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48 Cards in this Set
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Ben Franklin
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Founding Father. Poor Richard's Almanac. Silence Do Good Letters
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Female abolitionist writer. Main character a metaphor for African-Americans
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Anne Bradstreet
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Puritan, who wrote about family
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Phyllis Wheatley
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First black woman poet published in America
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Edgar Allen Poe
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Father of short story. Inspired the Sherlock Holmes series. Goldbug, Black Cat. Gothing horror. Wrote the raven, and the philosophy of composition
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Jonathan Edwards
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Fire and brimstone puritanical preacher. Sinner in the hand of an angry god. Series on grace
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Frederick Douglass
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Freed slave that wrote a narrative of his life
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Louisa May Alcott
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Daughter of an abolitionist, wrote Little Women
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Transcendental poet and essayist. Iconic of the American spirit. Established an American voice in Self Reliance
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Thomas Paine
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Founding father, pamphlet, Common Sense
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Washington Irving
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Humorous romances, sleepy hollow and rip van winkle.
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Sara Kimble Knight
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Female Puritan, journal of travels give us a diferent picture other than the dark stereotype. Wrote A Travel Diary.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Romantic writer, of the Birthmark and The Scarlet Letter, look at New England life.
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Henry David Thoreau
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Transcendentalist rebel. Left humans and went to the woods, wrote Walden Pond and Civil Disobedience
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Herman Melville
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Dark romantic writer. Fiction of boyhood experiences on vessels. Wrote Moby Dick and Bartleby, and Omoo.
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Frame narrative
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a story within a story
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Conflict
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clashing of two opposing characters or forces or ideas. Or within a character
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Complication
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the event or situation that introduces conflict into the story
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Climax
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the highest point of the story
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Denoument
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the unraveling, falling action, all the action after the climax
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Resolution
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Conclusion
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Direct Characterization
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the narrator tells us....directly stated by the narrative voice and gives information about the character
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Indirect Characterization
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How they act, what they saw, how they do things, how they interact - what all these things tell us. We have to infer
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Monologue
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one person, but can still be in contact with other people. Still in the context of the play...conversation
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Soliloquy
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one speech, not directed towards anyone else, aside form the main action
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Soliloquy
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one speech, not directed towards anyone else, aside form the main action
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Dynamic
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character changes (round, many different characteristics)
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Static
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doesnt change (flat, one characteristic)
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Point of view
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the perspective/vantage point from which the story is told
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1st person
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I phrases
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3rd person omniscient
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knows future, thoughts of the characters, all-knowing
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3rd person limited
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tells from one character's point of view. only one
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Speaker
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narrative voice, not the author's voice
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Unreliable narrator
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misleads you. Crazy, or the writer is ignorant. Or purposely to make a point
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Dramatic irony
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the audience knows something that the characters don't. Oppsites are happeneing, irony.
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Setting
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time, place, culture, etc.
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Diction
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word choice
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Syntax
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sentence structure
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Digression
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a story within a story that has no effect on the main plot. Introduced for thematic reasons only
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Imagery
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words that create pictures
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Parallel structure
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repetition of grammatical structure
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Allusion
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Reference to a historical, mythical, biblical, or other figure
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Symbol
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object which represents something outside itself
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Allegory
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Story which has a representation of something outside of the box. A deeper story, with more meaning
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Drama
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a tale told in action by actors
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Theme
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Lesson of a piece
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Myth
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Story in which God or gods act
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Novel
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extended prose narrative
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