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| "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?/Thou art more lovely and more temperate;" Shakespearean couplet with ABAB CDCE EFEF GG rhyme scheme |
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| I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
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| a black girl growing up in the South struggles against racism,sexism,and lack of power |
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| a girl (Alice) falls asleep and dreams of a series of adventures;children's novel;fantasy |
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| a great warrior,goes to Denmark on a successful mission to kill Grendel;he returns home to Geatland ,where he becomes king and slays a dragon before dying;poem;alliterative verse,elegy,small scale heroic epic;author unknown;setting around 500 AD |
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| a group pf animals mount a successful rebellion against the farmer who rules them,but their dreams of equality for all are ruined when one pig seizes power;novella,dystopian animal fable |
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| a group of Chinese mothers and their American-born daughters struggle to communicate and understand each other;four families depicted Woo,Jong,Hsu,and St.Clair |
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| a group of English boys(Jack,Piggy,Ralph,Roger,Sam,Eric,and Simon),marooned on an island,rapidy turn lawless and bloodthirsty |
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| a group of poor kids(greasers)hold their own against a group of rich kids(socials aka socs),losing two of their own in the process;protagonist:Ponyboy Curtis;bildungsroman(coming of age);setting 1960s |
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| a man is shipwrecked on an island,where he lives for more than 20 years,fending off cannibals and creating a pleasant life for himself |
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| a monomaniacal captain tries and fails to kill a monstrous white whale;adventure story,quest tale,allegory;protagonist:Ishmael,Ahab;antagonist:Ahab,great white sperm whale |
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| a naive young man(Henry Fleming)mantures as a result of fighting in the Civil War |
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| a pampered dog(Buck)adjusts to the harsh realities of life in the North as he sruggles with his recovered wild instincts and finds a master(John thorton)who treats him right;novel,adventure story,setting late 1890s |
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| a self-made man(Gatsby)woos and loses a married aristocratic woman(Daisy)he loves |
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| A Trojan (Aeneas)destined to found Rome,undergoes many trials on land and sea during his journey to Italy,finally defeating the Latin Turnus and avenging the murder of Pallas. |
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| a young woman(Esther Greenwood)whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies |
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| afther surviving an affair with a handsome military man,a woman kills herself;Russian,1970s,psychological novel |
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| afther surviving a poverty-stricken childhood,the death of his mother,a cruel stepfather,and an unfortunate first marriage,a boys finds success as a writer;themes:plight of the weak,importance of equality in marriage,dangers of wealth and class |
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| Their Eyes Were Watching God |
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| afther two marriages to oppressive men,a woman(Janie Crawford)finds temporary happiness with a husband twelve years her junior;themes:the illusion of power,non-necessity of relationships,folkloric quality of religion |
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| an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state |
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| an ex-slave is haunted by the memory of the daughter she killed;historical fiction,ghost story;characters include:Bbay Suggs,Denver,Sethe |
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| an impoverished young woman(Jane)struggles to maintain her autonomy in the face of oppression,prejudice,and love;Gothic novel,bildungsroman(coming of age),social protest novel |
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| bildungsroman(coming of age);afther being expelled from a prep school,a 16-years-old boy(Holden Caulfield)goes to NYC,where he reflects on the phoniness of adults and heads towards a nervous breakdown |
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| book written by George Orwell,announced an insane world of dehumanization through terror in which the individual was systematically obliterated by an all-power elite;key phrases:Big Brother,doublethink,Newspeak,the Ministry of Peace...Truth...Love |
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| epic/novel poem written in blank verse and encompasses nine books(the woman's number,the number of the prophetic books of Sibyl) |
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| four March sister(Amy,Jo,Beth,Meg)in 19th century New England struggle with poverty,juggle their duties,and their desire to find love |
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| Gothic novel;a scientist creates a monster,and then abandons it in horror,a decision that leads to disaster and the deaths of nerly everyone he loves |
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| heroic fantasy novel about a small group of British rabbits;Fiver,a young runt rabbit who is a seer,recives a frightening vision of his warren's imminent destruction |
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| in an futuristic America,a firefighter(Guy Montag)decides to buck society,stop burning books,and start seeking knowledge;themes:censorship,knowledge vs.ignorance,religion as a knowledge giver |
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| in an attempt to prove a theory,a student(Raskolnikov)murders two women,afther which he suffers greatly from guilt and worry;psychological drama,setting in the 1860s |
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| inspired by witch's prophecy,a man murders his way to the throne of Scotland,but his consciencee plagues him and his fellow lords rise up against him;themes:unchecked ambition as a corrupting force,relationship between cruelty and masculinity,kingship v.tyranny |
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| it is set in a future society which is at first presented as a utopian society and gradually appears more and more dystopian;therefore,it could be considered anti-utopian;the novel follows a boy named Jonas through the twelfth year of his life;book allegedly gloried Communism |
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| "In Reference to her Children" |
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| maintains the bird metaphor throughtout the poem's ninety-six lines,describing the various "flights" of five of her children and her concerns about those remaining in the nest |
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| NOT anti-society or antii-community;presupposes that the mind is initially the subject to an unhappy conformity;calls on individuals to value their own thoughts,opinions,experiences above those presnted to them by other individuals,society,and religion; "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction," "society everywhere is in conspiracy against the mankind," and "What I must do is all that concerns me,not what people think." |
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| set in modern times and focuse on the current circumstances of Stanley Yelnats,an unfortunate,unlucky young man who is sent to Camp Green Lakes for a crime he didn't commit |
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| Southern gothic novel;bildungsroman(coming of age);narrator:Scout;serious issues dealing with rape and inequality |
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| The Picture of Dorian Gray |
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| the portrait of a sinful young man ages while the young man depicted in the portrait remains youthful;English Gothic novel |
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| the protagonist of the story is a boy named Sandy whose family must deal with a variety of struggles imposed upon them due to their race and class in society in addition to relating to one another |
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| told in chapters alternatin from Lorraine's and John's point of view,opens with an "Oath," signed by both John and Lorraine,two high school sophomores,in which they swear to tell only the facts,in this "memorial epic" about their experiences with Angelo Pignati |
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