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| A 19th-century idealistic philosophical and social movement that taught that divinity pervades all nature and humanity. |
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| When you use two nouns and compare or contrast them to one another. Unlike simile, you don't use "like" or "as" in the comparison |
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| The most important thing the paragraph says about the topic |
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| a technique that an author or speaker uses to convey to the listener or reader a meaning with the goal of persuading him or her towards considering a topic from a different perspective. |
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| Expressing the same idea in different words to clarify and stress key points |
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| A statement that is formulated as a question but that is not supposed to be answered |
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| A variety of language, spoken in one part of a country which is different in some words, grammar and/or pronunciation from other forms of the same language. |
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| In literature, regionalism or local color fiction refers to fiction or poetry that focuses on specific features – including characters, dialects, customs, history, and topography – of a particular region. |
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| A humorous, exaggerated story common on the American frontier, often focusing on cases of superhuman strength |
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| the creation and convincing representation of fictitious characters |
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| process by which the personality of a fictitious character is revealed by the use of descriptive adjectives, phrases, or epithets |
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| Indirect Characterization |
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| process by which the writer reveals information about a character and his personality through that character's thoughts, words, and actions, along with how other characters respond to that character, including what they think and say about them |
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| Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs |
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| When the words and actions of the characters of a work of literature have a different meaning for the reader than they do for the characters. |
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| When the intended meaning of a statement differs from the meaning that the words appear to express. |
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| A relationship of contrast between what an audience is led to expect during a particular situation within the unfolding of a story's plot and a situation that ends up actually resulting later on. |
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| a literary movement taking place from the 1880s to 1940s that used detailed realism to suggest that social conditions, heredity, and environment had inescapable force in shaping human character. It was depicted as a literary movement that seeks to replicate a believable everyday reality, as opposed to such movements as Romanticism or Surrealism, in which subjects may receive highly symbolic, idealistic, or even supernatural treatment. |
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| The narrator's position in relation to the story being told. |
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| a point of view in which an "I" or "we" serves as the narrator of a piece of fiction. The narrator may be a minor character, observing the action, or the main protagonist of the story. |
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| The point of view in which the story is being told by an outside observer. The author uses the pronouns he, she, and they. |
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| Omniscient 3rd person point of view |
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| i. an all-knowing narrator not only reports the facts but may also interpret events and relate the thoughts and feelings of any character. |
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| Limited 3rd person of view |
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| a narrator reports the facts and interprets events from the perspective of a single character. |
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| the clash of actions, emotions, objectives, or philosophies that inhibit or divert the agonists, either protagonist or antagonist. |
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| The 1920s in the US characterized as a period of carefree hedonism, wealth, freedom, and youthful exuberance, reflected in the novels of writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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| A literary movement in the 1920s that centered on Harlem and was an early manifestation of black consciousness in the US |
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| sub-genre of Modernism beginning in the early 20th century that was characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional aesthetic forms. Representing the radical shift in cultural sensibilities surrounding World War I, modernist literature struggled with the new realm of subject matter brought about by an increasingly industrialized and globalized world. |
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| A literary period spanning from 1945 to the present that fiction rejects the notion of universal truths and plays with the possibilities of interpretations, multiple perspectives, uncertainties, and contradictions. |
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| Concerns the organization of the main events of a work of fiction |
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| A subject of discourse, discussion, meditation, or composition. |
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| A similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based |
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| The leading character or a major character in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text. |
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| The character who is opposed to, struggles against, or competes with the protagonist. |
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| Uncertainty or inexactness of meaning in language. |
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| A modifying phrase consisting of a preposition and its object. |
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| A prepositional phrase which modifies a noun or substantive |
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(to) be, have, do, like, work, sing, can, must
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pen, dog, work, music, town, London, teacher, John
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Adjective
(describes a noun) |
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a/an, the, 69, some, good, big, red, well, interesting
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adverb
(describes a verb, adjective or adverb)
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quickly, silently, well, badly, very, really
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(replaces a noun) |
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preposition
(links a noun to another word) |
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conjunction
(joins clauses or sentences or words)
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| the noun or noun phrase that tells whom or what the sentence addresses |
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| a verb or verb phrase telling what the subject does or is |
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| a part of a sentence that contains its own subject and predicate |
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| a group of related words without a subject or predicate |
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| a word or phrase that modifies or adds information to other parts of a sentence. Adjectives, adverbs, and many phrases and clauses are modifiers. |
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