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13 Cards in this Set
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Gothic Literature
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fiction that uses strange, gloomy settings and mysterious, violent, often supernatural events to create suspense and terror
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Allusion
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deliberate repetition of words, phrases, or sentences at beginnings of successive clauses, sentences or paragraphs to intensify impact
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Heroic couplet
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two rhyming lines in iambre pentameter
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"Upon the burning of Our House"
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contrasts earthly wealth with heavenly wealth
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Aphorism
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a short statement expressing a truth or opinion about life
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Folk Take
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short story that exhibits a fairy-tale unreality, supernatural elements, and reveals something about the culture
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Rhetorical question
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statement that does not demand a response but action
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Lyric
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any short poem expressing the writer's emotions and thoughts
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Jonathan Edwards
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sermon sparked the Great Awakening
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Anne Bradstreet
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Poetry deals with Puritan themes of domestic life and God/ first noteworthy American poet
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"Speech in the Virginia Convention"
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contains allusions to mythology and the Bible
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Thomas Paine
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The Crisis, Number 1 - written to keep up morale of fighting revolutionary troops
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Autobiography
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study of a person's life written by that person
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