English Final Flashcards

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“This is how I wanna die into that rushing beast into the night sucked up from that great dragon.”

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The starry night- By Sexton

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Ret Kiley carried comic books, carried a new testament

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The things they carried by Tim oBrain

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“This is some dream that on the deck you’ve fallen cold and dead.”

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Captain my captain-Walt Whitman

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A foot in poetry is know as what?

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Iamb

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5
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What was the title of Gwendolyn Brooks elderly tribute story?

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The Bean Eaters

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character in a narrative who contrasts with another character, usually the protagonist, to highlight certain qualities of the protagonist

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Foil

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Edgar allen poe used this two word device

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Unreliable Narrator

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Poetry using parallelism and repetition rather than meter rhyme and rhythm- two words

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Free Verse

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An extended metaphor developed at length is know as what?

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Metaphorical Conceit

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Writing that ridicules a vise to correct it is know as what?

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Satire

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The character in the action who produces the conflict is known as what.

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Antagonist

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“We lurk late, we strike straight, we thin gin, we jazz June, we die soon.”

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We real cool by Gwendolyn Brooks.

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13
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If her horny feet protrude, they come
To show how cold she is, and dumb.
Let the lamp affix its beam.

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the emporer of ice cream- Wallace Stevens

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14
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A doll house by epison

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15
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In her verse Walt Whitman denounces modesty and say every part of the body is vile, what english movement was he denouncing

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Victorianism

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Steven Cranes the open boat with sharks waves and wind opposing the men is know as what opposing movement?

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Naturalism

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What you right about what you feel about see touch taste and smell what imagery are you using.

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Sensory imagery

18
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In a street car named desire he uses this game as the central metaphor.

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Poker

19
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After the dinner party Robert warning includes this literary device with a play on words.

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Pun

20
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In
Dickinson i heard a blue buzz is what literary device?

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sysnstia

21
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The secondary action in a story that reinforces it called the what?

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Subplot

22
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A type in literature like poetry, fiction.

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Genre

23
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Just opposing objects and images for effect is know as what

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Parallelism

24
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A paragraph in a poem is know as what?

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Stansa

25
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Two consecutive lines of poetry usually rhyming is known as what?

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Couplett

26
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Whitman inspires vangoh who inspires sexton?

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The starry night

27
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upon its head with red extended mouth and fire with the red hideous beast.

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Black Cat- Edgar Allen Poe

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Haven’t you ever heard of the napoleonatic code let me enlighten you baby.

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Tennessee Williams
-street car named desire

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“The carriage held but just Ourselves - And Immortality,”

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Because I could not stop for death Emily dickinson

30
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What what i’ve tasted from desire I hold with those who play with fire.

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Robert frost-fire and ice

31
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He created his own reality cool aid reality and was able to illuminate himself by it.

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Trout fishing in America-Richard Brautigan

32
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Older he might’ve divined the true reason that the element of fire spoke the deep mainstream in his being .

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Barn burning William Faulkner

33
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It isn’t enough to be soft, you’ve gotten be soft and attractive and i’m fading. I don’t know how much long I can turn the trick

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a street car named desire Tennesse williams

34
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“He was as dead as a doornail.”

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A Christmas carol- charles Dickens

35
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After brighten Blanc slams the door in the blind women’s face, she says the opposite of desire is this?

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Death

36
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In the open boat it begins with an open it begins with none of them knew the color of the what.

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The sky

37
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Emily Dickinson wrote most of her poems in four feet known as what

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Tetrameter