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Summer English Quiz
cannery row and how to read lit like a professor
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English
11th Grade
09/10/2013

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eddie
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bartender
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gay
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has wife but gets thrown out of house and later in jail
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hazel
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listens to convos and has girly name
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henri
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painter who has been working on canoe for a long time
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william
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former bouncer who killed himself
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old tennesse
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liquor from dora
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tide pool
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cannery row is busy when sardines like high tide is busy
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frog pond
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captain lets the boys use his frog pond
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professorial reader
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memory symbol pattern
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grammar of literature
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has conventions and sets of patterns
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sublimation
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implying things from stated ideas
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archetype
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big word for pattern
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intertextuality
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everything comes from a single source no original works
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death by misadventure
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suicidal death because of societal pressure?
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envoi
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to send off on a mission end of book
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meal scenes
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act of communion
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vampirism
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selfishness and exploitation in humans
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psycological realism
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emphasizes internal aspects of characters
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villanelle
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19 line poem
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literary canon
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stuff we know doesn't exist but is important
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kiddie lit
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everything taken out of kid stories especially hansel and grettel
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four great struggles
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nature, divine, other humans, with ourselves
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rain
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can be cleansing, reflective, dark
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miasma
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contagioius power with life of its own, or odor
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narrative violence
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deaths and suffering narrators introduce to plot not from characters inflicted
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allegory
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one to one basis as opposed to the multipleness of symbolism
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encoded sexuality
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man is always very masculine and female is imprisoned
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geography
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gives setting and mood of story
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seasons
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summer love and passion, winter hatred anger, spring birth, fall harvest and decline in ages
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physical markings
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every main character is different in some form
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literary disease
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picture, mysterious origin, symbolic
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illnesses
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should be ironic and symbolic
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the garden party
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laura main person mom and sister ignorant and class conscience, birds and flight represent characters
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