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Literature & Understanding Text (#3) Flashcards

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A story in which people/things/actions represent an idea or generalization about life; usually a strong lesson or moral

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Allegory

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Repetition of initial consonant sounds in words

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Alliteration

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Reference to a familiar person/place/thing (ex: utopia)

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Allusion

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Comparison of different objects or ideas that are alike in some way

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Analogy

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Meter that is composed of short-short-long or unaccented-unaccented-accented (light or whimsical, ex: limerick)

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Anapestic Meter

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Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several clauses

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Anaphora

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Brief story to illustrate/make a point

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Anecdote

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Contrast or opposition between two things

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Antithesis

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Harold Bloom: poets, filled with anxiety & no new ideas, struggle against the earlier generations of poets

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Anxiety of Influence

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Wise saying, short & witty

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Aphorism

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Turn from general audience to speak directly to a group of persons or a personified abstraction who is present or absent

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Apostrophe

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Character, plot, image, theme, setting that appears in literature across cultures and is repeated over time

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Archetype

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Repetition of the same sound in words close to one another

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Assonance

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Unrhymed verse (often in iambic pentameter)

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Blank verse

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Break in the rhythm of language, esp. natural pause in a line of verse

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Caseura

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Method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits

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Characterization

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Expression used so much it loses its expressive power

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Cliche

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Metaphor or figure of speech, often elaborate, that compares two different things

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Conceit

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Repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels (ex: stroke of luck)

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Consonance

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Stanza made up of two rhyming lines

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Couplet

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Metrical foot of three syllables (stressed-unstressed-unstressed)

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Dactyl

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Literary criticism: writing and creator are unrelated

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Death of the Author

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Resolution or conclusion of a story

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Denouement

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Idea that works of literature carry on a dialogue with other works of literature and authors

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Dialogic

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Author’s choice of words based on clarity, conciseness, effectiveness, authenticity

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Diction

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Language that intentionally distorts or disguises meaning such as a euphemism or in an intentional effort to deceive

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Doublespeak

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Rhyming the ends of lines of verse

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End rhyme

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run-on line in poetry, one line ends and continues onto the next line to complete the meaning

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Enjambment

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Descriptive phrase or word frequently used to characterize a person or thing

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Epithet

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Philosophy that values human freedom and personal responsibility (Sartre, Kierkegaard, Camus, Nietzshe, Kafka, Simone de Beauvoir)

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Existentialism

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Literary device: jump back in time in the narrative’s chronology

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Flashback

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Character who contrasts another

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Foil

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One stressed syllable and a number of unstressed syllables (0 - 4)

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Foot (metrical)

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Unstressed, stressed

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Iambic

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Stressed, unstressed

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Trochaic

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Unstressed, unstressed, stressed

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Anapestic

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Stressed, unstressed, unstressed

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Dactylic

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Author gives hints about what is to come

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Foreshadowing

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Literary device: a story is enclosed in another story

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Frame story

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Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length

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Free verse/vers libre

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Category of literature defined by its style, form, content

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Genre

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Pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter

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Heroic couplet

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Art and science of text interpretation

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Hermeneutics

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Flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero

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Hubris

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Exaggeration for emphasis or rhetorical effect

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Hyperbole

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Expression specific to a certain language that means something different from the literal meaning

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Idiom

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Use of words to create pictures in the reader’s mind

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Imagery

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Intentional joining of opposites

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Incongruity

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Narrative technique that reveals a character’s internal thoughts and memories

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Interior Monologue

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Rhyme that occurs within the line of a verse

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Internal rhyme

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Relationships between texts

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Intertextuality

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Use of a word or phrase to mean the exact opposite of its literal or expected meaning (Dramatic, Verbal, Situation)

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Irony

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Type of pun or play on words when two words get mixed up in the speaker’s mind

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Malapropism

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Figure of speech in which a subtle or implicit comparison is made between two unlike things

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Metaphor

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Rhythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables

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Meter

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Figure of speech: one word is substituted for another with which it is closely associated

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Metonymy

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Literary theory: literature viewed as transmitting an author’s message

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Monologic

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Use of words to suggest sounds

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Onomatopoeia

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Phrase that consists of two contradictory terms

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Oxymoron

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Contradictory statement that makes sense

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Paradox

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Attribution of human feelings and responses to inanimate things or animals

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Pathetic fallacy

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Animals/ideas/things represented as having human traits

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Personification

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Narrator records the action from his or her point of view, unaware of any of the other characters’ thoughts or feelings

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Camera View/Objective View

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Play on words based on multiple meaning or on words that sound alike but have different meanings

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Pun

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Repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals, particularly at the end of each stanza

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Refrain

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Question that is posed but does not require an answer

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Rhetorical question

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Repetition of vowel sounds in accented syllables and all succeeding syllables

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Rhyme

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Regular or random occurrence of sounds in poetry

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Rhythm

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Rhyme that is not exact (Emily Dickinson)

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Slant rhyme

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Comparison of two unlike things (“like,” “as”)

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Simile

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Metrical foot of two syllables, both of which are stressed

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Spondee

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Style of writing that portrays the inner thoughts of a character, sometimes without regard for language/grammar standards

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Stream-of-consciousness

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How the author uses words, phrases, and sentences to form ideas

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Style

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Person, place, or thing used to represent something else

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Symbol

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Figure of speech in which a part represents the whole

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Synecdoche

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Juxtaposition of one sensory image with another that appeals to an unrelated sense

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Synesthesia

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mid-19th c. in New England; focused on protesting Puritan ethic & materialism; valued individualism, freedom, experimentation, spirituality (Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau, Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes)

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Transcendentalism

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Metrical foot: accented-unaccented

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Trochee

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Metric line of poetry, named after kind and number of feet composing it

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Verse

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Short poem, often by anonymous author, comprising short verses intended to be sung or recited

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Ballad

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Main section of a long poem

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Canto

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poem in which a character speaks to listeners whose response is not known

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Dramatic monologue

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Mournful lament for the dead

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Elegy

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Long narrative poem detailing a hero’s deeds

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Epic

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Japanese poem written in English with 17 syllables; 5-7-5; single thought

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Haiku

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Humorous; five anapestic lines; rhyme: aabba

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Limerick

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Short poem about personal feelings and emotions

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Lyric

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Poem that tells a story

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Narrative poem

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Eight-line poem, or the first eight lines of a Petrarchan/Italian sonnet

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Octave

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Lyric poem on a serious subject, written in dignified language

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Ode

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Poem that depicts life in an idyllic, idealized way

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Pastoral

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Poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet, all stanzas having the same six words and the line ends in six different sequences that follow a fixed pattern

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Sestina

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14-line poem, usually in iambic pentameter, with a varied rhyme scheme

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Sonnet

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Sonnet that opens with an octave (states a proposition) and ends with a sestet (states the solution)

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Petrarchan/Italian Sonnet

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Sonnet that includes three quatrains and a couplet

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Shakespearean/English Sonnet

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19-line poem consisting of five tercets with the rhyme scheme aba and a final quatrain of abaa

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Villanelle

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Genre that focuses on characters in a situation where they cannot find any inherent purpose in life, rep’d by ultimately meaningless actions and events

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Absurdist

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Voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject is performing the action

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Active voice

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Short story or folktale that contains a moral, sometimes expressed explicitly at the end

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Fable

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Narrative made up of fantastic characters and creatures, such as witches, goblins, and fairies

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Fairy tale

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Genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary elemetn

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Fantasy

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Type of comedy in which silly, often stereotyped characters are involved in far-fetched situations

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Farce

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Narrative form that has been retold within a culture for generations

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Folktale

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Main story is composed primarily for the purpose of organizing a set of shorter stories, each is a story within a story

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Frame tale

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Narrative fiction set in some earlier time and often contains historically authentic people, places, events

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Historical Fiction

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Fiction intended to frighten, unsettle, scare

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Horror

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Narrative about human actions that is perceived by both the teller and the listeners to have taken place within human history and possesses certain qualities that give the tail the appearance of truth or reality

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Legend

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Genre developed in Latin America that blends everyday life with the magical or mystical

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Magical Realism

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Suspenseful story that deals with a puzzling crime

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Mystery

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Narrative fiction that involves gods and heroes or has a theme that expresses a culture’s ideology

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Myth

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Short narrative, usually between 50 and 100 pages

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Novella

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Short story that teaches a lesson about how to lead a good life

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Parable

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Text or performance that imitates and mocks an author or work

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Parody

114
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Novel composed of idealized events far removed from everyday life

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Romance

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Literature that makes fun of social conventions or conditions, usually to evoke change

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Satire

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Very exaggerated, funny story that is obviously unbelievable

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Tall tale

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Literature ending in a catastrophic event for the protagonist

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Tragedy

118
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Novel west in the western US featuring cowboys, frontier

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Western

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Person’s account of his or her own life

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Autobiography

120
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Account of a person’s life written by another person

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Biography

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Phrase or statement written in memory of a person (tombstone)

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Epitaph

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Document organized in paragraph form; can be in the form of a letter, dialogue, or discussion

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Essay

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Historical account written from personal knowledge

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Memoir

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