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Focuses on the emotive qualities of the work as opposed to the aesthetic. It intended to move the reader.

  • Romanticism
  • Neoclassicism
  • Expressionism
  • Naturalism
  • Abstractionism
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  • Romanticism
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Style used between 1160-1798, during the Restoration and Augustan age, and the Age of Johnson and tried to imitate the style of the ancient Greeks. Very formal, very philosophical. Not meant to move the reader.

  • Romanticism
  • Neoclassicism
  • Expressionism
  • Naturalism
  • Abstractionism
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  • Neoclassicism
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A revolt against realism and naturalism to achieve psychological and spiritual reality rather than record external events in logical sequence. Franz Kafka and James Joyce followed this style.

  • Romanticism
  • Neoclassicism
  • Expressionism
  • Naturalism
  • Abstractionism
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  • Expressionism
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Is a philosophical rather than technical style and the study of the humans / characters through their relationship with other things. For example, how a human survives in the winter, or how humans interact with nature.

  • Romanticism
  • Neoclassicism
  • Expressionism
  • Naturalism
  • Abstractionism
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  • Naturalism
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Is a representation having no reference to concrete objects or specific example. The point is to mess up your mind a little, pulling it out of perspective.

  • Romanticism
  • Neoclassicism
  • Expressionism
  • Naturalism
  • Abstractionism
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  • Abstractionism
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Is an 18th Century emotional and intelligent concepts with scenes of distress and tenderness. The plot advances the emotions and actions of the characters as in a novel of sensibility.

  • Sentimental
  • Pastoral
  • Imagism
  • Post-Colonialism
  • Naturalism
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  • Sentimental
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Writing that illustrates an idyllic rural life.

  • Sentimental
  • Pastoral
  • Imagism
  • Post-Colonialism
  • Naturalism
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  • Pastoral
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Is part of the early 20th Century Modernist movement, and focused on the power of the image to communicate meaning.

  • Sentimental
  • Pastoral
  • Imagism
  • Post-Colonialism
  • Naturalism
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  • Imagism
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A discourse of colonization and its effects. Books written in this style have a specific motive: to explain the effects of colonization, both before colonization happens, and after. It can be very political, social, and even religious.

  • Sentimental
  • Pastoral
  • Imagism
  • Post-Colonialism
  • Naturalism
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  • Post-Colonialism
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Consists of prose and narrative verse popular among Medieval aristocracy. The stories are filled with marvels, heroes, slaying of dragons, monsters, etc.

  • Chivalric romance
  • Mock epics
  • Pathetic fallacy
  • Eclogue
  • Epiphany
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  • Chivalric romance
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Satires and parodies that mock classical hero stories.

  • Chivalric romance
  • Mock epics
  • Pathetic fallacy
  • Eclogue
  • Epiphany
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  • Mock epics
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Is attributing human emotion to inanimate things or animals (like personification), BUT it fails: it’s a false connection made on purpose.

  • Chivalric romance
  • Mock epics
  • Pathetic fallacy
  • Eclogue
  • Epiphany
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  • Pathetic fallacy
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Is a poem written in classical style on a pastoral subject.

  • Chivalric romance
  • Mock epics
  • Pathetic fallacy
  • Eclogue
  • Epiphany
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  • Eclogue
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Is a moment in the story where the character achieves a realization and then everything is seen through that perspective thereafter.

  • Chivalric romance
  • Mock epics
  • Pathetic fallacy
  • Eclogue
  • Epiphany
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  • Epiphany
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Is an exaggerated imitation of a subject to create a comedy.

  • Parody
  • Pathos
  • Propaganda
  • Dramatic irony
  • Harangue
  • Roman a clef
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  • Parody
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Is a character quality that provokes pity or sadness.

  • Parody
  • Pathos
  • Propaganda
  • Dramatic irony
  • Harangue
  • Roman a clef
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  • Pathos
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Is information used to promote political causes or perspectives.

  • Parody
  • Pathos
  • Propaganda
  • Dramatic irony
  • Harangue
  • Roman a clef
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  • Propaganda
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Is the full significance of a character’s words or actions understood by the audience but not by the character.

  • Parody
  • Pathos
  • Propaganda
  • Dramatic irony
  • Harangue
  • Roman a clef
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  • Dramatic irony
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Is a lengthy aggressive speech by a character.

  • Parody
  • Pathos
  • Propaganda
  • Dramatic irony
  • Harangue
  • Roman a clef
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  • Harangue
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A novel where real people and events appear with invented names.

  • Parody
  • Pathos
  • Propaganda
  • Dramatic irony
  • Harangue
  • Roman a clef
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  • Roman a clef
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A realistic story focusing on the customs and conversations of certain class of people such as in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

  • Novel of manners
  • Epistolary novel
  • Chronicles
  • Social novel
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  • Novel of manners
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Written as a series of documents such as letters such as in Dracula by Bram Stoker and Pamela by Samuel Richardson.

  • Novel of manners
  • Epistolary novel
  • Chronicles
  • Social novel
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  • Epistolary novel
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A historic account of events arranged by order without analysis such as Chronicles of Narnia.

  • Novel of manners
  • Epistolary novel
  • Chronicles
  • Social novel
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  • Chronicles
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A prevailing social problem (race issues, religious issues, revolution, etc.) dramatized through its effect on characters.

  • Novel of manners
  • Epistolary novel
  • Chronicles
  • Social novel
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  • Social novel
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The act of making verses.

  • Vignettes
  • Colloquialism
  • Prosody
  • Versification
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  • Versification
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Brief evocative episodes wherein we see not the whole story of a character, but instead, like a little window, just portions of how he or she acts; never a complete picture.

  • Vignettes
  • Colloquialism
  • Prosody
  • Versification
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  • Vignettes
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Is the use of informal words, phrases, or even slang in a piece of writing. These expressions tend to sneak in as writers, being part of a society, are influenced by the way people speak in that society.

“Bamboozle” – to deceive.
“Wanna” – want to.
“Y’all” – you all.

  • Vignettes
  • Colloquialism
  • Prosody
  • Versification
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  • Colloquialism
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The study and actual use of meters and forms of versification (the act of making verses).

  • Vignettes
  • Colloquialism
  • Prosody
  • Versification
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  • Prosody

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