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World Lit South America
South American stories and poems
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Literature
Undergraduate 2
09/26/2012

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Catholic
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most widely practiced religion in SA
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Indios
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Decendants of the Indians
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Mestisos
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mixed races
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Africans
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lost of black people in SA due to Slavery
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Brazil
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country with the largest number of slaves
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Industrial revolution
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slavery ended
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Museum of Inquisition
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Spanish people tortured the natives when trying to teach them Catholicism
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Simone Bolivar
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led the natives against the Europeans
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Borges
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wrote "Story from Rosendo Juarez"
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"Story from Rosendo Juarez" by Borges takes place in
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Argentina
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Episodic
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divided into episodes-"Story from Rosendo Juarez" by Borges
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Cortazar
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wrote "End of the Game"
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"End of the Game" by Cortazar takes place in
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Argentina
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Letitia, Holanda, narrator, and Ariel B.
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"End of the Game" characters
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Garmendia, Rosendo Juarez, Luis Irala, yardmaster
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characters of "Story from Rosendo Juarez"
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"right of passage story"
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"end of the game"
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Paz
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wrote "Two Bodies"
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"Two Bodies" by Paz takes place in
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Mexico
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Stanzas
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were in poem "Two Bodies"
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Stanza definition
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when poems have 5 parts
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Tetrain definition
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when poems have 3 lines per "paragraph"
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Castellanos
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wrote "Chess"
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where "Chess" by Castellanos takes place
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Mexico
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what the stanzas in "Two Bodies" by Paz are about
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Relationships-1. waves in the ocean=peace 2. stones=silent/stubborn. 3. roots=sex. 4. knives=fighting 5. stars=emptiness (breaking up)
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what the lines in "Chess" by Castellanos are about
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relationships: 1st lines=mind games/messing w/ each other 2nd lines=rules are est and promised to abide by 3rd lines=ruining each other-someone has to win
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2 poems about downfall of relationships
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"Chess" by Castellanos, and "Two Bodies" by Paz
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Bombal
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Wrote "The Tree"
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where did "The Tree" by Bombal take place
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Chile
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Surreal
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more than reality-things that are invisible or irrational
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concept of Surrealism was used in what story
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"The Tree" by Bombal
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Brigada and Luis
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characters in "The Tree" husband and wife
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Stream of consciousness
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from "The Tree"=music sets Brigada's mood and gets her thinking-writer tells story of characters mind/thoughts
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Rubber tree metaphor
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in "The Tree"-it is a metaphor for Brigada and Luis marriage
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dad thinks she is retarded
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Brigada from "The Tree"
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"frightened doe"
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Luis says that the reason he marries Brigada is because she looks like this
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Solarzano
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wrote "Crossroads"
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where did "crossroads" by Solarzano take place?
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Guatemala
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Conformity
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from "crossroads" by Solarzano-opposite of rebellion-does not equal freedom-keeps society stable and "good", can be bad if people mindlessly follow the rules
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Vaudeville
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light theatrical genre=comical entertainment
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man, woman, flagman, and train
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characters in "crossroads", by Solarzano
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keeps trains from colliding
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flagmans job
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white flower
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to be worn by the woman meeting the man at the train station
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two stories with Surrealism
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"The Tree" by Bombal and "Crossroads" by Solarzano
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man and woman are not conforming by not getting married
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"Crossroads" by Solarzano
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Mistral
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wrote "Serene Words" poem
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"Serene Words" by Mistral takes place in
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Chile
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religious poem
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"Serene Words" by Mistral-about Jesus and his love/death
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1st Latin American author to win Nobel prize for Lit
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Mistral
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Love with conquer hate
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"Serene Words" by Mistral
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love, loss, joy, and suffering
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"Serene Words" by Mistral
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Marquez
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wrote "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"
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where "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by Marquez takes place
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colombia
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bystanders look for ??? on the angel to see if he's real or not
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a navel
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what background do the bystanders think the angel is
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Norweigian
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Magic Realism
Definition
concept applied to fiction-unexpected or improbable, but not impossible element in a story or magic elements incorporated into a real story
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Aramaic
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language Jesus spoke-the bystanders wondered if the Angel was speaking that language since he did not know Latin
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consolation miracles
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performed by the angel in "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by Marquez-leper sprouts sunflowers, blind man grew new teeth, and paralytic almost won the lottery
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"The Intruder"
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written by Borges
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Cristian and Eduardo
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characters in "The Intruder" by Borges
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older brother in "The Intruder" by Borges
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Cristian
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who kills Juliana in "The Intruder"?
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the older brother,Cristian
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which story had a reference to Cain and Abel in it?
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"The Intruder", by Borges
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A person born of European parents, that was born in SA
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Creole
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