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carpe diem
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latin phrase meaning "seize the day"
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bildungsroman
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German word translated to "development novel"; coming of age story
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Jane Eyre
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canon
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generally, any group of writings that has been established as authentic
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aestheticism
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reverence for beauty, art for art's sake
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allusion
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a passing reference to historical or fictional characters, places, or events
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ambiguity
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double or even multiple meaning
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anachronism
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an event, object, person, or thing that is out of its natural order in time
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antithesis
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a figure of speech in which opposing or contrasting ideas are balanced against each other in grammmatically parallel syntex
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"There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a kind among his." -Helen Keller
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aphorism
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a terse statement of a principle or truth, usually an observation about life
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bumper sticker
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archetype
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a pattern or model of an action or an image that recurs consistently enough in life and literature to be considered universal
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