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Test 1 - Literature Flashcards

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Appointment in Samarra

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W. Somerset Maugham

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Fox and the Grapes

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Aesop

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Camel and His Friends

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Bidpai

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Independence

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Chuang Tzu

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Godfather Death

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Grimm Brothers

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A&P

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John Updike

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A Rose for Emily

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William Faulkner

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The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

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Katherine Ann Porter

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To Build A Fire

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Jack London

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The Gift of the Magi

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O. Henry

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A Clean, Well-Lighted Place

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Ernest Hemingway

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The Open Boat

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Stephen Crane

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The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

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Ursula K. Le Guin

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14
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The Lottery

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Shirley Jackson

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15
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The Tell-Tale Heart

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Edgar Allan Poe

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A Sound of Thunder

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Ray Bradbury

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A Good Man is Hard to Find

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Flannery O’Conner

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18
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Sweat

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Zora Neale Hurston

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Proud, imperious Emily Grierson defied the town from the fortress of her mansion. Who could have guessed the secret that lay within?

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A Rose for Emily

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For sixty years Ellen Weatherall has fought back the memory of that terrible day, but now once more the priest waits in the house

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The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

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Seventy-five degrees below zero. Alone except for one mistrustful wolf-dog, a man finds himself battling relentless force.

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To Build A Fire

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in 2055, you can go on a Time Safari to hunt dinosaurs 60 million years ago. But put one foot wrong, and suddenly the future’s not what it used to be

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A Sound of Thunder

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A servant rises to gallop away from Death in this brief sardonic fable retold in memorable form by a popular storyteler

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The Appointment in Samarra

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Ever wonder where the phrase “sour grapes” comes from? Find out in this classic fable

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The Fox and the Grapes

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With friends like these, you can guess what the camel doesn’t need.

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The Camel and His Friends

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The Prince of Ch’u asks the philosopher Chuang Tzu to become his advisor and gets a surprising reply in this classic Chinese fable

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Independence

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Neither God nor the Devil came to the christening. In this stark folktale, a young man receives magical powers with a string attached

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Godfather Death

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In walk three girls in nothing but bathing suits, and Sammy finds himself no longer an aproned checkout clerk but an armored knight

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A&P

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All by himself each night, the old man lingers in the bright cafe. What does he need more than brandy?

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A Clean, Well-Lighted Place

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30
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A young husband and wife find ingenious ways to buy each other Christmas presents, in the classic story that defines the word “irony”.

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The Gift of the Magi

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In a lifeboat circled by sharks, tantalized by glimpses of land, a report scrutinizes Fate and learns about comradeship

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The Open Boat

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Omelas is the perfect city. All of its inhabitants are happy. But everyone’s prosperity depends on a hidden evil

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The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas

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The smoldering eye at last extinguished, a murderer finds that, despite all his attempts at a cover-up, his victim will be heard

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The Tell-Tale Heart

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Wanted: The Misfit, a cold-blooded killer. An ordinary family vacation leads to horror – and one moment of redeeming grace

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A Good Man is Hard to Find

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a brief, often humorous narrative told to illustrate a moral. The characters in these are traditionally animals whose personality traits symbolize human traits

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fable

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a brief, usually allegorical narrative that teaches a moral. In these, unlike fables, the moral themes are implicit and can often be interpreted in several ways.

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parable

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a short narrative without a complex plot. They are an ancient form of narrative found in folklore, and traditionally contain supernatural elements. This differs from a short story because of its tendency toward lesser-developed characters and linear plotting

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tale

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a humorous short narrative that provides a wildly exaggerated version of events. originally an oral form, this usually assumes that its audience knows the narrator is distorting the events. the form is often associated with the American frontier.

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Tall Tale

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a traditional form of short narrative folklore, originally transmitted orally, which features supernatural characters such as witches, giants, fairies, or animals with human personality traits. Often feature a hero or heroine who strives to achieve some desirable fate

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fairy tale, folktale

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a prose narrative too brief to be published in a separate volume – as novellas and novels frequently are. Usually a focused narrative what presents one or two characters involved in a single compelling action

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Short Story

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a narrative in which the main character, usually a child or adolescent, undergoes an important experience that prepares him or her for adulthood

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Initiation story

42
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the main or central character in a narrative

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protagonist

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the most significant character or force that opposes the protagonist in a narrative

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antagonist

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the opening portion of a narrative

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exposition

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the central struggle between two or more forces in a story

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conflict

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the introduction of a significant development in the central conflict between characters

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complication

47
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the point in a narrative when the crucial action, decision, or realization must take place

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crisis

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the moment of greatest intensity in a story, which almost inevitable occurs toward the end of the work

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climax

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in plotting, the logical end or outcome of a unified plot, shortly following the climax

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conclusion

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an indication of events to come in a narrative

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foreshadowing

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a scene relived in a character’s memory.

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flashback

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a moment of profound insight or revelation by which a character’s life is greatly altered

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epiphany

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a latin phrase. meaning ‘in the midst of things’; refers to the narrative device of beginning a story midway in the events it depicts

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in medias res

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a narrator who has the ability to move freely through the consciousness of any character

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omniscient or all-knowing narrator

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a narrator who is a participant in the action

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participant or first-person narrator

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a first-person narrator who is relatively detached from or plays only a minor role in the events described

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observer

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a narrator who does not appear int he story as a character but is usually capable of revealing the thoughts and motives of one or more characters

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nonparticipant or third-person narrator

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a character who fails to undersant all the implications of the story he or she tells

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innocent or naive narrator

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a narrator who – intentionally or unintentionally - relates events in a subjective or distorted matter

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unreliable narrator

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an extended presentation of a character’s thoughts in a narrative.

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interior monologue

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type of modern narration that uses various literacy devices, especially interior monologue, in an attempt to duplicate the subjective and associative nature of human consciousness

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stream of consciousness

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the techniques a writer uses to create, reveal, or develop the characters in a narrative

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characterization

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a term coined by English novelist E. M. Forster to describe a character with only one outstanding trait.

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Flat Character

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a term also coined by E. M. Forster to describe a complex character who is presented in depth in a narrative.

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round character

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a common or stereotypical character

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stock character

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the time and place of a story

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setting

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the location where a story takes place

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locale

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the dominant mood or feeling that pervades all or part of a literary work

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atmosphere

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the literary representation of a specific locale that consciously uses the particulars of geography, custom, history, folklore, or speech

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regionalism

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a type of fiction in which the characters are presented as products or victims of environment and heredity

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naturalism

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the attitude toward a subject conveyed in a literary work

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tone

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all the distinctive ways in which an author uses language to create a literary work

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style

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word choice or vocabulary

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diction

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a literary device in which a discrepancy of meaning is masked beneath the surface of the language

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irony

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where the reader understands the implication and meaning of a situation and may foresee the oncoming disaster or triumph while the character does not

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dramatic irony

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a type of situational irony that emphasizes the discrepancy between what characters deserve and what they get, between a character’s aspirations and the treatment he or she receives at the hands of fate

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cosmic irony or irony of fate

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a statement in which the speaker or writer says the opposite of what is really meant

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verbal irony

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a conspicuously bitter form of irony in which the ironic statement is designed to hurt or mock its target

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sarcasm

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a brief condensation of the main idea or plot of a literary work

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summary

80
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the main idea or larger meaning of a work of literature

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theme

81
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a person, place, or thing in a narrative that suggests meanings beyond its literal sense

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symbol

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an action whose significance goes well beyond its literal meaning

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symbolic act

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a narrative in which the literal events consistently point to a parallel sequence of symbolic equivalents

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allegory

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