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Midterm Flashcards

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Under the Lion’s Paw

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Hamlin Garland

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The Atlanta Exposition Address

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Booker T. Washington

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The Souls of Black Folk

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W.E.B. Du Bois

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To Build a Fire

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Jack London

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Editha

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William Dean Howells

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A White Heron

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Sarah Orne Jewett

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The Yellow Wallpaper

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Adventures of Huck Finn

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Mark Twain

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The Open Boat

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Stephen Crane

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Daisy Miller

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Henry James

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Serepta Mason
Trainor the Druggist
Abel Melvany

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Edgar Lee Maters

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Miniver Cheevy

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Edwin Arlington Robinson

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The Road Not Taken

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Robert Frost

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Mending Wall

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Robert Frost

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After Apple Picking

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Robert Frost

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Birches

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Robert Frost

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Nothing Gold Can Stay

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Robert Frost

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Desert Places

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Robert Frost

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From Winesburg, Ohio

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Sherwood Anderson

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Sonnet

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Poem of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter

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Dynamic Character

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Character who undergoes a significant change in a story

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Flat character

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One whose nature is summed up in one or two traits

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Round character

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One with a complex, many-sided personality

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Static character

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One who is the same at the end of the story as at the beginning

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Stock Character

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One who is stereotyped, taken from prototypes in previous lit.

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Alliteration

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Repetition at close intervals of the initial consonant sounds

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Allusion

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Reference to previous work of literature

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Assonance

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Repetition of similar vowel sounds

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Iambic pentameter

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Poetic meter, five stressed syllables per line

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Dramatic monologue

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A lyric poem ft. a one-sided conversation in a dramatic setting

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Conceit

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Elaborate, extensively developed metaphor which may be intellectually complex, far-fetched, or strained in its execution

American Literature (1 decks)

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