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Romanticism/Transcendentalism Test Flashcards

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Romanticism

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A movement that emphasizes emotion and feelings over personal and intellectual growth.
FIVE I’s:
- Intuition
- Individuality
- Idealism
- Inspiration
- Imagination

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Transcendentalism

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Allegory

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Parable

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Omniscent Narrator

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Symbol

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Imagery

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Situational Irony

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Stock Character

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Static/Flat Character

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Dynamic/Round Character

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Foust Legend

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Theme

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Mood

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Essay

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A piece of writing to convince or inform the reader.
- “Self Reliance” by Emerson
- it explains the importance of thinking for yourself

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Aphorism

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A brief saying or phrase that expresses an opinion or advice without flowery language.

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Catalog

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A collection of people, objects, or ideas in list form.

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Parallelism

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When an author constructs parts of a sentence to be grammatically similar, often repeating parts of a phrase, words, or idea.

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Free Verse

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Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.

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Blank Verse

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Unrhyming verse in iambic pentameter.

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Situational Irony

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A literary technique in which an expected outcome does not happen or the opposite happens instead.

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Tone

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The attitude a writer expresses toward the subject of a text.

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Characterization

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A name for the method a writer used to express a characters values, feelings, goals, etc.

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Iambic Pentameter

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a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable
ex: Two households, both alike in dignity.

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Inductive Reasoning

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Using a specific observation to form a general conclusion.

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Deductive Reasoning

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When you take a general premise to form a specific conclusion.

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