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♡literature midterm♡ Flashcards

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Who’s the master of local color?

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Mark Twain

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Who’s the master of fables?

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Aesop

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Who celebrates Great Plains/Pioneer life and is the Author of “My Antonia”?

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Willa Cather

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Who celebrated Chicano Heritage?

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Ricardo Sanchez

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Who produced Greek Myths?

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Ovid

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Who is the Author of “Treasure Island”?

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Robert Louis Stevenson

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Who’s the Author of Negro National Anthem?

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James Weldon Johnson

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Who’s the master of Realism?

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Charles Dickens

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Who’s the master of Allegory and Author of “Pilgrims Progress”?

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John Bunyan

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Who wrote short stories as Propaganda to defend farmers?

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Hamlin Garland

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Who’s the master of Dark Romanticism?

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Who’s the master of Suspense?

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Edgar Allen Poe

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Who’s the Author of “The Gift of the Magi”?

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O’Henry

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Who’s the Author of the first Modern Novel, “Don Quixote”?

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Cervantes

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♡!Break Time!♡

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♡!Break Time!♡

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Writing that seeks to aid the reader in seeing or feeling whatever the author is trying to convey.

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Description

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A theme that must be discerned from the details and is NOT stated outright.

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Implicit Theme

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A type of extended metaphor that forms a story with two levels of meaning.

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Allegory

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A seeming contradiction.

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Paradox

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The reason an author composed his/her work.

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Authorial Intent

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A conversation between two characters.

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Dialogue

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A character used to emphasize another character’s opposing traits.

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Foil

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A type of irony where the expected outcome doesn’t happen.

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Situational Irony

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A theme stated outright.

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Explicit Theme

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The opposition of two or more characters or forces.

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Conflict

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The suspenseful ending of a section of a story.

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Cliffhanger

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Hinting at events that will happen later in the story.

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Foreshadowing

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A type of irony where the reader knows information the characters do not know.

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Dramatic Irony

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Stories that are passed down from generation to generation through stories told.

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Oral Tradition

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A type of irony where the words don’t match their meaning, sarcasam.

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Verbal Irony

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A dialogue written to reflect the local color of a character’s speech.

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Dialect

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♡!Break Time!♡

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♡!Break Time!

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A character who is complex.

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Round

34
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A protagonist who behaves virtuously.

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Hero

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The time, place, and way of life in which the action of the story occurs.

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Setting

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A person, place, thing or idea that means something in addition to itself.

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Symbol

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Literature plainly written to persuade the reader to support the author’s position on a significant issue of his/her time.

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Propaganda

38
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Giving human characteristics to something that is not human.

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Personification

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A character with whom the reader identifies or views favorably.

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Normative

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An idea about life that is found throughout world literature because it can be understood by people of all times/places.

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Universal Theme

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An argument that motivates the listener to change his actions.

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Persuasion

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A character with little individuality, the reader knows little about his/her mindset.

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Flat

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Re-creates the dress, dialect, geography, social practices, and general worldview of a specific region.

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Local Color

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The main character.

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Protagonist

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The protagonist in a tragedy.

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Tragic Hero

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A character who changes or develops through the story.

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Dynamic

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Reader’s anxiety resulting from author’s withholding of plot details.

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Suspense

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A simple statement that sums up a truth about life.

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Moral

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♡!Break Time!♡

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♡!Break Time!♡

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A comic work using buffoonery, horseplay, and ludicrously improbable situations.

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Farce

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A short quotation or prologue at the beginning of a text.

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Epigraph

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A character with whom the reader cannot identify or has strong feelings of dislike for.

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Unsympathetic

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When a character receives a reward or punishment for his/her virtue or vice within story.

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Poetic Justice

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Literature whose protagonist’s flaws cause him suffering that eventually results in a catastrophe.

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Tragedy

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Character’s pride.

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Hubris

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A recurring or emerging idea in a work of literature.

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Theme

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One who struggles against the protagonist.

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Antagonist

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The mood or emotion a reader is supposed to share with the characters.

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Atmosphere

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An evil antagonist.

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Villain

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A use of language to convey meaning other than what is stated or a contradiction in what is expected to happen and actually happens.

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Irony

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A conflict that occurs between a character and his own thoughts, emotions, etc.

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Internal Conflict

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A brief story that seeks to expand on a moral, usually involves animal characters.

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Fable

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An imitation of another author’s style with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.

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Parody

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