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Wanted to purify the church

And writing consisted of recording history and sermons (nonfiction)

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Puritan

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Separate from the church

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Separatist

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John Calvin- God choses who will be saved/doomed

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Predestination (Puritan belief)

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Name for gods chosen people who will be saved

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Elect

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Gods gift to the elect

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Grace

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Evidence of gods grace

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Good works

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Simplicity: dress, writing, architecture, art

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Plain style

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“The new Israelites” covenant - New England for fiying the church

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Divine mission (Puritan belief)

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Year separatists came to New England

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1620- William Bradford

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Year puritans came to New England

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1630-john Winthrop

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Of Plymouth plantation

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Written by Bradford
MAYFLOWER COMPACT: rules why pilgrims are there
STARVING TIME: lack of food, they came in fall. Next winter-THANKSGIVING

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A model of christian charity

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Written by Winthrop

Rules and guidelines- “a city upon a hill”

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Puritan view on the individual and community

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Community is more important. Teamwork. Mission driven.

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Puritan view on nature

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Afraid of the unknown. Original sin. Need rules

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Puritan view on knowledge

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Holy war. Good vs devil
BIBLE AND TRADITION
No upward mobility or religious freedom

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Puritan view on the American Dream

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Theocratic- no separation of church and state

“Socialist” equal everything- everyone is the same

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Date range of the enlightenment

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1700-1820

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We were immature/ignorant, but now we are maturing/questioning
Philosophical basis for the American Revolution
Coincides with the rise of science and industrial revolution
Writing is practical and philosophical

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Enlightenment

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Scientific understanding- cornerstone of enlightenment. Logical thinking

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Reason

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Science. Belief on what is measured or seen CENTER

Universe is a logical and ordered system

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Empiricism (enlightenment belief)

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Rejects supernatural aspects of religion

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Deism

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BLANK SLATE. Fundamentally needing God. Rejects predestination and original sin

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Tabula rasa

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Practical, down to earth, decisions on reason

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Pragmatic

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Galileo

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Telescope/earth orbits around sun
Opened the door for thinking
Shut out of the church

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Newton

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Laws of physics

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Locke

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Tabula rasa

Human potential and education equality

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27
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Kant

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Maturing

Philosophical politics

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28
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Enlightenment attitude toward individual vs society

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Individualism

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Enlightenment attitude toward nature

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Exploration- understand/ control/ manipulate
Industrial rev
Anthropocentric/ tabula rasa

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Enlightenment attitude toward knowledge

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Asking questions- empiricism

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Enlightenment attitude toward the American Dream

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Basis for democracy/ social mobility

Equality w/slaves

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32
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Romanticism time period and characteristics

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1815-1865
Nonfiction (short stories/novels)
Birth of american literature
Individual spirituality is at the center
Emphasis on feelings and emotions over reason
Attempt to connect with nature
Against industrial revolution

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Four I’s

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Imagination
Intuition
Individual
Idealism

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34
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The dark, interested in death and the devil

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Gothic

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Specific movement with small group of writers living in concord mass.
Distilled romanticism- more intense appreciation of nature
SEEK THE MORE

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Transcendentalism

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36
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The force- everything is connected/diving

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Over soul (enlightenment)

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37
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The belief that there isn’t one God. God is everywhere

Transcendental idea

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Pantheism

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38
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Relationship between European and american romanticism

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American is imitation

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39
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Relationship between industrial revolution and romanticism

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Romanticism is against industrial rev

- caused romanticism

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Relationship between civil war and romanticism

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Civil war ended romanticism

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41
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Relationship between westward expansion/manifest destiny and romanticism

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Westward expansion/ manifest destiny encouraged nature and exploring spirit (optimism)

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42
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Date of puritans

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1600-1700

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43
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Who wrote the way to wealth

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Ben Franklin wrote this book of advice based on work ethic and frugality

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44
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Who wrote the autobiography

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Ben Franklin wrote this book about his life, but he died before he could finish

45
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Who wrote the age of reason

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Thomas Paine wrote this book on his ideas and beliefs of the bible, and the Catholic Church corruption

46
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Who wrote letters from an American farmer

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Crevecoeur wrote what is an American that explained what the life of an American was like

47
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Who wrote the interesting narrative of the life of

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Equiano wrote this book about his life being a slave in Africa and in the United States

48
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Who wrote to a waterfowl

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Bryant wrote this book about watching a bird at a pond and questioning his whereabouts

49
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Who wrote thanantopsis

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Bryant wrote this book about nature

50
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Who wrote the birthmark

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Hawthorne wrote this book about removing something from his wife’s face

51
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Who wrote young goodman brown

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Hawthorne wrote this book about going to a hell ceremony and back

52
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Who wrote a tell tale heart

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Poe wrote this book about the man that kills a man and puts him under the floorboards

53
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Who wrote the raven

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Poe wrote this book about a bird that never leaves

54
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Who wrote the masque of the red death

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Poe wrote this book about the different rooms in a party that the disease goes through (death)

55
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Who wrote walden

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Thoreau wrote this book about living in the wilderness

56
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Self reliance

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Emerson wrote this book about transcendentalism and individualism

57
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Realism

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1865-1914 movement

58
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Realism

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Writing is fiction and non fiction and served as a platform for social criticism
Artistic and literary movement attempt to portray life as it really is
Emphasis on commonplace/ ordinary

59
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Civil war

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Causes realism and is the opposite of romanticism

Forced america to take a hard look in the mirror at the horror/tragedy of war

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Urban industrial society

Industrial revoulution

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Gilded age (realism)

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Racial inequality, share cropping, gender inequality

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Social issues (realism)

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Fear of foreign cultures

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Xenophobic (realism)

63
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Using humor and exaggeration to mock and criticize human weakness

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Satire (realism)

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The appearance of truth

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Verisimilitude

65
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A form of realism that views humans as simply another species ruled by outside forces (natural selection, instinct) rules out idea of divine provenance

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Naturalism

66
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Life is controlled by outside forces

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Determinism

67
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Form of realism that focus’ on a particular region of America

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Regionalism

68
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Slang words from a region

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Dialect

69
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Wrote open boat- stuck at sea-nature is indifferent to man

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Stephen crane

70
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Wrote The damned human race- humans are not better than animals

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Mark twain

71
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Wrote Law of life- death comes to all

To build a fire- tried to build a fire and died

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Jack London

72
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Modernism period

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1915-1955

73
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Art/literature which intentionally rejects rules and past experiences. Doesn’t conform with other eras

NOT a undefined coherent movement

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Modernism

74
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Key characteristics of modernism

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Experimentation
Defiance of tradition
Fragmentation

75
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Ww1

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Modernism- response to ww1

Complete annihilation of the world as we knew it

76
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Existentialism

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There is no meaning- it is up to humans to create meaning

77
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Idealism

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Loss of belief in absolutes
Ironically consumerism replaces idealism
traditional systems have failed

78
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Technological change in modernism

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Automobile 
Decline of high culture
Great migration 
Immigration 
Prohibition 
Jazz age/roaring 20s
Einstein and froid- no absolute laws
79
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Harlem Renaissance

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A surge in black art, culture, social, and political activity in NY during the 20s and 30s

80
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Wrote 
"I too" 
"Harlem" 
"Theme for english B" 
Modernism
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Langston hugs

81
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Most recognizable poet from modernism 
Wrote 
"Fire and ice"
"Nothing gold can stay"
"The road not taken"
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Robert frost

82
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Wrote
“The great gatsby”
Modernism

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

83
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Wrote
“In another country”
Modernism

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Ernest Hemingway

84
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Wrote
“Hallow men”
Modernism

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T.S Elliot

85
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A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one

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Allegory

86
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The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

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Alliteration

87
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An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly

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Allusion

88
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Relatively complicated and do not change throughout the course of a work (two dimensional)

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Flat character

89
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Complex and undergo development sometimes sufficiently to surprise the reader

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Round character

90
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Undergoes little or no inner change; a character who does not grow or develop

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Static character

91
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Dramatic character who undergoes an important change in personality or attitude

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Dynamic character

92
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Process by which the personality of a fictitious character is revealed through the characters speech, actions, or appearances

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Indirect characterization

93
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Psychological struggle with in the mind of a literary character (plot)

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Internal conflict

94
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Struggle between a character and an outside force such as nature or another character (action)

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External conflict

95
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Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally

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Hyperbole

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Figure of speech- a word or phrase is applied to an object or action which is not literally applicable

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Metaphor

97
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Figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind (description)

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Simile

98
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Attitude of the writer toward a subject or audience (choice of words)

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Tone

99
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A word that sounds like what it represents

Ex. Bang! Pop!

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Onomatopoeia

100
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The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non human

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Personification

101
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Occurs when incongruity appears between expectations of something to happen and what actually happened
(Opposite of what was intended)

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Situational irony

102
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When a person says or writes one thing but means another

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Verbal irony

103
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Drama understood by the audience but not grasped by characters in the play

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Dramatic irony

104
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Story is narrated by one single character

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First person

105
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Narrator only knows thoughts and feelings of one character

All other characters are described as “they, he she”

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Third person limited

106
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The narrator knows feelings, thoughts, and actions of all characters

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Third person omniscient

107
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A group of lines forming basic recurring metrical unit in a poem/verse

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Stanza

108
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A thing that represents or stands for something more than itself

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Symbol

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The subject a talk, a piece of writing, someone’s thoughts, or a topic

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