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metaphor
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primary trope of a writer (indirect comparision) makes you think of two things at once.
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saussure
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wrote a general course in linguistics which changed how people thought of language. Language=signs.
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signifier
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word for something
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signifie
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makes you think of real things
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traditore with an I
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to translate
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tradutore with a U
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to betray
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Poerty- poises
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a creator
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Prometheis
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a man who got punished for strealing fire from the gods and giving it to humans
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faust
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a scientist that made a deal with the devil for forbidden knowledge.--like Kurtz
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secular age
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human beings matters ? s if there is a god. Frankenstein is a secularist-model of a modern scientist that belieces he can answer all the questions- has no boundries.
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logical positivism
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nothing the human being cannot know gives time and science will take us there
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Verisimilitude
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similiar to the truth
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lapidary
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crystalline style of writing conscious.
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allegory
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trope (figure of speech) an extended metaphor turning from literative to figurative. 2 stories alongside each other.
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metonymy
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interdependence of two words. EX> crown/king – can substitute one word for the other.substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself
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Synecodoche
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extended forward- substitute a part for the whole EX. Whose got wheels? Wheels used to sub. For the entire car.
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pathetic fallacy
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fake emotional connection, where native reflects the internal drama of a character.
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insurrection
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struggle for power, rebels. EX. Prometheus stealing fire is an insurrection against zeus.
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philogy
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lover of words
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lex talionis
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the law of the talian- eye for an eye. Punishment fits the crime- the way the monster gets back at his creator for not making him a mate is by killing frankensteins wife.
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cui bono
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to what good
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functional illiteracy
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able to read but not understand complex books.
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satire
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strictly defined as a literary genre or form;
A literary technique of writing or art which principally ridicules its subject often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change |
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anarchism
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Political movement an archos- w/out a leader against any form of gov.
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paraclet
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holy spirit (comfort of the one alongside you)
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Coincidentia opposiforum
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the unity of opposites.
cannot be but it is-- paradox |
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imperialism
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a policy of extending your rule over foreign countries
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colonialism
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exploitation by a stronger country of weaker one; the use of the weaker country's resources to strengthen and enrich the stronger country
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racism
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the prejudice that members of one race are intrinsically superior to members of other races , discriminatory or abusive behavior towards members of another race
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white seplucure
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only appearing as something, then when you peel back the layers your left with who you really are.
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