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60 Cards in this Set
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Phantom Palace
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Isabel Allende (Chile)
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Can You
Ballad of the Two Grandfathers |
Nicolas Guillen (Cuba)
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United Fruit Company
Poet's Obligation |
Pablo Neruda (Nigeria)
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Why Literature
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Mario Vargas Llosa (Spain)
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Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter
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Chitra Divakaruni (USA)
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I'm Your Horse in the Night
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Luis Valenzuela (Argentina)
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Out of Alien Days
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Aime Césaire (Martinique)
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When Black Men's Teeth Speak Out
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Yambo (Mali)
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Prayer to Masks
New York |
Senghor (Senegal)
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Another Evening at the Club
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Rifaat (Egypt)
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In the Cutting of a Drink
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Aidoo (Ghana)
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The Happy Man
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Mahfouz (Egypt)
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Mother's Inheritance
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Abu-Khalid (Saudi Arabia)
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The Other Wife
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Colette (France)
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The Falling Girl
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Buzzati (Italy)
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Free Union
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Breton (France)
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figure of speech in which analogy or correspondence function to make vivid or to suggest correlation
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metaphor
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direct correlation of two thing using "like" or "as"
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simile
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makes use of a part to indicate a whole
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synecdoche
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replaces the thing intended with some other thing that is associated with it
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metonymy
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where a non-human thing or concept is given human attributes
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personification
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literally means "turning away"; figure of speech occurring in poetry when the speaker addresses words to some person or thing
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apostrophe
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figure of speech that links together two terms which are customarily opposites
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oxymoron
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symbolic elements in which each element represents a specific abstract concept
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allegory
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essential subject of the story or novel, its dominant ideas, meanings
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theme
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organization of a series of actions or events, implying causality and achieving certain effects
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plot
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a record of events that happened
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narrative
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refers both to the physical location of the events to the time in which they happen
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setting
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determined by who is telling the story--an unidentified author, a protagonist, a minor character
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point of view
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technique of repeating consonant sounds, commonly at the beginning of words
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alliteration
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repetition of the same vowel sound in nearby words
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assonance
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substitution of vowels within words that have the same consonant sounds (tick/tock)
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consonance
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words that sound like what they mean
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onomatopoeia
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words that repeat the same sounds
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rhyme
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words that implicate any or all 5 senses
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imagery
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overstatement, exaggeration
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hyperbole
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the stance taken in a piece of writing toward its subject, usually discernible in the choice of language, such as "mocking", "bitter", "tender"
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tone
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The Danger of a Single Story
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Adichie (Nigeria)
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Adichie
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Nigeria
The Danger of a Single Story |
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Allende
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Chile
Phantom Palace |
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Valenzuela
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Argentina
I'm Your Horse in the Night |
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Llosa
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Spain
Why Literature? |
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Divakaruni
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USA
Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter |
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Buzzati
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Italy
The Falling Girl |
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Breton
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France
Free Union |
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Colette
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France
The Other Wife |
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Abu-Khalid
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Saudi Arabia
Mother's Inheritance |
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Yambo
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Mali
When Black Men's Teeth Speak Out |
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Rifaat
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Egypt
Another Evening at the Club |
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Senghor
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Senegal
Prayer to Masks New York |
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Aidoo
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Ghana
In the Cutting of a Drink |
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Mahfouz
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Egypt
The Happy Man |
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Neruda
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Chile
United Fruit Co Poet's Obligation |
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Guillen
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Cuba
Can You Ballad of the Two Grandfathers |
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Cesaire
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Martinique
Out of Alien Days |
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a technique using irony, sarcasm, or mockery that combines humor wit with a criticism of human folly
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satire
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a school of writing that contains detailed descriptions of everyday life
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realism
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a school of writing that focuses on what is beyond reality, beyond the rational, ordinary experience of humans
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surrealism
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(1930s and 40s) an aesthetic and ideological concept affirming the independent nature, quality, and validity of Black culture
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The Negritude Movement
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(1920s and 30s) a blossoming of African American culture, particularly in the creative arts, embracing literary, musical, theatrical, and visual arts
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The Harlem Renaissance
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