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Proverbs and Idioms flashcards
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Metaphor

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Comparing things by saying one IS the other

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Personification

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Giving an object human attributes

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Alliteration

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Repetition of a sound at the beggining of words

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Anaphora

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Repetition at the beginning of lines

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Hyperbole

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Heavy exaggeration

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Caesura

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Pause in the middle of a line

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Assonance

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Using the same sound in the middle of words

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Simile

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Saying something is like something else

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Juxtaposition

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Compare things side by side

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Chillingworth

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Dimmesdale

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Hawthorne

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Dark Romantic
Fallibility of man
Anti puritan
Good and evil
Fear of the unknown in nature
Nobodies innocent

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13
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Poe

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Gothic
His own nightmares
Duality - Searched for ideal reality but faced his problems head on
Inevitability of death

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Thoreau

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Transcendentalist
Walden pond - almost fully secluded
Focus on the individual

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Whitman

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NATURE - leaves of grass
Natural world around him
Common man
Nationalism
Individual
Prolly gay and didn’t hide it

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Dickinson

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Transcendentalist
Very religious upbringing
Immorality of the soul
Supernatural and death
Human rights - very feminist
Individual
Nature and natural imagery

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