem or stanza

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Parallelism

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when words or phrases are repeated in a similar way but not identical

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Symbolism

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when a concrete object is used to represent something abstract

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Slave Narrative

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an account of the life or a major portion of the life of a former slave

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Autobiography

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someone writing about their own life

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Style

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the way in which an author writes and/or tells a story

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Tone

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the attitude of the author

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Audience

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the people reading or listening to a piece of writing

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Purpose

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the reason or intent in writing

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Objective approach

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arguments using impartial language, which is not personal, judgemental, or emotive

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Subjective approach

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based on the person’s opinions, individual experiences, and based influences instead of facts

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Diction

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the selection of words an author uses to create a specific impact or tone in their writing

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Local color

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the certain feel or color you think of in a certain place

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Setting

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the time, place, and environment

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Contrast

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when there is a noticeable difference between two people, places, things, or ideas

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Realism

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a literary movement that represents reality by portraying mundane, everyday experiences as they are in real life

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Dialect

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a combination of accent, sentence structure, and word choices, that make up each character’s unique voice

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Narrative point of view

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the voice in which the story is told, 1st, 2nd, or 3rd person

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First person

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the story is being told by the character, uses personal pronouns

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Third person limited

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a pov where the narrator only has access to one character’s perspective at a time

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Third person omniscient

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narrator knows all of the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters at all times

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Naturalism

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a literary movement that uses determinism, detachment, scientific objectivism, and social commentary. Life is determined by forces beyond your control, mainly heredity and environment

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Free verse

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no meter or rhyme scheme

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Repetition

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repeat of the same word, or phrase

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Catalog

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use of frequent lists of people, things and attributes in poetry

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Symbol

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a concrete person or thing that represents an abstract idea/quality

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Speaker

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the voice in a poem that talks to the reader

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Theme

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a statement (sentence) the author is making about life

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Paradox

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a statement that seems to contradict itself but may nevertheless suggest an important truth

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Metaphor

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a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable

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Extended metaphor

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a metaphor that goes on for multiple sentences or paragraphs

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Figurative language

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a type of communication that doesn’t use a word’s literal meaning

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Imagery

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descriptions that help set a certain tone or mood, they can appeal to any or all of the five sense

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Personification

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assigning inanimate objects human qualities

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Transitional poets

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poets that show some elements associated with romanticism, but not ignore the old conventions

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Experimental structure/style

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it experiments with the conventions of literature, including boundaries of genres and styles

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Slant rhyme

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a type of rhyme with words that have similar, but not identical sounds

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Quatrain

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a four-line stanza, often with various rhyme schemes

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Stanza

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a division of a poem consisting of two or more lines arranged together as a unit

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American Transcendentalism

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each individual has the potential for spiritual perfection, commune with nature/follow your heart, if each individual achieves perfection, then the world will be perfect, and don’t let the world get in the way

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Aphorism

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short saying that expresses a truth about life

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Brook Farm

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an attempt at creating a utopia, where everyone was perfectly equal

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Emotional appeal

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appeals to emotion that are often based on specific examples of suffering or potential

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Logical appeal

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provide rational arguments to support the writers claims

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Inductive/Deductive reasoning

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beginning with examples or facts, or starting with a generalization or promise

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Dark/Gothic Romanticism

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the dark side of human nature, did it to show what happens to bad people so people avoid

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Parable

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delivers a moral message using characters that change in the story

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Dynamic/Round character

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characters that change throughout the story

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Allegory

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a story which teaches a moral lesson through the use of symbolic characters (static/flat, don’t change) and objects that represent abstract ideas such as greed, evil, purity, etc.

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Omniscient narrator

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Omni= all, niscient= all knowing, all knowing narrator that can see and hear inside the mind of all of the characters, god like voice

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Characterization

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how the narrator informs the reader the type of character it is

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Situational irony

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In a particular situation something unexpected happens or is said

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Stock character

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a well known or stereotypical character

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Static/flat character

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A character that does not change

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Faust Legend

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a long tradition of folklore stories where a person makes a deal with the devil selling their soul for earthly power, money, talent, etc

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Slave Narrative

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an account of the life or a major portion of the life of a former slave

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Autobiography

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someone writing about their own lifes as they are in real life

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Nada

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indicating the absence of meaning, value, worth, etc.

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Existentialism

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a philosophical and literary perspective that focuses on experience of an individual person and the way that he or she understands the world

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The Lost Generation

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a group of American writers who worked in Europe between WWII and the Great Depression

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Code Hero

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a man who lives correctly, following the ideals of honor, courage, and endurance, in a world that is sometimes chaotic, often stressful, and always painful

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Modernism

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a literary movement that focuses on contemporary elements

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Alienation

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when a person is separated from some essential aspect of their nature, or from society

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Isolation:

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a state of aloneness in which you truly feel cut off from others because of your location or emotions

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Allusion

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Allusion is a figure of speech, in which an object or circumstance from an unrelated context is referred to covertly or indirectly

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Stream of Consciousness

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a narrative style that tries to capture a character’s thought process in a realistic way

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Epigraph

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a short quote included at the beginning of a piece of writing

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verbal irony

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when what was said is the opposite of the literal meaning

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Flashback

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a literal flashback to an earlier time in the story, or before the story

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Protagonist

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the hero/main character

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Foreshadowing

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when the author hints to something that will happen later in the story

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Motif

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a repeated pattern (image, symbol, sound, word) that comes back again and again within a particular story

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Jazz Age

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refers not just to the musical style but to the 1920s culture and literature as well

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Postmodernism

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Rejects concepts of rationality, objectivity, and universal truth. Emphasizes the diversity of human experiences and multiplicity of perspectives

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