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English Semester 2 Final
H American Lit 2
32
Language - English
11th Grade
06/23/2014

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modernism
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1920s movement, disillusionment, words can't convey feelings,the lost generation, Hemingway, Fitz, stein
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postmodernism
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no one correct meaning to something, narrator is character self contradicting plot, disrupts/ plays with form, plays with language, includes fictional artifacts, blurs reality and fiction
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arthur miller
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screenwriter
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hamartia
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mistake or error in judgement, tragic flaw
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unraveling of cause and effect
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roman a clef
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real story with fake characters
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katharisis
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rebirth or spiritual cleansing
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free verse
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poetry without rhyme or reason or meter
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blank verse
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unrhymed iambic pentameter
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elegy
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a lyric poem that laments the dead
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villanelle
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a 19 line poem that relies on repetition
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pyscoanalytic
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desires driven by unconscious
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id
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driving force
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superego
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judgement
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ego
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defense against id
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marxism
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materialism bad, relationships in literature
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derrida
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deconstructionalist
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deconstructionalist
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no single purpose in text
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existentialism
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no purpose in universe and jean paul and albert camus
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nihilism
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state of belief in nothing, subtraction argument
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contemporary
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media saturation
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denouement
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end of story
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incentive moment
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task needed to be done advances plot
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subjectivism
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external reality to internal consciousness
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perspectivism
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many possible ways to see the same thing
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imagism
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precise images clear sharp language
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ts elliot
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ex patriot
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Arthur Miller
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huac
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Robert Frost
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NH farmer
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syzgyzy
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deep psychological relationship
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wallace stevens
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harvard insurance
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collins
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conversational and witty
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