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3rd person

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Narrator outside of the story

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1st person point if view

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Is told by a narrator using the first person pronoun “I”

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3rd person omniscient

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Is told by a narrator the viewpoint of a character in the third person includes the thoughts of the character

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3rd person limited

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Told by a narrator that only sees what one character sees and feels and does not include thoughts and feelings of other characters

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Protagonist

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Main character

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Antagonist

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Opposes the protagonist

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Flat or static characters

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Stays the same throughout the story

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Round dynamic characters

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Changes throughout the story

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External conflict

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Man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. society

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Internal conflict

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Man vs. self

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Theme

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Central idea or message

Can be directly stated or implied about the topic

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Symbolism

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An object that represents a concept larger than itself

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Setting

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Physical- where

Chronological- when

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Henry David Thoreau

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Was a leading transcendentalist
Best known for his book walden
His literary style interweaves closely with natural observation and personal experience
Concord hymn -“Fired the shot heard round the world”
Refused to pay taxes supporting the Mexican American war so he went to jail and called Emerson hist teacher, to bail him out

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Emerson

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“Trust thyself” to be great is to misunderstood”
Father of transcendentalism
Wrote nature a collection of essays
Urged independent thinking and not all of life’s answers are found in books

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Vonnegut

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Studied biochemistry and anthropology worked as a police reporter
He was a prisoner of war witnessed the allied bombing of the German city of Dresden, uses simple language and comical situations to satirize sacred institutions

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Lorraine Hansberry

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First black women playwright to achieve success on broadway
A raisin in the sun won the New York drama critics circle award
She lived in an all white neighborhood
Went to university of Wisconsin for two years and studied painting
Died of cancer at a very young age

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Walt Whitman

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19th century rebel
Traveled all over the United States
Didn’t care about others opinions

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Emily Dickinson

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Belle of Amherst
Inspiration from nature and self
Published one poem posthumously
Uses dashes, personification, slant rhymes
Poems go to the rhythm of id like to buy the world a coke

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Anne moody

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She was the daughter of poor sharecroppers in rural Mississippi
Witnessed her neighbors house set on fire killing them inside
Spent summers working in a factory
Saved money so she could go to her dream college
She Was involved in the civil rights movement

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Martin Ginsberg

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Editor for the New York Times magazine for 43 years, lived Brooklyn

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Born in Salem descendent of a judge that judged the Salem witch trails, after college he went into isolation for 12 years he wrote the scarlet letter, one the first mass produced books in America

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Edgar Allen Poe

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Was tormented throughout his life, mother died when he was young, friend remember the video

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Thomas Jefferson

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“Renaissance man”
Writer, scientist
His home is an architectural masterpiece, montecello
He was a young radical
Ambassador to France
Secretary of State to the third president

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Allegory

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Is a work of literature in which people objects and events stand for abstract qualities such as evil, compassion, greed etc.

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Foreshadowing

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Use of hints in events to prepare the reader for what will happen

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Mood

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The feeling created by the writer in a literary work

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Irony

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The contrast between what appears to be true and what is actually true

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Verbal irony

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When a writer says one things but means something completely different

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Figurative language

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Words that convey ideas beyond their ordinary meaning

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Style

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The particular way you do something

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Free verse

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Lines do not rhyme nor is there a set rhythm

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Transcendentalist

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Stressed intuition, individualism and self reliance
Focuses on human spirit reflected in nature
Each person is basically good capable and worthy
Not a religion but believes in the soul

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Nonconformist

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Someone who does not go a long with societies style

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Essay

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A brief nonfiction article

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Figures of speech

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Metaphors, similes, personification etc.

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Off rhymes

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Words that do not rhyme exactly

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Satire

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The stories make fun of certain foolish ideas to make a strong point

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Fantasies

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Stories told in a bizarre and often futuristic world

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Science fiction

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Fictional, focuses, on science, and facts and discoveries

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Free verse

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Lines do not rhyme , or there is not a set rhythm

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Parallelism

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Phrases are often repeated

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Word choice

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Contractions and other informal words are used and technical and foreign words

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Dialect

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The distinct form of a language as it is spoken in a particular way

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Romanticism

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Stresses imagination, intuition, individualism
Emotion over intellect
Driven by reactions to Puritan religion and the age of reason
Imagination, individuality, nature source of spirituality, common man as a hero

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EE Cummings

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Was in jail for being wrongly accused as a German spy

he experiments with poetry

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