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Themes in Lit. Honors Midterm
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Undergraduate 2
03/16/2008
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Papa's Waltz
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London 1802
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Wordsworth
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I wandered lonely
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Wordsworth
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Beautous Evening, Calm and Free
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Wordsworth
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
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Keats
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Ozymandias
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shelley
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Do not go Gentle
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Thomas
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I will put chaos into 14 lines
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Millay
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The world is too much
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Wordsworth
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Ode to the West Wind
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Shelley
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The Road not taken
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Frost
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Birches
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Frost
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Fire and ICe
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Frost
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Stopping by the woods
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Frost
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the Mending Wall
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Frost
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those winter sundays
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Hayden
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On first looking into chapmans homer
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Keats
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Nothing Gold can stay
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Frost
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young Goodman Brown
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Hawthorne
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Carnal Knowledge
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Boyle
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Birthmark
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Hawthorne
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How to write a war story
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O'Brien
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A rose for Emily
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Faulkner
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Happy Memories Club
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Summer
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Updike
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First Confession
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The voice you hear when you read silently
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connotaion
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literally meaning of the word
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denotation
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dictionary definition of the word
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allegory
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everything is a symbol of something else
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symbol
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something is used to show something else
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initiation
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personification
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giving humanlike qualities to none human things
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simile
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a comparison using like or as
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metaphor
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a comparison
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rhyme scheme meter
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reader response theory
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narrator/speaker
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irony
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indication something that is opposite of truth
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tone/mood
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a particular style or manner, as of writing or speech; mood
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diction
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style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words
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liberal arts
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imagery
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the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively
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point of view
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the position of the narrator in relation to the story, as indicated by the narrator's outlook from which the events are depicted and by the attitude toward the characters.
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sonnet
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a poem, properly expressive of a single, complete thought, idea, or sentiment, of 14 lines
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free verse
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verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern
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villignelle
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do not go gentle,
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foreshadow
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to show or indicate beforehand
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alliteration
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repetition of a consonant sound
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assonance
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repetition of a vowel sound
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romanticism
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allusion
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conversational voice
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