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Juxtaposition

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Contrasting two different things

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Enumeration

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Whitman’s lists

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Anaphora

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

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Apostrophe

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Directly address something or someone who is not there

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Onomatopoeia

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Words that imitate the natural sounds they name

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Diction

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Word choice

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Free verse

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Not following a certain form or meter

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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds

-old souls

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Consonance

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Repetition of consonant sounds

-Fair Face deForms

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Influence of transcendentalism on Whitman

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Influenced by nature, believes in an over soul

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Hyperbole

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Exaggeration for emphasis or humor

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Litotes

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Negative of opposite

-horrible day=not the best day

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Meiosis

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Type of Understatement

-downpour=a bit damp

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Incongruity

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Comparison of drastically different things

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Epigram

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Short witty saying

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Epigraph

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Quote from another source at the beginning

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Invective

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Satiric direct attack, stated without irony or sarcasm

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Paradox

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A self-contradictory statement or one opposed to common sense

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Verbal irony

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Discrepancy between what is said and what is done

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Situational irony

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Poetic justice

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Dramatic irony

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Audience knows something that the character does not

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Satire

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Work using irony, wit, parody, caricature, hyperbole, understatement, and sarcasm to point out human follies or flawed social institutions and conventions for ridicule or reform.

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Juvenalian satire

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Harsh bitter satire. Strongly criticizes. May be offensive.

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Horatian satire

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Gentle sympathetic satire. Mildly mocks. Laugh at yourself and the characters.

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Bronfenbrennet’s Ecological Systems Theory

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mircosystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem

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2 Themes in Puddnhead Wilson and which I agree with

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-Nature vs nurture
Strong nature/will can overcome nurture, but weaker ones are more easily influenced by nurture/environment
-Race as a social construct
To an extent, yes. There are different races, but racial roles and stereotypical behaviors are a social construct.

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Allusion of the boys names in Puddnhead Wilson

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Tom-archbishop excommunicated those who didn’t agree so they couldn’t challenge him. Was assassinated.
Chambers-French courts often had opportunity to move up and hold higher positions

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Circumference

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The end is the beginning of something else

-death begins eternity

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Negative capability

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Ability of the author to disappear

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Common meter

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Hymn meter. Iambic 4,3,4,3

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True rhyme

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Words that really rhyme–duh

-fat, cat

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Slant rhyme

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Cheater’s rhyme

  • assonant vowel “back” “cat”
  • eye rhyme “though” “cough”
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Oxymoron

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Combination of contradictory words and meanings

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Romanticism in the awakening

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Nature, individual

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Realism in the Awakening

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Discussion of class/cultural differences
Exposure of social ills
Common life–ordinary people

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Naturalism in the Awakening

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Objective narrator

Victimization at the hands of larger force (societal or physical)

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Local color in the Awakening

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Local characters
Setting/ descriptions
Dialects
Predominance of short stories

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3 thematic issues in the awakening

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Alienation from culture
Individual freedom vs societal expectations
Natural urges vs free will

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Development and meaning of art

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Development: dabbled, then serious pursuit
Meaning: developing emotion and expression, true art is outside the mainstream

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Development and meaning of birds

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Development: caged bird, pigeon house, must have strong wings, bird with broken wing
Meaning: entrapment. speaking a language no one else understands except the mockingbird (Reisz). bird at end could be Edna failing or convention falling

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Development and meaning of clothing

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Development: clothes romanticized, making clothes, then washing clothes, takes off clothes
Meaning: society and conventions. Adele looks great, Reisz doesn’t care and out of fashion. Edna casts off the clothing in the end

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Development and meaning of ocean

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Development: begins the awakening, ends life
Meaning: empowerment, freedom, escape. lover. rebirth. strength, glory, and lonely horror of independence.

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Development and meaning of sleep

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Uses: sleep in hammock to defy husband, wake up to see Robert whom she is growing to love
Meaning: wakefulness=knowledge, sleep=ignorance.

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How do you interpret the ending of the awakening?

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I think she failed (bird with broken wing) and she turned back to what reminded her of the life she wanted and gave in to the allurement of the ocean. lonely horror of independence.

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Burke’s Dramatic Pentad

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Act
Agency 
Agent
Setting
Purpose
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Series of balances pairs

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Balanced, flows nicely

  • gold and silver, land and glory
  • flags of defiance in a landscape of despair
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Repetition of a key term

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The importance of that word/term

  • the inner world, the world of the mind
  • if he wanted to fly he could fly
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Complete inversion of normal pattern

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Emphasizes a different part of the sentence

  • intuition and emotion, he never appreciated
  • down the street stumbled the figure
  • never before have we had so little time to do so much
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Paired constructions

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Balanced and logical
Not only, but also
If not, at least
Just as, so too
The more, the more
etc.
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Absolute construction

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Noun + participle that modifies sentence, placed anywhere. Emphasizes whatever is first.

  • having eaten dessert, he ate his pasta
  • his body turning against him, Chris starved to death in the wild
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Emphatic appositive

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Putting it at the end builds to climax and emphasizes the word with finality

  • Anyone should avoid two things: cactus needles and rattlesnakes
  • they echo the ideas of one man–Plato
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Single modifier out of place

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Highlights the importance

  • frantically, he rushed out
  • writers, ghettoized, fell into their own subculture

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