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Mrs. White final 2012 study materials. P&P, Frankenstein, Dracula, J&H, Dorian Gray, BNW+ victorian, romantic, and modern-postmodern poetry
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English
10th Grade
05/17/2012

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Who wrote Pride and Prejudice?
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Jane Austen
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Who wrote Frankenstein?
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Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft
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Who wrote Dracula?
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Bram Stoker
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Who wrote Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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Who wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray?
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Oscar Wilde
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Who wrote Brave New World?
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Aldous Huxley
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Who wrote "To a Mouse" ?
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Robert Burns
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Who wrote "To a Louse" ?
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Robert Burns
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Who wrote "The Lamb" ?
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William Blake
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who wrote "The Tyger" ?
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William Blake
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Who wrote "The Chimney Sweeper" ?
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William Blake
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Who wrote "Infant Sorrow" ?
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William Blake
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Who wrote "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" ?
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William Wordsworth
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Who wrote "The World Is Too Much With Us" ?
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William Wordsworth
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Who wrote "London 1802" ?
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William Wordsworth
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Who wrote "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" ?
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Who wrote "Kubla Khan" ?
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Who wrote "She Walks in Beauty" ?
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George Gordon, Lord Byron
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Who wrote "Apostrophe to the Ocean"
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George Gordon, Lord Byron
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Who wrote "Ozymandias" ?
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Who wrote "Ode to the West Wind" ?
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Who wrote "To a Skylark" ?
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Who wrote "Ode on a Grecian Urn" ?
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John Keats
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Who wrote "In Memoriam, A.H.H." ?
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Who wrote "The Lady of Shalott" ?
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Who wrote "My Last Duchess" ?
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Robert Browning
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Who wrote "Sonnet 43" ?
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Emily Barret Browning
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Who wrote "Remembrance" ?
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Emily Bronte
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Who wrote "Ah, Are You Digging On My Grave?" ?
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Thomas Hardy
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Who wrote "God's Grandeur" ?
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Gerarld Manley Hopkins
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Who wrote "Spring and Fall: To a Young Child" ?
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Gerald Manley Hopkins
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Who wrote "To an Athlete Dying Young" ?
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A.E. Houseman
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Who wrote "When I Was One-and-Twenty" ?
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A.E. Houseman
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Who wrote "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" ?
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William Butler Yeats
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Who wrote "The Second Coming" ?
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William Butler Yeats
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Who wrote "Sailing to Byzantium" ?
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William Butler Yeats
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Who wrote "Journey of the Magi" ?
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T.S. Elliot
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Who wrote "The Hollow Men" ?
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T.S. Elliot
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Who wrote "Mese'e de Beaux Arts" ?
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W.H. Auden
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Who wrote "Follower" ?
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Seamus Heaney
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Who wrote "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night." ?
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Dylan Thomas
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Who wrote "Fern Hill" ?
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Dylan Thomas
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Who wrote "The Horses" ?
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Ted Hughes
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Who wrote "An Arundel Tomb" ?
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Philip Larkin
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Alliteration
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the practice of beginning several consecutive or "neighboring words" with the same sound
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Allusion
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a reference to a mythological, literary, or historical person, place, or thing.
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Antithesis
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a direct juxtaposition of structurally parallel words, phrases, or clauses for the purpose of contrast.
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Apostrophe
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a form of personification in which the absent or dead are spoken of as if present and the inanimate, as if animate.
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Assonance
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the repetition of accented vowel sounds in a series of words.
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Consonance
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the repetition of a consonant sound within a series of words to produce a harmonious effect.
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Details
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the facts revealed by the author or speaker that support the attitude or tone in a pice of poetry or prose.
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diction
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word choice intended to convey a certain effect. Use specific words to convey specific meaning. Ex: "the window was broken." vs. "the window was shattered"
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Figures of Speech
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words or phrases that describe one thing in terms of something else. They always involve some sort of imaginative comparison between seemingly UNLIKE things. Not meant to be taken literally, figurative language is used to produce images in a reader's mind and to express ideas in fresh, vivid, and imaginative ways.
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Flashback
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the use of a scene or episode that interrupts the chronological action of a work to show a previous event.
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Foreshadowing
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the use of hints or clues in a narrative to suggest future action.
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Hyperbole
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a deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration.
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Imagery
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the use of words or phrases by a writer to represent persons, objects, actions, feelings, and ideas descriptively by appealing to the reader's senses.
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Irony
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a surprising twist to an expected outcome (3 types)
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Verbal irony
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occurs when a speaker or narrator says one thing while intentionally meaning the opposite.
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Situational Irony
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occurs when a situation turns out differently from what one would normally expect, though often the twist is oddly appropriate. Ex: "An experienced deep-sea diver drowns in the bathtub."
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Dramatic Irony
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occurs when a character or speaker says or does something that has different meanings from what he or she thinks it means but the audience and possibly other characters understand the read implication of what is said or done.
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Metaphor
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a comparison of two unlike things not using "like" or "as" such as "time is money"
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mood
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the atmosphere or predominant emotion in a literary work (What is the reader supposed to feel: sympathy, fear, pity, loss, regret, etc.)
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Motivation
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a circumstance or set of circumstances that prompts a character to act in a certain way or that determines the outcome of a situation or work.
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Narration
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the telling of a story in writing or speaking
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Onomatopoeia
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the use of words that mimic the sounds they describe as you pronounce them like "buzz" "hiss" "bang"
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Imitative harmony
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when onomatopoeia is used extensively in a poem
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Paradox
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occurs when the elements of a statement contradict each other. Although the expression may appear illogical, impossible, or absurd, it turns out to have a coherent meaning that reveals a hidden truth.
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Personification
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a kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics
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Plot
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the sequence of events or actions in a work- the basis of WHAT HAPPENED
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Point of View
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the perspective from which a narrative is told; there are 3 types
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Third Person Limited (point of view)
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when the story is told from a voice outside the story but who has limited knowledge about the internal states of other characters.
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First person (point of view)
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when a speaker from inside the story tells the reader what is/ has happened and will use "I" throughout the work
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Third Person omniscient (Point of view)
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when the story is told from a voice outside the story but who has "all-knowing" knowledge about the internal states of the other characters.
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Prosody
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the study of sound and rhythm in poetry
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Protagonist
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the central character of a drama, novel, short story, or narrative poem.
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Antagonist
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the character who stands directly opposed to the main character.
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pun
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a play on words that are identical or similar in sound but have sharply diverse meanings. Can be used both seriously and humorously.
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repetition
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a technique where the writer deliberately uses any element of language more than once for effect-words, phrases, sentences, grammatical patterns, or rhythmical patterns.
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rhyme
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repetition of sounds in two or more words or phrases that appear close to each other in a poem.
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End rhyme
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occurs at the end of the lines
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internal rhyme
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occurs within the lines
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slant rhyme
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approximate rhyme, words don't "exactly" rhyme but are close
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Rhyme scheme
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the pattern of the ending lines, usually designated by alphabet letters such as ABBA, CDDC, EFFE, GHHG, CC
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sarcasm
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the use of verbal irony in which a person appears to be praising something but is actually insulting it
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Setting
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the time and place in which events in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem take place.
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shift/turn
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a change or movement in a piece resulting from an epiphany, realization, or insight gained by the speaker, a character, or the reader. TIP: look for the words: but, yet, however, surprisingly.
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simile
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a comparison of two different things or ideas through the use of words "like" or "as". It is a definitely stated comparison in which the writer/ poet says one thing is "like" another. Ex: "The warrior fought LIKE a lion"
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Sound devices
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stylistic techniques that convey meaning through sound. Examples: Rhyme, assonance, consonance, alliteration, and onomatopoeia.
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Structure
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the framework or organization of a literary selection. For example, fiction is usually determined by the plot and chapter/ book divisions; drama depends upon its division into acts and scenes; essays depend upon the organization of ideas; and poetry is determined by its rhyme scheme and separation into stanzas.
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style
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the writer's characteristic manner of writing: his use of language in his/ her particular manner.
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suspense
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the quality of a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem that makes the reader or audience uncertain or tense about the outcome of events. (makes the reader want to keep reading!)
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Symbol
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any object, person, place, or action that has both a meaning in itself and that stands for something larger than itself: a quality, attitude, belief, or value.
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Synecdoche
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A form of metaphor. Occurs when a part of something is used to signify/ represent the whole. Ex: "All hands on deck!"
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Metonymy
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a form of metaphor. Opposite of Synecdoche. The name of one thing is applied to another thing with which it is closely associated. Ex: "I love Shakespear!"-really means you love his work not the person whom you don't know.
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Syntax
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the arrangement of words and the order of grammatical elements in a sentence.
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Theme
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the central message of a literary work. NOT the same as the subject of a work. It is a universal truth that the author of the work wishes to convey to his audience. It is a statement about life or human nature. Some works may present several of these messages which are rarely directly stated. This is what the writer wants the reader to consider, work out for themselves.
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Tone
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the writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject, character, or audience, and is conveyed through the author's choice of words and detail. It can be serious, humorous, sarcastic, sympathetic, indignant, objective, remorseful, celebratory, etc.
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Understatement
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the opposite of hyperbole. It expresses a kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is.
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Blank verse
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defined as unrhymed poetry written in iambic pentameter (u / ) (unstressed, stressed) There are five iambs per lines -10 syllables.
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Soliloquy
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a long speech in a play made by a character who is alone and thus reveals private thoughts and feelings to the audience or reader.
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Foil
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a character in work, who by sharp contrast, serves to stress and highlight the distinctive temperament of another character, usually the protagonist or antagonist.
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Tragic hero
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a good person who suffers because of a weakness
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Intrigue
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if a character initiates a scheme which depends for its success on the ignorance or gullibility of the person or persons against whom it is directed.
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Comic relief
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the introduction of comic characters, speeches, or scenes in a serious or tragic work. (especially a dramatic work)
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Hamartia
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tragic flaw
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Peripeteia
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self-destructive action that the hero takes blindly thus causing the reversal of his fortunes
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anagnorisis
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change from ignorance to knowledge in a tragic hero (enlightenment)
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catharsis
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deep sense of fear and pity which leads to a feeling of relief not depression for the audience.
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allegory
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represent something larger than self (all symbolic)
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Scops
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men who told tells orally around town
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exile
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to kick out of one's land or country
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kenning
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a two word metaphorical description
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ceasura
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a pause
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lament
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complaining
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elegy
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sad, mournful poem
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scanning
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locating accents in poem
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epic
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a long narrative poem about gods or heroes adventures
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epic hero
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main character in an epic. A "larger-than life" figure.
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act
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a main division of drama. Shakespear's plays consist of five and each one is subdivided into scenes
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aside
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a brief remark made by a character and intended to be heard by the audience but not by other characters.
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Atmosphere
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the tone or mood established by events, places or situations.
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Chorus
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In ancient Greek drama, the singing and dancing group whose words formed commentary or interpretation of action.
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Scene
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a small unit of a play in which there is no shift of locale of time
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tragedy
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a type of drama of human conflict which ends in defeat and suffering.
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