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14 Cards in this Set
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Allegory
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A symbolic story that usually teaches a lesson.
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Gothic Romance
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Stresses majic, mystery, horror and superstition.
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Fantasy
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Breaks away from reality and establishes a world of its own through imagination.
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Romantic Epic
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Type of literature having a hero who performs brave deeds against great forces and odds who represents the best of his culture.
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Sensibility
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Awareness of the senses and feelings -- intuition.
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Primitivism
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Valuing simplicity, purity and the natural state of the most elemental man -- concept of "the noble savage"
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Focus on Nature
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Nature reflects the characters' feelings or is revered.
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Nostalgia
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Glorifided memory of the past
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Mysticism
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Focus on the spiritual level beyond the concrete, material level.
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Focus on the Unusual
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Stories are often set in unusual times and places, or subjects.
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Focus on the Individual
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Every individual, even the common man, is important.
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Intuition and Art is Intuitive
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We can know things through ur intuition and feelings, not just reason, Art is the reslt of intuitive perception.
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Obsession
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Characters are often totally focused on one goal or one idea to the exclusion of others and everything else.
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Isolation
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In Hawthorne' stories, isolation is regarded as negative in breaking the bond with one's fellow man. Other Romantics regarded it as allowing the individual to think and sense the world around him/her.
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