Literature Flashcards
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Antihero
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Main character who lacks heroism
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Anachronism
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Error in time sequence
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Bildungsroman
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Autobiographical novel
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Canto
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Division of a long poem
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Denouement
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Final part of a work
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Doggerel
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Bad poetry
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Elegy
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Poem expressing sadness
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Foot
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Unit of verse
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Kitsch
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Work of poor quality or reputation
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Lampoon
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Satirical portrayal
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Meter
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A poem’s rhythm
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Paradox
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Illogical statements used to create insight
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Pathos
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Something used to get sympathy
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Prose
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Non poetic language
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Rhetoric
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Persuasive writing
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Sonnet
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14 line poem
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Aeschylus
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Prometheus bound
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Horatio alger
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American novelist
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Aristophanes
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The clouds
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Honore de Balzac
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La comedie humaine
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Charles Baudelaire
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Les fleurs du mal
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Samuel Beckett
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Waiting for Godot
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Saul bellow
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Herzog
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William Blake
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Songs of innocence
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Lord George Byron
Don Juan
25
Albert Camus
The stranger
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Willa Cather
Death comes for the archbishop
27
Anton pavlovich chekov
The cherry orchard
28
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The rime of the ancient mariner
29
Joseph Conrad
Heart of darkness
30
Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe
31
John Donne
Death be not proud poem
32
Fyodor dostoevsky
Crime and punishment
33
John Dryden
Alexander's feast
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George Eliot
Middlemarch
35
T.S. Eliot
The waste land
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Ralph Ellison
The invisible man
37
Euripides
Greek dramatist know for tragedies
38
Gustave Flaubert
Madame bovary
39
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Faust
40
THOMAS hardy
Tess of the d'urbervilles
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Herman Hesse
Siddhartha
42
Zora Neal Hurston
Their eyes were watching god
43
Henry James
The turn of the screw
44
John Keats
Ode on a Grecian urn
45
Jack Kerouac
On the road
46
Kipling
The jungle book
47
D.H. Lawrence
Lady chatterly's lover
48
Lewis Sinclair
Main Street
49
Jack London
Call of the wild
50
Thomas Mann
The magic mountain
51
Christopher Marlowe
Dr. Faustus
52
John Milton
Paradise lost
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Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita
54
Eugene o'neill
A long day's journey into night
55
Ovid
Metamorphoses
56
Thomas Paine
Common sense
57
Petrarch
Italian Renaissance poet
58
Sylvia Plath
The bell jar
59
Plutarch
The parallel lives
60
Ezra pound
American poet
61
Marcel Proust
Remembrance of things past
62
Salman Rushdie
The satanic verses
63
Sir Walter Scott
Ivanhoe
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George Bernard shaw
Pygmalion
65
Percy bysshe Shelley
Prometheus unbound
66
Upton Sinclair
The jungle
67
Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
One day in the life of Ivan denisovich
68
Edmund Spenser
The faerie queen
69
Jonathan swift
Gulliver's travels
70
John Updike
Rabbit, run
71
Virgil
The aeineid
72
Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse-five
73
Edith Wharton
Ethan frome
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Thornton wilder
Our town
75
William butler Yeats
The winding stair
