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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

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Don Juan

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Albert Camus

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The stranger

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Willa Cather

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Death comes for the archbishop

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Anton pavlovich chekov

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The cherry orchard

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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The rime of the ancient mariner

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Joseph Conrad

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Heart of darkness

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Daniel Defoe

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Robinson Crusoe

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John Donne

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Death be not proud poem

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Fyodor dostoevsky

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Crime and punishment

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John Dryden

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Alexander’s feast

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George Eliot

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Middlemarch

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T.S. Eliot

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The waste land

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Ralph Ellison

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The invisible man

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Euripides

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Greek dramatist know for tragedies

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Gustave Flaubert

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Madame bovary

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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Faust

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THOMAS hardy

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Tess of the d’urbervilles

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Herman Hesse

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Siddhartha

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Zora Neal Hurston

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Their eyes were watching god

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Henry James

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The turn of the screw

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John Keats

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Ode on a Grecian urn

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Jack Kerouac

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On the road

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Kipling

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The jungle book

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D.H. Lawrence

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Lady chatterly’s lover

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Lewis Sinclair

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Main Street

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Jack London

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Call of the wild

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Thomas Mann

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The magic mountain

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Christopher Marlowe

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Dr. Faustus

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John Milton

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Paradise lost

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Vladimir Nabokov

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Lolita

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Eugene o’neill

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A long day’s journey into night

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Ovid

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Metamorphoses

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Thomas Paine

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Common sense

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Petrarch

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Italian Renaissance poet

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Sylvia Plath

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The bell jar

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Plutarch

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The parallel lives

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Ezra pound

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American poet

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Marcel Proust

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Remembrance of things past

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Salman Rushdie

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The satanic verses

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Sir Walter Scott

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Ivanhoe

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George Bernard shaw

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Pygmalion

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Percy bysshe Shelley

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Prometheus unbound

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Upton Sinclair

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The jungle

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Aleksander Solzhenitsyn

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One day in the life of Ivan denisovich

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Edmund Spenser

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The faerie queen

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Jonathan swift

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Gulliver’s travels

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John Updike

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Rabbit, run

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Virgil

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The aeineid

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Kurt Vonnegut

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Slaughterhouse-five

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Edith Wharton

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Ethan frome

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Thornton wilder

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Our town

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William butler Yeats

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The winding stair

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