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Trifles
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By Susan Glaspell
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trifles themes
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protruding patriarchy. critiquing women and their work.
men and women can't understand each other. exist in different world's. gender issues. |
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ID - cannerie
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literally: mrs. wright's pet
fig: he killed Minnie foster theme: men and women can't understand... trifles by Susan Glaspell |
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ID - Minnie foster
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literally: mrs. wright before marriage
fig: innocence theme: patriachary trifles |
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ID- knotted quilt
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lit: type of quilting
fig: knotted hubby's throat theme: men and women can't trifles by Susan Glaspell |
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ID - don't strike out
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lit: what troy tells Cory
fig: don't piss me off 3 times theme: love is about submission and sacrifice fences by August wilson |
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fences
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by August wilson
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ID - Gabriel
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lit: troys brother
fig: arch angel in heaven theme: redemption fences by August wilson |
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ID - fences
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lit: troy builds a fence
fig: security theme: African American experience |
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fences themes
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sins of the Father being redeemed through love
the African American experience in the 1950's |
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drama
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single play or group of plays. to perform. usually in theatre.
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play
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the general term for a dramatic piece of lit. by a playwright.
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plot
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sequence of events
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Exposition
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the background or setting
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rising action
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set the conflict in motion
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Climax
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emotional high point
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falling action
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winding down
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foreshadowing
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intro to words to suggest later events
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protagonist
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the main character
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Static Character
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does not develop or change
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dynamic Character
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changes
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flat
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simple and 1-d
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round
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complex full and described in detail
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setting
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time and place
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dialogue
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exchange of words
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soliloquy
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character speaks thoughts out loud on stage
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stage setting
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physical spectacle
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blocking
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actors movements
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theme
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generalization about the meaning of a story
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symbolism
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a words that evokes a range of additional meanings
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tradegy
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downfall of human being. often ends with death
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tragic flaw
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defect in tragic hero
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comedy
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light and amusing literary work
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dramatic irony
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reader knows more then the characters
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stanza
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grouping of lines
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allusion
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implied or indirect reference
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alliteration
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repetition of same consonant sounds
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assonance
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repetition of internal vowel sounds
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onomatopoeia
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resembles the sound
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rhyme
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repetition of similar sounds
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near rhyme
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words are close but not exact
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end stopped
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poetic line comes to a definite stop
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enjambed
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poetic line pauses at end
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Meter
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pattern of rhythm
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caesura
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a break or pause within a line of poetry
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free verse
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unrhymed
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tone
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the way am authors attitude
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denotative meaning
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direct meaning of a word
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connotative
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associated meanings
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simile
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compares using like or as
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metaphor
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comparison workout like our as
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personification
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fiorm of metaphor
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couplet
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two lines with same meter
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quatrain
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four line stanza
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narrative poetry
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long or short poem
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epic
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oldest form of poetry
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ballad
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narrative poem telling story in song
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lyric poetry
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comes from lyre
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ode
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fiorm of praise
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elegy
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memorialize death
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sonnet
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14 lyric poem
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prose poem
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one image
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haiku
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Japanese poem
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dramatic Monologue
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poem in form of speech
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taming of the shrew themes
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Love is about submission and self sacrifice
celebrating patriarchal culture. men superior to women. critiquing patriachary culture. comedy. just fun. not serious. |
