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41 Cards in this Set
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Plot
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the ordering of events by the author- "the what happened next"
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What are the two types of fiction?
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Long-novel
Short- short story |
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Setting
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where it took place, time it took place, social setting the "who of the story"
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What are the four Genres of literature
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Fiction
Drama Non-fiction Poetry |
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Ambiguity
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two possible readings of one charecter
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Theme
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The lesson or underlying idea in the story
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Tone
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How it is presented by the author. the attitude of the story
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Symbol
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One thing stands for another
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Imagery
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Ser of ideas that appeals to the senses
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Irony
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one thing is said or done- but another is meant
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Who were the contemporaries of hemingway?
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Thomas Wolfe, Fitzgerald, William Faulkner
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Who are the main charecters in Goodman Brown
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Goodman Brown, Faith, Goody Cloyse, Devil, Deacon Gookin, Minister
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Who is goody cloyse?
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his chatechism teacher
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What writer saw himself lower than hawthorne but was his friend
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Melville
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the old clock is the bell tower in what city?
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Boston
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Who wrote young goodman brown?
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Ambiguous charecter
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neither good nor bad
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Where does young goodman brown truly see all the people?
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In a Dream
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Who wrote a rose for emily?
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Faulkner
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What does emily symbolize?
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The "old decaying south"
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Where is faulkner from?
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Mississippi
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What was her lovers name?
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Homer
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What did she kill homer with?
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Arsenic
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When/ where did they find homer?
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After her funeral, in the "wedding bed"
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In Lady Elanors Mantle what was killing everyone?
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Small Pox
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What started the plague of disease?
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Lady Eleanors Mantle
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Who made the mantle?
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A woman on her death bed
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who always "bothered" the lady?
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Jervase Helwyse
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What does Jervase Helwyse do at the end that finally ends the epidemic?
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Runs through the streets with the mantle above his head
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Who wrote lady eleanors mantle?
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Hawthorne
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Who wrote The birthmark?
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Hawthorne
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Who are the main charecters in the birthmark?
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Gorgianna, Alymer, Aminidab
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Who laughs at the end of the story?
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Aminidab
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What happenes to Gorgianna when the birthmark fully disapears?
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She dies
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Why does her husband pursue the removal of the birthmark so vividly?
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Because she is almost perfect.
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What does Aminidab think about the whole thing?
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That she is even more beautiful becuase of the birthmark
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Who wrote killings?
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Andre Dubus
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at the beginning of the story who dies?
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Matt fowlers youngest son Frank
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Who killed Frank?
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Richard Strout
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who was Frank with?
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Mary-Ann Richards soon to be ex wife
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What is Franks mothers name?
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Ruth
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