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form

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structure, how it is constructed and organized

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genre

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specific style or category fo writing

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meaning

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the writer’s message

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4 major literary forms

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nonfiction prose, fiction prose, poetry, and drama

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nonfiction prose

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ordinary, non-metrical language and communicates facts or opinions about reality

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example of nonfiction prose

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text books, how-to articles

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fiction prose

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ordinary, non-metrical language, but is product of the write’rs imagination

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examples of fiction prose

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novels, short stories

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poetry

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metrical language with lots of rhythm and rhyme to create word pictures often with an obscure message

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drama

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combines elemtns of prose and poetry into plays that are usually intended to be performed on stage.

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Examples of nonfiction genre

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biographies, authobiographies, history texts, science books, how-to manuals, dictionaries

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Examples o ffiction genres

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fairy tales, fables, mystery, fantasy, science fiction, horror, adventure, romances

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poetry genres

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epics, elegies, lyrics, sonnets, odes and hymns

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epics

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long poems that tell teh action packed storeis of great heroes

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elegies

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thoughtful, sad poems that reflect on someone’s death

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lyrics

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quite short poems and focus on the speaker’s emotion

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sonnets

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14 lines long and follow strict patterns of rhym

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odes

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formal poems that usually celbrate someoen or soemthing

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hymns

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offer praise to God

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drama genres

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plays: comedies, morality, mystery, bible, or problem

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fiction categories

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short stories, novellas, and novels

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novels

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the longest of the three fiction categories:often have many characters and complicated plots

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novellas

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shorter than novels and tend to have less characters and less complicated plots than novels

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short stories

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range in length from a few pages to 30 pages or more

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fables

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short tales that feature animals given human-like qualities to deliver a lesson

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folktales

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stories with people as main characters that sometimes include feats of strength

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myths

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stories told to explain the world around us

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legends

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grounded in reality, but aren’t necessarily true

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meter

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term we use to describe organizing poetry around how words are emphasized to produce a rhythm

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feet

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iams, trochees, dactyls, anapests

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iamb

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two syllavles, second more pronounced than the first

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trochee

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two syllables, first emphasized and the second isnt

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dactyl

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three syllables, first is emphasized and second two are not

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anapest

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three syllables, first two are not emphasized but the last is

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what is a couplet

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when one line immediately follows another lien and rhymes with it and shares the same meter

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how many stanzas are usually in a sonnet

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usuallly in one stanza

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what meter is used in haikus

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there is no rhyme scheme or meter in the haiku, just a specific number of syllables in each of hte three lines

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what does plot structure consist of

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exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and the resolution

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american romantic period

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1830-1870

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five characteristics used to identify american romantic literature

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imagination, individuality, nature as a source of spirituality, looking to the past for wisdom, seeing hte common man as a hero

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American Romantic Period

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1830-1870

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characteristics that identify the American Romantic literature

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imagiantion, individuality, nature as a source of spirituality, looking to the past for wisdom, and seeing the common man as a hero

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American Romantic period Authors

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washington Irving, William Cullen Bryant, Fireside poets, james fenimore cooper

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American Renaissance period

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1840-1860;end of the romantic period dark romantics and transcendentalists- used creepy symbosl and horrific themes to look at hte ineer-workings of hte mind

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Dark Romantic Writers

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Edgar allen poe, nathaniel hawthorne

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transcendentalism

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American literary and phylosophiscal movemet that lasted from the 1830s-1850s; eternal one, intuitive thought, imagination

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transcendentalist authorss

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ralph waldo emerson (essay: nature) henry david thoreau (the dial), walt whitman (poet- free verse, leaves of grass)

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realism

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movement that followed romanticism; typical authentic settings, believable characters, and very relatable plotlines

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realism authors

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mark twain (huckelberry fin), william dean howells, rebecca hardin davis, and henry james

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modernism

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1914-1945; post war world time of change, confusion, discovery, invention, and war

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modernism authors

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f scott fitzgerald (the great gatsby) William faulkner (the sound and the fury, as I lay dying) Ernest hemingway (a farewell to arms, the sun alwasy rises)

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modern poetry

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more pessimistic poetry and abandoned previous expectatiosn about meter and rhyme

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Harlem Renaissance

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1920-1930s introduced voices of African-American artists and writers inot the mainstream of the United STates.

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Harlem Renaissance authors

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web dubois (NAACP), alain locke, zora neale hurston, countee cullen, langston hughes, and claude mckay

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contemporary period

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continues the modernist trend to explore human consciousness. post WWII unable to deal with horrors of war

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simile

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comparison between two things using like or as

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metaphor

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direct statement that oen thing is another

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personification

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thing or an animal or an aspect of it is described as though it were a person

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symbolism

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someone or something stands for somethign else

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secular vs. religious politics

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Religious political writing blended politics adn religion and includes sermons as well as other forms of writing; secular political writing looked at politics as a separate entity from religion

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contemporary writer techniques

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character on a quest for idenity, expressionism, use of rhythm and tone, juxtaposition

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countercultural movement in the comtemporary period

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the underground

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What characteristics of the romantic movement were expressed through a focus on nature

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escapism and spirituality

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characteristics of modernism

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breaking from tradition, differing ways of processing the changing times (thoughtful and self reflective or an overwhelming sense of alienation)

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modernist period explored the ways that truth is not_____ but______

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modernist period explored the ways that the truth is not straightforward, rational, or clearly defined, but rather how it is completely influenced by human perception

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victorian literature

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literature written in England during the reign of queen Victoria 1837-1901

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major events that took place during the victorian era

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huge growth in population, improvements in technology, changing world views (theory of evolution- distancing from the church), poor conditions for the working class

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most well-known victorian writer

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charles dickens- oliver twist

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notable poets from the victorian era

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lord alfred tennyson, robert browning, elizabeth barrett browning, and Matthew Arnold

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characteristics of the victorian era

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vivid characters, good people who fall into bad circumstances that they don’t deserve, characters get the ending they deserve, strong character development

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characteristics of victorian poetry

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strong desire to connect with the past, skepticism about religion, stronger sense of humor

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the english renaissance

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late 14th century- shakespeare’s time

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romantic prose

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1800-1840

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british literature in chronological order

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Early and High middle ages, Old English, Middle English, The Enlighs Renaissance (shakespeare), romantic prose, literary modernism

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characteristics of romantic prose in British literature

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departure from reason, focus on nature, an element fo the supernatural, and a focus on the individual

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examples of british literature in romantic period

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Mark Shelley’s Frankenstein, Jane Austen, Teh Bronte Sisters

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literary modernism in british literature

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between ww1&ww2; it doesn’t always make sense

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4 ways to describe literary modernism in british literature

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nonlinearity of plot, irony and satire, voices and the idea of stream of consciousness, and allusions

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what is neoclassicism marked by

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the rise of the novel

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historical modern era

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began in the 16th centure; heroes going on an epic adventure

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