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chap 3 review
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English
11th Grade
12/16/2010

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narrative poem
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poem that tells a story such as "The Raven"
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Definition
started the transcendental club and wrote the popular essay "self reliance"
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Slave trader
Definition
Tom Walker refuses this job title.
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Allegory
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A story in which a character, an object, and events represent abstract ideas.
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Stanza
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a group of lines that form a poetic unit.
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Walden
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Henry David Thoreau's account of his experiment of simple living in a hut.
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Internal rhyme
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Similarity of sound within a poetic line.
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Parallelism
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Technique that presents ideas of equal importance with the same grammatical form
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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most famous poet of the 1800s with a career that spanned over 50 years
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Transcendentalism
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Belief basded on idea one is capable of a higher truth through intuition.
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Essay
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a short work of nonfiction about a single subject that presents writer's views
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Bubonic plague
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disease that killed 25 million Europeans in the mid 14 th century
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Foreshadow
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a writers use of hints or clues to indicate events taht will occur later
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free verse
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poetry without regular patterns of rhyme or rhythm.
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Aphorism
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a brief statement that expresses a general principle about life.
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Conventional poetry
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form of poetry that follows certain fixed rules of rhyme, rhythm and line length
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Quatrain
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a four line poetic stanza
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Trochaic Tetrameter
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metrical pattern with four pairs of stressed and unstressed syllables
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End Rhyme
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Pattern of rhyming words at the end of poetic lines
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Anaphora
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repeating the same word or phrase at the beginning of poetic lines
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Organic form
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form of poetry, also known as irregular form that takes shape from content.
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Cataloging
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use of frequent lists of people, objects and attributes
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Usurer
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Tom Walker's job title for the devil
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Kidd Pirate
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owner of the buried treasure that tempts Tom Walker
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