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07/20/2012

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allegory
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a form of extended metaphor in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative are equated with the meanings that lie outside of the narrative itself. underlying meaning has a moral, social, and religious or political significance
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anagram
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a word or phrase made by transposing the letters ex. cask to sack, cat to tac
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anaphora
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the deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, or paragrahs ex. "Good food, good cheer, good times." "of all the gin joints, in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine"
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anastrophe
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inversion of the normal syntactic order of words; "Yoda speak"
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animism
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refers to set of beliefs that revolve around the existence of non-human beings ex. Hinduism, Buddhism
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aphorism
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brief saying embodying a moral; a concise statement of a principle or precept given in pointed words "a watched pot never boils"
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asyndterm
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stylistic scheme in which conjunctions are deliberately omitted from a series of related clauses ex. "I came, I saw, I conquered."
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polysyndeton
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repetition of connective or conjunctions in close succession for rhetorical effect
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caesura
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natural pause or break
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chiasmus
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type of rhetoric in which the second part is syntactically balanced against the first ex. "flowers are lovely, love is flowerlike"
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epithet
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word which makes the reader see the object in a clearer or sharper light ex. "wine-dark sea" "blindfolding night"
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hyperbaton
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like anastrophe, similar to anaphora
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malapropism
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an act of using words ridiculously ex. "This is unparalyzed in the state's history" ex. "Marie Scott.. has really plummeted to the top."
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periodic structure
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sentence in which the main clause or its predicate is withheld until the end
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portmanteau
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combination of two or more words to create a new word
ex. smog/fog+smoke
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spoonerism
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shuffling of the first letters of words to make different words therefore change the actual meaning of the sentence ex. "Jabberwocky" "this is a tellular cellophone"
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synecdoche
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when one uses a part to represent a whole "lend me your ears"
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senetia
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use of a wise saying or maxim
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eponym
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using the name of famous persons to attribute similar qualities to someone "the man is an Einstein"
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scesis onomaton
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restatement of an idea in different forms ex. "we succeeded, we were victorious, we won"
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metonymy
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to replace a subject with something closely related to it "change name" "The orders came from the White House"
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litotes
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understatement using the "not un-" construction ex. "High heat and humidity are not uncommon in Charleston in August."
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occupatio
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to talk about something by saying you will not talk about it
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erotesis
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a statement in the form of a questions "For if we lose the ability to perceive our faults, what is the point of living on?"
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hypophora
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asking an introductory question, then answering it at length ex. Paul's letters in Bible
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limerick
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a humorous and frequently bawdy verse of 3 long and 2 short lines rhyming aabba, popularized by Edward Lear
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kunstleroman
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an artist coming-of-age tale
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hegemonic
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having hegemony or dominance; ruling or dominant in a political or social context
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hubris
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excessive pride
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trope
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a figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression
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polysemic
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the ambiguity of having more than one meaning
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metonymic
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using the name of one thing for that of another which is closely related or associated
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epistemic
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of or relating to its degree of validation
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epistemology
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the theory of knowledge with regards to its methods, validity, and scope
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quotidian
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of or occurring every day/ ordinary or everyday
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macaronic
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composed of or characterized by Latin words mixed with vernacular words or nonLatin words given Latin endings; composed of a mix of languages; mixed, jumbled
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hermeneutics
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the branch of knowledge that deals with interpretation
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exegesis
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critical explanation or interpretation of a text, esp. of Scripture
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iamb
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unstressed, stressed
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trochee
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stressed, unstressed ONCE uPON a MIDnight DREAry
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anapest
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unstressed, unstressed, stressed
twas the NIGHT before CHRISTmas and ALL through the HOUSE
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dactyl
Definition
stressed, unstressed, unstressed
HALF a league, HALF a league, HALF a league ONward
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cinquain
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1st stanza, 5 lines, 22 syllables, 2 syllables then 4 then 6 then 8 then 2 ex.
The smell
Everyone moves
to the windows to look
work stops and people start talking
rain came
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clerihew
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humorous, generally uses the name of a well-known person as the first line
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Spenserian sonnet
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14 lines, IP, ababbcbccdcdee, conclusion in couplet, 3 part idea or argument before
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villanelle
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19 lines, 2 repeating lines throughout ex. "do not go gentle into that good night" dylan thomas
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ballad
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song like poem
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elegiac
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4 lines of IP, abab, death elegy
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ottava rima
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8 10-syllable lines, abababcc
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rhyme royal
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7 lines of IP, ababbcc
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Spencerian
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nine-line stanza, 8 lines of IP and a concluding line of Iambic hexameter called an alexandrine, ababbcbcc
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tercet
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3-line rhyming stanza
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terza rima
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3-line stanza in usually IP, interlocking rhyme scheme of aba, bcb, cdc, ded
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traditional literature
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includes ancient stories and has a set form
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parable
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type of Traditional literature; realistic and has a moral, didactic tone
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fable
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type of TL; nonrealistic with moral "beast tales"
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fairy tales
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elements of magic, ideal woman; Charles Perrault French fairy tales in 1600s; 1800s Grimm brthrs, Joseph Jacob British fts, "wonder tales" magic three,
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folktales
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told in language of the people, entertainment purposes; 1600s and 1700s Appalachain transformation of fairy tales; noodlehead stories, characters whom the listener can outsmart
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myth
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stories designed to explain things; native american "parquoi tales"
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legends
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exaggerated tales of real people, places, and things
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Romanticism movement
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18th Century and 19th Century; began in Germany and England; music, art and lit; emphasized imagination, fancy, freedom, emotion, wildness, beauty of the natural world, rights of the individual, nobility of the common man, attractiveness of pastoral life; Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Hugo
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Realism
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19th century reaction to romanticism, true-to-life; rejects classical themes in lit like mythologies, ballads; focus on everyday life; Balzac, Flaubert, Eliot, Dostovesky, Tolstoy
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Symbolism
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19th century; reacted against realism; evoke indirectly and symbolically an order of being beyond the 5 senses world; express highly complex feelings that grew out of everyday contact; Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Yeats, Joyce, T.C. Eliot
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Modernism
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20th century; an experimentation and realization that knowledge is not absolute; loss of sense of tradition, dominance of technology; Einstein, Planck, Freud
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Surrealism
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20th century; element of surprise; unexpected juxtapositions; nonsequitur, Andre Breton leader, free people from false rationality and restrictive customs and structures; dream work
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Existentialism
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individual existence, freedom, and choice, 19th and 20th centuries, Soren Kierkegaard, no objective judgment of right or wrong; Pascal, Nietzche, Hiedegger, Satre
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backdrop setting
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could happen anywhere like a Nancy Drew novel
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figurative setting
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illustrative
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integral setting
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must happen in one place (OZ, columbine)
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sensationalism
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use of emotionally charged words, expressions, or events in order to provoke a strong reaction
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denouement
Definition
ending, open (some answers not answered) closed (all questions answered)
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progressive plot
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must read entire book
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episodic plot
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individual sections
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heroic couplet
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end stopped in iambic pentameter; started by Chaucer
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elegy
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type of lyric that laments for someone or something like love or an idea
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villanelle
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courtly love poem from medieval times
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ode
Definition
lyric longer than elegy and explores topics other than death; in praise of something
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epigram
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a VERY short poem with a clever end or twist
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masculine rhyme
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1-syllable words that give strong feeling of strength or impact
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feminine rhyme
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2 or more syllable rhyme
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Classical Period
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Homeric/Heroic, Classical Greek, Classical Roman, and Patristic Periods; (1200 BCE - 455 CE)
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Homeric/Heroic 1200 BCE - 800 BCE
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greek legends, oral
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Classical Greek 800 - 200 BCE
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writers, playwrights, philosophers like Gorgias, Aesop, Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Euripedes, Sophocles, known as Golden Age of Greece, politics, democracy, art, poetry, architecture, drama and philosophy
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Classical Roman 200 BCE - 455 CE
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roman imperial period, Oivd, Horace, Virgil, Aurelis, Lucretius, Cicero, Quintilian
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Patristic 70 CE - 455 CE
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early Christian writings, St. Augustine, Tertullian, St. Cyprian, St. Ambrose, and St. Jerome, 1st compilation of the Bible
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Medieval Period (455CE - 1485 CE)
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Old English, Middle English Late or High Medieval, The Renaissance and Reformation, Early Tudor, Elizabethan, Jacobean, Caroline Age, Commonwealth Period/Puritan
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Old English (Anglo-Saxon) 428-1066)
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Dark Ages 455-799, Old English epic poems like Beowulf, The Wanderer, and the Seafarer, Carolingian Renaissance 800-850 texts on medieval grammar like encyclopedias
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Middle English (1066-1450)
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Norman French armies invade and conquer England under William I, end of Anglo-Saxon hierachy, emergence of 12th cent. Renaissance (1100-1200) French chivalric works by Chretren de Troyes and French fables from Marie de France and Jean de Meun
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Late or High Medieval (1200-1485)
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Chaucer, Gawain or Pear Poet, Wakefield Master, William Langland, Boccaccio, Petrach, Dante and Christine de Pisan
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The Renaissance and Reformation (1485-1660)
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late 15th, 16th, and early 17th century; break from dogmatic Catholic religion
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Early Tudor 1485-1558
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War of the Roses ends with Henry Tudor VII on throne, Martin Luther split with church, VIII's Anglican split, Edmund Spenser
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Elizabethan (1558-1603)
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Queen saves England from Spanish invasion and internal problems, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Thomas Kyd, and Sir Phillip Sydney
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Jacobean (1603-1625)
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Shakes' later works, Ben Jonson, John Donne, metaphysical poetry, and Ameilia Lanyer
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Caroline Age (1625-1649)
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John Milton, George Herbert, Robert Herrick, and the "Sons of Ben"; during reign of Charles I and his Cavaliers
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Commonwealth Period or Puritan Interregnum 1649-1660
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Oliver Cromwell's Puritan dictatorship, John Milton, Andrew Marvell and Sir Thomas Browne
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Enlightenment (1660-1790)
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Neoclassical, increased influence of classical literature, increased reverence for logic and disdain for superstition; rise in deism, intellectual backlash against Puritanism, America's Revolution
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Restoration Period 1660-1700
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British king's Restoration to throne; dominance of French and classical influences; John Dryden, John Locke, Sir William Temple, Samuel Pepys, Aphra Behn, Jean Racine, Jean-Baptiste Moliere,
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Augustan Age 1700 - 1750
Definition
Joseph addison, Sir Richard Steele, Johnathan Swift, Alex Pope, Voltaire, imitation of Virgil and Horace's literature in English letters
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Age of Johnson 1750-1790
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largely neoclassical, but incoming romanticism, Dr. Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Edward Gibbon, Robert Burns, Thomas Gray, William Cowper, George Crabbe, colonial period in America, Ben Franklin, T. Jefferson, Thomas Paine
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Romantic Period 1790-1830
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nature; imagination, individuality; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; William Blake, John Keats, percy shelley, johann von goethe, jane austen, transcendentalism, emerson and thoreau, gothic writings ann radcliffe, monk lewis, bram stoker, poe, hawthorne
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Victorian and 19th century 1832-1901
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E. Browning, Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, R. Browning, Charles Dickens, Bronte sisters; Pre-Raphaelites like Christina, Dante Rossetti, And williammorris, aestheticism, decadence in walter pater and oscar wilde's writings; naturalist in stephen crane, whitman and dickinson free verse
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Modern 1914-1945
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Yeats, Seamus Heaney, Dylan Thomas, W.H. Auden, Woolf, Wilfred Owen, Frost and O'Connor, Lost Generation (writers of Jazz Age 1914-1929) like Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Harlem Renaissance with James Baldwin, Ralph Waldo Ellison, and Realism
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Postmodern 1945 onward
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T.S. Eliot, George Bernard Shaw, Beckett, Tom Stoppard, Fowles, Calvino, Ginsberg, Pynchon, metafiction, fragmented poetry, multiculturalism; Hughes, Toni Morrison, Cisneros, Zora Hurston, Magical realism, Carpenter, Gunter Grass and Salman Rushdie
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AA Lit
Definition
Phillis Wheatley, 1st AA poet, Eloise Greenfield, Nikki Giovanni
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miscue analysis
Definition
process of assessing the strategies students use in their reading
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rubric
Definition
form that enables rating quality of student performance, according to a predetermined set of criteria and standards, use a rating scale
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running record
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documents a child's reading out loud; evaluate reading loud, note errors and miscues
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6 universal stages of language acquisition
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prelinguistic, holophrastic, two-word, telegraphic, intermediate development, adult
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5 components of 2nd language acquistion
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acquired system, monitor hypothesis, natural order hypothesis, input hypothesis, affective filter hypothesis
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analytic language
Definition
one uses very few bound morphemes
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synthetic language
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uses large numbers of bound morphemes and often combines strings of them to form a single word
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types of prescribe language
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concrete (preservation), semiconcrete (graphics), semiabstract (symbols like notches on animal bones), abstract (scripts, cuneiform)
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compound sentence
Definition
IC + IC with coordinating or correlative conjunction
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complex-compound
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IC + IC + DC
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correlative conjunction
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either-or neither-nor
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restrictive clauses
Definition
the girl who wrote the story, the cat that ate the fish
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nonrestrictive clauses
Definition
the girl, who wrote the story, etc.
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doublespeak
Definition
misuse of language often deliberately in order to mislead (physical persuasion)
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inductive reasoning
Definition
make generalizations based on particular facts or examples
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deductive reasoning
Definition
builds from accepted truths to specific conclusions
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Cavalier poets
Definition
Ben Jonson, Robert Herrick, Richard Lovelace, Thomas Carew, Sir John Suckling
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metaphysical poets
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British lyric poets of 17th century; metaphysical concerns like principles of reality transcnding those of any particular science
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graveyard poets
Definition
focused on death as berreavement and sprang up during 18thc
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Pre-Raphaelites
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1848, protest the unimaginative artificial historical art of 18th and 19th cen. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, period before Raphael
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syllogism
Definition
consists of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion; an argument the conclusion of which is supported by two premises, the major one that is the predicate of the conclusion, minor contains the term that is subject of the conclusion all a=c, all b=a, therefore all b=c
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post hoc
Definition
a occurs before b; therefore a causes b
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non sequitur
Definition
an argument that does not follow logically the statement before
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dipthong
Definition
a vowel sound whose production requires the tongue to start in one place and move or glide to the other; two vowels
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affricative
Definition
complex speech sound consisting of a stop consonant followed by a fricative (child, joy)
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fricative
Definition
consonant, like f or s, produced by forcing air through a constricted passage
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courtly love
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convention of lyric poetry; chivalric romances; lover bachelor knight, idealizes and suffers on behalf of unrequited love
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prosaic
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prose narrative
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timeline for English literature
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Old English, Middle English, renaissance, neoclassical, romantic, victorian, modern
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