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35 Cards in this Set
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Simile
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comparison using like or as
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imagery/controlling imagery
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descriptive language appealing to the five senses.As well as sustained image.
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metaphor
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comparison without the words like or as
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personification
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making something unreal have life like qualities
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refrain
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line or lines repeated
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mood
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emotional quality
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theme
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central message
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oxymoron
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figure of speech where opposite ideas are combined.
ex. jumbo shrimp |
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setting
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time and place
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assonance
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mood=atmosphere atmosphere=mood
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climax/turning point
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highest emotional pitch
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evocative words
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words that have emotional meaning
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connotative
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suggest or implies meanings
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denotative
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literal meaning of a word
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rhetorical question
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a question to which there is no answer
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persuasion
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speech or language used to convince
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refrain
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A phrase, verse, or group of verses repeated at intervals throughout a song or poem, especially at the end of each stanza.
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deism
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view of god rationalist had
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romanticism
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artistic movement, imagination and feeling, valued emotional not emotion.
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Jonathan Edwards
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Puritan. Author of "Sinners in the hands of an angry god"
son of Increase Mather. |
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Cotton Mather
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Puritan preacher.
Alive during the Great Awakening. |
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democracy
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government by the people
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McCarthyism
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guilty with evidence.
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transcendentalism
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philosophical and literary movement
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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dark romantic
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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transcendentalist
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Henry David Thoreau
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transcendentalist and author of civil disobedience
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theocracy
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ruling by the church
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rationalism
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reliance of science facts not on faith.
ex. Reason by: Thomas Paine |
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James Fenimore Cooper
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First American Novelist
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Washington Irving
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first American short story writer
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Herman Melville
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Dark Romantic. Hawthorne inspired Melville
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Walt Melville
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Free verse writer.
People thought he was terrible |
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Free Verse
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no set rhyme or meter
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monarchy
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state ruled
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