EnglishShortStoryKeyPointsAndTerms Flashcards

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The Horla

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Narrator tells of his gradual progress to insanity because he believes he is being inhabited by the Horla, that came from a Brazillian ship. He burns down his house, but decides the creature has lived and that he must kill himself.

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Gooseberries

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Signs and Symbols

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The Gardener

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The Gardner at the end of the story who shows Helen Turrel to her son may be a biblical reference to Jesus

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The Elephant’s Child

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The Signalman

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A Hunger Artist

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Eveline

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Indian Camp

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In Another Country

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Use of Force

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You Could Look It Up

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A Worn Path

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A Rose for Emily

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A Good Man is Hard to Find

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A Perfect Day for Bananafish

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A Mother’s Tale

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Sonny’s Blues

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A&P

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Reunion

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Harrison Bergeron

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The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

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Drez is the drink

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Girl

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I Stand Here Ironing

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The Things They Carried

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allegory

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an extended metaphor that connects the story with meanings (moral, social, religious, political) outside the story

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principle of utility

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the action is best which, if done, would result in the greatest balance of pleasure over pain for the greatest number of beings whose interest is in question

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code hero

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couragous, confident, calm; don’t show their sensitive side; fear nonbeing; face defeat in their own terms; usually scarred by experience

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iceberg principle

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removing certain parts of a story actually strengthens its effects

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Necrophilia

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obsessive fascination with corpses and death; sexual arousal relating to corpses