Literature (Short stories, poems, and authors) Flashcards

(32 cards)

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Author of the famous storybook “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.”

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Lewis Carroll

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Author of the famous poem “The Road Not Taken.”

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Robert Frost

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a flower, a poem written by RALPH WALDO EMERSON.

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Rhodora

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wrote the classic children’s fiction novel “the jungle book”

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Rudyard Kipling

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wrote the poem, Africa. An African but was born in France.

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David Diop

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author of the story “footnote to youth”

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Jose Garcia Villa

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some examples of this are: while, on the other hand, however, nevertheless

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Adversative Transitions

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It is what Indarapatra gave Sulayman before he sets off to battle in the Magindanao epic Indarapatra and Sulayman

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Magic Ring

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Stephen King wrote this book series

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The Dark Tower

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What does the acronym CCTV mean?

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Closed-Circuit-Television

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It is a form of poetry in five-line, predominantly anapestic meter with a strict rhyme scheme (AABBA), often humorous and sometimes obscene

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Limerick

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It is a speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly, typically someone who has just died.

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Eulogy

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It is a form of figurative language which the whole is referred to by just a part. It can also be in the opposite way by referencing a part to the whole. Examples: Tina is learning her ABC’S in preschool.

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Synecdoche

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14
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the world’s first true novel

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The Tale of Genji

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what is the name for a record of a period in a person’s life?

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diary

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reflects the character’s name to their personality or occupation

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most successful play by american english poet t.s. eliot. most striking feature was the use of a chorus.

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Murder in the Cathedral

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wrote the epic poem, the divine comedy

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author of the spirit of laws

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theatre in london that is associated with shakespeare

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Globe Theatre

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last book in gulliver’s travels

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Voyage to Houyhnhnms

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english poetry group of mid-17th-century sided with king charles I against the parliament

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Caralier poets

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It is the best-known of Bram Stoker

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collection of indian animal fables

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founded the naturalist movement
Emile Zola
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the qu'ran has how many chapters?
114 chapters
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he is the father of the english novel
Henry Fielding
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the first gothic novel in the english language
The Castle of Otranto
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a shakespearean play that features the characters bianca, cassio, and iago
Othello
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is the literary technique where the audience know something that the characters don't
Dramatic Irony
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coined the term abstract poem
Edith Sitwell
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desribes the borogoues in "Jabberwocky"
Mimsy