WORLD LIT Flashcards
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Literature is performance in words
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Robert Frost
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Literature interprets the meaning of nature and life
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Henry Van Dyke
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Literature is life which presents human experience
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Arsenia Tan of UST
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Written work valued for superior/lasting artistic merit
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Literature
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Printed matter of any kind that provides information and advice
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literature
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Importance of literature
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- Talk and know about people
- Develop personality
- Represents language, people, culture, and tradition
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Literature appeals to everyone regardless of culture, race, gender, and time
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Universality
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Literature example that possesses Universality
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Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland
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Literature’s aesthetic appeal and sense of beauty
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Artistry
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Literature example that has Artistry
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The Great Gatsby
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Literature that stimulates critical thinking that enriches mental processes of abstract and reasoning— realizing the fundamental truths of life and its nature.
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Intellectual Value
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Example of literature with a Standard of Intellectual Value
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To Kill A Mockingbird
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Literature unravels and conjures man’s emotional power to define symbolism, nuances, implied meanings, images and messages, and evokes vision beyond plane ordinary life.
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Suggestiveness
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Example of literature that gives standard of Suggestiveness
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The Road Not Take (Robert Frost)
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Literature elevates the spirit and the soul that motivate and inspire through suggested morals or lessons if the literary
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Spiritual Value
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Example of literature that shows Spiritual Value
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Paradise Lost (John Milton)
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Literature endures across time and remains invariable throughout time
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Permanence
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Literature example that possess Permanence
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Confucian Golden Rule
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Literature presents peculiar ways on how men see life as evidence of his ideas, forms, structures, and expressions which marked their memorable substances
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Style
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Literature example that possess Style
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Annabel Lee (Edgar Allan Poe)
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What did George R.R. Martin stated?
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A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.
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A traditional religious narrative that explains the origin of the universe, life, and humanity.
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Creation Myth
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The exploration of the origin of cosmos with an intricate tapestry of creation that discusses the existence, purpose, and cosmic order.
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Cosmology
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A geographical placement where the civilization of ancient Egypt unfolded and shaped their livelihoods and symbolic roles of their religious and cultural narratives
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Life-giving water— Nile river
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The primordial water that represents chaos
Nun
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Symbolizes the first solid ground from Nun and is associated with the creation of life
Mound
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Alternative name for Heliopolis, an Ancient Egyptian City
Iunu
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The Sun God
Ra
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Creation Myth that arose in Heliopolis
Creation of Atum
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Primeval deity and the personification of the setting sun that emerged from the primordial mound. It has the ability to self-create and is depicted as androgynous.
Atum
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God of Air
Shu
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God of Moisture
Tefnut
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God of Sky
Nut
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God of Earth
Geb
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Children of Nut and Geb
Osiris, Isis, Set, and Nephthys
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God of Afterlife and Resurrection
Osiris
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Symbolizes motherhood and us the Wisest of all god created
Isis
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The key figure in Egyptian mythology, son of Osiris and Isis
Horus
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Ra at Dawn
Khephera
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Ra at noon
Re
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Ra at Evening
Atum
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Goddess of destruction
Sekhmeht
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Goddess of love and desire, changed name of Sekhmeht
Hathor
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Name of the fist cobra that bites Ra
Uraeus
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"Man dies, his body is dust, his family brought low to Earth; But writing shall make him remembered, alive in anyone who read"
Papyrus Inscription
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Cradle of Civilization
Ancient Middle East
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It is very important in farming, trade, travel, and social interaction
River
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How many years did the Egyptians stay around the Nile River?
3,000 years
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The first city states arose located between degrees and euprates
Mesopotamia
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These people are nomadic, always migrates and has a long time being slaved and settled in Canaan
Hebrews
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Literature and cultures were preserved as
A rule
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One of the world's earliest writing form
Cuneiform
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Old kingdom
2600 to 2180 BC (Pharaohs and Tombs)
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Middle kingdom
2030 to 2180 BC (rise of nobles)
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New Kingdom
1570 to 1075 BC
Egyptian bonded together and Pharaoh was made Egypt the strongest power in the world can
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Hebrews and jews from Abraham
The Early Hebrews 2000 to 1200 BC
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Jews migrate to Egypt but were enslaved for many years until Moses led them back
The Exodus 1200 to 1020 BC
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Jews were united under King Saul
The kingdom of Israel 1020 to 922 BC
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Israel was divided into two: Israel and Judah
The divided Kingdom 922 - 539 BC
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Early literature forms
Myths, heroic literature, sacred verse, wisdom literature, folktales
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Written in verse, rely heavily and image recover precise word choice and metaphor they have measures and utilize rhythm.
Poem
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Greek word for making, root word of poem
Poiesis
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"The spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings recollected in tranquility"
Wordsworth
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"Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another"
Robert Frost
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Kinds of poetry
Narrative, lyric, haiku
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A poetry that tells a story in verse
Narrative poetry
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A literature that tells the life and works of a heroic or mythological person or group of person. Oldest form of literature.
Epic
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A song like poem that tells a story that often deals with adventure or romance employing repetition of refrain or incremental repetition
Ballad
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Example of Balad
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
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A literature that relates to real or imaginary events in simple, straightforward language about ordinary people concerned with ordinary lives
Metrical tale
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Example of Metrical Tale
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
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A long narrative poem that presents imaginative incidents rather than realistic experience
Metrical romance
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Example of Metrical Romance
Sir Gawain and The Green Knight (chivalric romance)
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A literature that expresses emotions, feelings, and observations of the writer
Lyric poetry
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It is a set of music that is intended to be sung
Song
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It is a 14-line lyric poem focused on a single theme
Sonnet
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A literature that is a solemn and formal lyric poem about death. It may mourn particular person or reflect on a serious tragic theme
Elegy
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A literature that is a long, formal, and serious lyrical poem that honors people, commemorate events, respond to natural scene or considers human problems
Ode
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This literature includes all lyric poems that do not fall under the four other types
Simple lyric
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A literature that originated in Japan, 700-year-old verse form with 3 lines (5-7-5) that mostly deals with nature
Haiku
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Elements of poetry
Sound and Figures of speech
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It is the rhyme, redeem, and repetition to create special sound
Sound
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It is the reoccurrence of similar sounds usually at the end of lines
Rhyme
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Two words that have exactly the same vowel and consonant sound at the ends
Perfect rhyme
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Some sounds are the same but do not form a perfect rhyme
Imperfect rhyme
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It is the reoccurrence of pattern of sound
Rhythm
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The measure which we count to the beat of the rhythm
Meter
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The repeated use of sound, word, phrase, sentence, rhythmical pattern or grammatical pattern
Repetition
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It is the repetition of initial consonant sound
Alliteration
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It is the repetition of internal consonant sound
Consonance
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It is the repetition of the vowel sound
Assonance
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It refers to the words that sound like what they mean
Onomatopoeia
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It is an idiomatic expression or the utterance not in its literal meaning but it's implication
Figures of speech
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It is a Latin word that means similar. It states comparison between two things which are really very different but share common element with the use of as or like
Simile
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This figure of speech implies comparison between two and like things without the word as, as if, and like
Metaphor
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A Greek verb meaning "to carry over"
Methaphere
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A figure of speech that gives human qualities or attributes to an object, an animal, or an idea
Personification
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A figures of speech that consists of substitution of the literal noun for another that is somehow associated with it
Metonymy
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I figures of speech that is deliberate over statement or exaggeration
Hyperbole
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I figure of speech that states an idea that is the opposite of what is meant
Irony
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A figure of speech that combines contraries to portray a particular image or to produce a striking effect
Oxymoron
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A figure of speech that is a direct address to an animate object, a dead person, or an idea
Apostrophe
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A literature that consists of writing that does not adhere to any particular formal structure. It can be spoken or written language without any metrical structure
Prose
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A literature that tells about imaginary characters or events. It is a product of imagination of the writer
Fiction
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A Latin word means "to form, create"
Fingere
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It is a brief prose narrative that is composed of a single plot written over 1,000 less than 10,000 words with few characters and can be read in one sitting
Short story
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It is a long story written in prose that has more characters and with several subplots
Novel
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7,500 to 19,000 words
Novelette
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10,000 to 40,000 words
Novella
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It is a narrative prose intended to be played on stage. Also known as play and is treated in script and re-enacted by actors
Drama
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It is a brief story with animal, plan, or think characters that teaches a lesson or moral
Fable
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A legendary Greek fabulist
Aesop
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It is an allegorical short narrative that illustrates moral or spiritual lessons, typically comes from the Bible add the characters are human
Parable
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It is a story that reflects peoples identity or cultural values. It is more of historical and less emphasis on supernatural
Legend
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A little richer with religious significance that explains action of gods or heroes that causes natural phenomena or both
Myth
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It is a story featuring folklore characters such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, giants, talking animals, and others. It often involves royalty and usually have a happy ending in modern versions
Fairy tales
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It is an element of fiction that is defined as the arrangement of events and actions in a story to convey theme
Plot
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An element of fiction that is the principal figure around whom the story revolves and is called protagonist
Character
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Emotion that we feel when we identify ourselves with the protag
Empathy
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An element of fiction that describes the when and where the story happen
Setting
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The element of fiction where the story unfolds from a vantage point through the ice of an authoritative narrator
Point of view
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The element of fiction that states what the literature is all about. It determines the choice of author about the other elements.
Theme
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The element of fiction that pertains to the choice of word
Diction
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The element of friction that pertains to the verbal expression of sense experience makes possible for the communication of one sees, here, feels, smells, and tastes
Image
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The element of section that pertains to the representation of something
Symbol
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A literature that presents and explains ideas or tells about real people, places, objects, or events
Non-fiction
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It is a literature that is written by the author about himself
Autobiography
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Greek words meaning "self", "life", and "write"
auton—, bios—, graphein—
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It is a literature that is a written account of a person's life authored by another person
Biography
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It is a literature that treats a topic from an author's personal point of view. It is the most common form of literature with two elements namely main idea and paragraph.
Essay
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It is a literature for writing discrete and trees arranged by date reporting on what has happened over the course of the day or other periods
Diary or Journal
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A French term meaning "attempt"
essai
