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“She said she died of heart disease of joy that kills”

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Kate Chopin- story of an hour

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2
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“They rose when they enter i have no taxes in jefferson”

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Faulkner- Rose for emily

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“Unless my all my science has deceived me your are fit for heaven without death”

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Dan Hawthorn-The Birthmark

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4
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“Fiction is that is developed through gloom terror and darkness”

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Gothic

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5
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A short passage spoken in an undertone

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Aside

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6
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Characters contrasting for effect

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Foil

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7
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4 Feet of poetry is known by this phrase

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Tetraminta

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8
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My mistress eyes 14 lines and written in the form of what

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Sonnet

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9
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The use of one sense to describe an another is called

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Sinestesia

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10
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The author’s attitude toward places and people is known as what?

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Tone

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11
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Moment when someone reaches a revelation

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Epiphany

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12
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So much depends on this Glazed with the rain water beside the white chickens

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Red wheelbarrow by william carlos williams

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13
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers

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The negro speaks the river by houston hugh

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The negro speaks the river 4 rivers used in text

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Nile, euphrates, congo, mississippi

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“Rage, Rage, against the dying of the light”

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Do Not go gentle into the night - dylan thomas

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16
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Changes through course of action

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Dynamic character

17
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This presents courageous individuals when in defeat or death

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Tragedy

18
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Saying one thing and meaning the opposite

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Verbal Irony

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the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

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Personification

20
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Speech given my character by on stage solo

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Sylilique

20
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When poets place themselves in their poetry they are using what

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Persona

21
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“I kissed thee ere I killed thee: no way but this, Killing myself, to die upon a kiss”.

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Othello shakespeare

21
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“The crimson hand”

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The birthmark

22
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A character who does not change throughout action

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Static

23
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A reference made to something widely known

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Allusion

23
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He was a gentleman from soul to crown clean favored and imperially slim

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Richard Corey

24
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They all knowing narrator is known as what point of view

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Ominouision

25
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The yoking together of opposites is known by what

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Oxymoron

26
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“She must have been kicked unseen or brushed by a car as her heart laid down forever.”

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Dog deaths by john updike

27
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The author says one thing but the author means the opposite

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Dramatic irony

28
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An extended metaphor

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Metaphysical conceit

29
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a statement or situation that seems contradictory or opposed to common sense, but may actually be true

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Paradox

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