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What is Romanticism?
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A literary & artistic movement of the 19th century, following the Age of Reason.
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What are the 4 qualities of Romanticism?
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1)Intuition over fact
2)Imagination over reason 3)Reverence for nature 4)Accent on mystery "I Idealize Right Actions"-acronyms to help memorize the 4 qualities. |
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What is third-person omniscient point of view?
What are the characteristics of this perspective: |
The point of view in which:
an all-knowing narrator relates the events of the story. Characteristics: A narrator stands outside the action; Details about the thoughts and feelings of all the characters; The narrator's commentary about the events of the story. |
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What is characterization?
How is characterization achieved? |
The author's way of developing a character through revealing the personality traits of his/her character.
Characterization is achieved through (1) direct characterization & (2) indirect characterization. |
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What is direct characterization?
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The narrator tells the reader what the character is like.
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What is indirect characterization?
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The personality traits are revealed through the words, thoughts, & actions of the characters.
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What were the cultural attitudes of New Englanders in the 1720s?
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Attitudes (revealed from the story The Devil & Tom Walker)that mocks the New Englanders/Puritan values of outwardly being holy & against the devil, while overcharging their customers with high interest rates which bankrupt them. Also, Irving shows colonists attitudes regarding Native Americans by calling them "savages."
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What is a single effect?
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A certain, unique effect.
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What were the single effects created by "The Fall of the House of Usher?"
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Creative artist;
Isolation produces distorted reality; Being in isolation w/ someone, who is distorted, can distort a normal person. |
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What are the qualities of the style of Emily Dickerson?
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1)unusual capitalization/punctuation
2)brevity (shortness;briefness) of stanzas/lines 3)use of figurative language |
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Why do poets use rhyme?
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To (1)create pleasant musical sounds;
(2)to unify groups of lines & stanzas. |
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What is exact rhyme?
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When 2 words have identical sounds in their final accented syllables; end sounds are identical.
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What is slant rhyme?
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The final/end sounds are similar, but not identical.
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What are the qualities of the style of Walt Whitman?
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(1)use of cataloguing
(2)use of parallelism (3)use of free verse |
