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Literature
11th Grade
06/07/2012

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symbols
Definition
meanings in themselves but also representing other things as well
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Spirituals
Definition
Among most important of all folk literature and America's unique contribution to the folk music of the world
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Refrain
Definition
a phrase or sentence which is repeated at intervals
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Personification
Definition
comparison in which human qualities are given to inanimate objects or animals
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Simile
Definition
expressed comparison of unlike things in which the words like , as resembles, or similar to are used
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Metaphors
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implied comparisons in which one thing is described in terms of another
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Local color writing
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sketches and stories portraying the life of a particular geographic location
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hymns
Definition
slow songs sung in church
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Popular Songs
Definition
used in the working jobs to help make it go faster
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Tone
Definition
writer or speaker's attitude toward his subject matter or representing real life accurately in literature
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