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27 Cards in this Set
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pun
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play on words (two words that sound the same but have different meaning) need to be educated to understand
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malapropism
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humorous misue of a word, usually done unintentionally by the speaker (lower educated people)
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Iamb
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poetic foot or unit with one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one
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pentameter
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5 iambs in one line- 10 syllables
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blank verse
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unrhymed iambic pentameter
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prose
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no attention to syllables (lower class)
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hero's journey
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call to adventure, threshold, challenges and temptations, abyss, transformation, atonement, return
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chicano
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Mexican-African, usually with close ties to Mexico, immigrants or lower class
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chicano literature
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written to make people aware of the condition of the poor or depressed area
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chicano values
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family, past, Catholicism
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code switching
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when words of another language are intermixed with English
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tradegy
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-involves someone who deserves respect (TRAGIC HERO)
-experiences final or permenant disaster -disaster is unexpected -experienece conveys strong impression of waste, creates pity |
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tragic hero
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-person of importance
-has extrordinary qualities -experiences change of fortune due to his tragic flaw -accepts doom with courage and dignity |
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tragic flaw
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-personality trait that helps create a fatal error in judgement or weakness of character that leads directly to hero's downfall
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magical realism qualities
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-bizarre or magical events
-characters treat events as normal -non-linear time -true cause of events is unclear -setting is true-to-life, historical -believeable characters/dialogue |
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sonnet format
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-14 lines
-abab, cdcd, efef, gg rhyme scheme -Iambic pentameter -final couplet |
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BOOK -> AUTHOR
Things Fall Apart |
Chinua Achebe
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BOOK -> AUTHOR
Merchant of Venice |
William Shakespeare
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BOOK -> AUTHOR
Bless Me, Ultima |
Rudolfo Anaya
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BOOK -> AUTHOR
Nectar in a Sieve |
Kamala Markandaya
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STORY -> AUTHOR
"Six Feet of the Country" |
Nadine Gordimer
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STORY -> AUTHOR
"Shooting an Elephant" |
George Orwell
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STORY -> AUTHOR
"The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" |
Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
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STORY -> AUTHOR
"Axolotl" |
Julio Cortazar
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POEM -> AUTHOR
"The Second Coming" |
WB Yeats
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POEM -> AUTHOR
"Work Without Hope" |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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STORY -> AUTHOR
"The Explosion in the Parlor" |
Bai Xiao-Yi
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