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35 Cards in this Set
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Archetype
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certain images or ideas reside in the subconscious of all people. (water, symbolizing, rebirth)
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Symbol
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an idea or image that suggest something else, but not in a simple way. Transcends its literal or denotative meaning in complex way
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Conventional Symbol
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recognized by people who share certain cultural and social assumptions. (National Flags)
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Universal Symbols
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recognizable regardless of their culture.
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abstract word
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an intangible idea, condition, or quality, something that cannot be perceived by the senses (Love or patriotism)
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concrete word
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an item that is a perceivable, tangible entity (Kiss or Flag)
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speaker
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describes events, feelings and ideas to readers.
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simile
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comparison between to unlike things that uses like or as
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metaphor
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an imaginative comparison between two unlike things that doesn't use like or as
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personification
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comparison that gives life or human characteristics to inanimate objects or abstract ideas
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Imagery
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words and phrases that describe what is seen, heard, smelled, tasted, or touched.
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Verbal Irony
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created when words say on thing but mean another. most common
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situational irony
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occurs when the situation itself contradicts readers' expectations.
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Dramatic Irony
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occurs when a speaker believes on thing and readers realize something else.
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thesis statement
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an idea, usually expressed in a single sentence, that the rest of the essay will support.
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"Hills Like White Elephants"
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Hemingway
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Gryphon
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Baxter
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Happy Endings
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Atwood
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I'm Nobody! Who Are You?
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Dickinson
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The World is to much with us
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Wordsworth
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The Unknown Citizen
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Auden
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That time of Year Thou Mayst in me Behold
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Shakespeare
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The Sick Rose
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Blake
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When I heard the Learn'd Astronomer
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Whitman
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My Arkansas
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Angelou
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The Argument of His Book
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Herrick
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I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
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Wordsworth
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Sleeping in the Forest
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Oliver
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The Windhover
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Hopkins
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Birches
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Robert Frost
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Traveling Through The Dark
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Strafford
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Fog
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Sandburg
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Morning Song
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Harjo
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Porphyria's Lover
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Browning
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Nine Ten
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Leight
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