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YOLANDA TUCKER
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12th Grade
04/29/2009

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ROSE
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THE WIFE IN THE BOOK FENCES
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OKONKWO
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WARRIOR IN HIS VILLIAGE MAIN CHARACTER INT THE BOOK  THINGS FALL APART
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THINGS FALL APART
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WRITTEN  BY CHINUA ACHEBE
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enjambment

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the running on of the thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical break.
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HEART OF DARKNESS
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WRITTEN BY JOSEPH CONRAD
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HOUSE OF MIRTH
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WRITTEN BY EDITH WHARTON
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FENCES
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WRITTEN BY AUGUST WILSON
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TROY MAXSON
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THE MAIN CHARACTER AND THE HUSBAND OF ROSE
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ROSE
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THE SECOND WIFE OF TROY MAXSON
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LYONS
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 TROYS OLDEST SON  FROM HIS FIRST MARRIAGE
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RAYNELL
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TROYS DAUGHTER OUTSIDE OF HIS MARRIAGE WITH ROSE
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IMAGERY
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figurative description or illustration; rhetorical images collectively.
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PERSONIFICATION
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the attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions often seen when tlking about a rhetorical figure
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Lily Bart
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the novel's protagonist,

an unmarried 29-nine-year-old woman who desires to be a social success

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Bertha Dorset
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The wife of George Dorset
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Lawrence Selden
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He is a lawyer by profession, but he is not particularly wealthy, which prevents Lily from marrying him even though they love one another. Throughout the novel
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Gus Trenor 
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Trenor, the husband of Judy, is a lonely, moody man who has a particular liking for Lily even though he is married
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Judy Trenor
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Judy, a close friend of Lily's
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Marlow
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The protagonist of Heart of Darkness.
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protagonist
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the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work
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antagonist
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a person who is opposed to, struggles against, or competes with another; opponent; adversary
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Kurtz
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the object of Marlow's quest.
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Nwoye
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Okonkwo's oldest son, who Okonkwo believes is weak and lazy
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Ezinma
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he only child of Okonkwo's second wife
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Ekwefi
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mother of enzima n okonkwo's second wife
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Ikemefuna
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A boy given to Okonkwo by a neighboring village,

He develops an especially close relationship with Nwoye

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Unoka
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Okonkwo's father, of whom Okonkwo has been ashamed since childhood
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Ojiugo
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Okonkwo's third and youngest wife

Okonkwo beats Ojiugo during the Week of Peace.

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allegory
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is a form of extended metaphor, in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative, are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself
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ONOMATOPOEIA

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a word that imitates the sound it represents.
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satire

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a literary tone used to ridicule or make fun of human vice or weakness, often with the intent of correcting, or changing,
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