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Eng Lit II
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Undergraduate 2
05/09/2014

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Absurdist
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Generic mode of drama where human existence has no meaning, no purpose; in absurdist theater, constructions such as plot, setting, language break down and become illogical or incomprehensible (like human existence itself)
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Allegory
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a form of an extended metaphor in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative are equated with meanings that lie outside the narrative itself
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Anaphora
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Device of repetition in which the same word (or words) is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences
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Apostrophe
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a figure of speech in which someone (usually but not always absent), some abstract quality, or a nonexistent personage is directly addressed as though present
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Didacticism
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Instructiveness in a work, one purpose of which is to give guidance, particularly in moral, ethical, or religious matters; didactic works seek to have an ultimate effect, meaning, or result outside themselves
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Dramatic Monologue
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A type of lyric poem that features the voice of a single person (who is not the poet) in a specific situation or at a critical moment. The main principle controlling the poet's choice and formulation of what the lyric speaker says is to reveal to the reader the speaker's temperament and character
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Elegy
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A sustained and formal poem setting forth meditations on death or another solemn theme. The meditation often is occasioned by the death of a particular person, but it may be a generalized observation or the expression of a solemn mood
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Epistle
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A formal letter
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Farce
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A dramatic piece intended to excite laughter and depending less on plot and character than on improbable situations, the humor arising from gross incongruities, coarse wit, or physical comedy
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Iamb
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A poetic foot consisting of an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable
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Interior Monologue
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a discursive recording of the (unspoken) thoughts or feelings of an individual
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Metafiction
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A term used to describe the ways in which a text self-consciously draws attention to its status as a work of art, usually to pose questions about the relationship between fiction and reality. A work like this is also sometimes called “self-reflexive.”
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Pathetic Fallacy
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a phrase invented by John Ruskin in 1856 to signify any representation of inanimate natural objects that ascribes to them human capabilities, sensations, and emotions
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Villanelle
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A French verse form consisting of five three-line stanzas and a final quatrain, with the first and third lines of the first stanza repeating alternately in the following stanzas.
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"Jenny"
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D. Rosetti, Poem, Fallen women, Victorian
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"Goblin Market"
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C. Rosetti, Poem, Fallen women, Victorian
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"Porphyria's Lover", "My Last Duchess"
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R. Browning, Poem, Victorian, murder
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"In an Artist's Studio"
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C. Rosetti, Poem, Victorian
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"The Lady of Shalott", "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
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Tennyson, Poem, Victorian/Cusp Modernist
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"Dover Beach"
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Arnold, Poem, Victorian
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"Dulce et Decorum est"
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Owen, Poem, Modernism
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"They"
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Sassoon, Poem, Modernism
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"The Second Coming", "Sailing to Byzantium"
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Yeats, Poem, Modernism
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"Modern Fiction", "The Mark on the Wall"
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Woolf, Short Story, Modernism,Stream of Consciousness
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"The Dead"
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James Joyce, Short Story, Modernism, Stream of Consciousness
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"The Garden Party"
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Mansfield, Short Story, Modernism
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"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", "Tradition and the Individual Talent"
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Eliot, Poem, Modernism
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“The Force . . . the Flower”, “Fern Hill,” “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”
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Thomas, Poem, Modernism
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Waiting For Godot
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Beckett, Play, Post-Modern
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To Room Nineteen
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Lessing, Short Story,Post-Modern
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"Digging", "Punishment"
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Heaney, Poem, Post-Modern
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"The Prophet's Hair"
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Rushdie, Short Story, Post-Modern
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Atonement
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McEwan, Novel, Post-Modern
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