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Literature Flashcards

1
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Traditionally derived and orally transmitted literature

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Folklore

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Reflect the people’s beliefs handed down from generation to generation by word of mouth.

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Folktales

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Conclusion or final part of non-dramatic literary work.

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Epilogue

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Distinctive type of literary composition such as epic, tragedy, comedy & novel.

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Genre

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means “where are you going”.

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“Quo Vadis”

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Oldest form of egyptian writing

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hieroglyphics

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7
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narrative whose meaning is beneath the surface

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Allegory

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8
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a meditated poem of grief

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Elegy

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9
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verse w/14 iambic pentameter lines

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Sonnet

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long poem w/c depicts the adventure of a great hero who reveals his country’s aspirations; narrates heroic deeds and supernatural happenings w/local actor in w/c people sing/chant

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Epic

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11
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speech made by a person who reveals his thoughts

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Soliloquy

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12
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He wrote “How my brother Leon brought home a wife”

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Manuel Arguilla

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13
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He wrote “The Legend of a Sleepy Hollow”

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Washington Irving

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hypochondriac living in morbid fear

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Fall of the house of usher

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poet & soldier noted for his Peculiar nose

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Cyrano de Bergerac

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16
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great epic poem whose plot centers around the anger & wrath of Achilles against agamemnon

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“The Illiad of Homer”

17
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“If eyes are made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being”

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“The Bells”

18
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literary term w/c means harsh & discordant sounds introduced for poetic effect

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Cacophony

19
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know for his excellence of characterization, swiftness of narrative & clarity of style

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George Bernard Shaw

20
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greatest American writer of horror and detective stories

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Edgar Allan Poe

21
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best known for his collection of poems called Gitanjali/song offerings

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Rabindranath Tagore

22
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ranked as one of the best modern American poets.

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Robert Frost

23
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Morning Star of English Literature

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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“Samuel Clemens”

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Mark Twain

25
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“Uncle Tom’s Cabin”

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Harriet Stowe

26
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Origin of species

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Charles Darwin

27
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invented the ball point pen

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Lazlo Biro

28
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epic kind of story

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Harry Potter

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