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World Lit. Final
Miss Frey's World Lit. Final
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English
10th Grade
05/29/2012

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Archetype (verbatim)
Definition
- typical images, characters, narrative designs,and themes present in literature
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Pastoral Poetry (verbatim)
Definition
- argues that country life is superior to urban life
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Romanticism (verbatim)
Definition
- style of writing that appeals to the emotions
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Realism (verbatim)
Definition
- type of writing that emphasizes objective documentation of everyday life, usually the working class, and rejects idealiztion and glamour
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Lyric Poetry (verbatim)
Definition
- short poem with one speaker who expresses thought and feeling
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Folktales - Types
Definition
- cumulative
- talking beast stories
- humorous (noodlehead/numbskull)
- realistic tales
- religious tales
- romance/tales of magic (wonder tale)
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Folktales - Gen. Definition
Definition
- stories that grow out of the lives and imagination of people
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Simile - Gen. Definition
Definition
- comparing two objects using like or as
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Metaphor - Gen. Definition
Definition
- comparing two unlike objects not using like or as
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A Pace Like That - Author
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- Yehuda Amichai
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