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Kearns Final 1
literary terms
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English
10th Grade
06/14/2009

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realism
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sought to portray life as faithfully and accurately as possible, focusing on ordinary people suffering the harsh realities of everyday life.
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elegy
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a poem written in tribute to a person, usually someone who has recently died
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metaphor
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a figure of speech that implies a comparison between two unlike things
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simile
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figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared using “like” or “as”
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personification
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the attribution of human powers or qualities to something that is not human
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modernism
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twentieth-century movement which sought to capture the essence of modern life in both form and content. It often expresses the disillusionment and uncertainty of the time period.
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apostrophe
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figure of speech in which an absent person or personified idea is addressed
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Point of View
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the vantage point from which a story is told
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Third-Person limited POV
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the narrator reveals the thoughts of a single character.
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Objective POV
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Narrator describes events without information about the thoughts and feelings of the characters.
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paradox
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a statement that seems to contradict itself, but may actually present a possible truth
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regionalism
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depicts and analyzes the unique qualities of a geographican area and its people
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Free Verse
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poetry that has irregular meter and line length
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Causes of Modernism:
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WWI+II, Great Depression
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