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85 Cards in this Set
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Beyond terms of Natural Law
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Romanticism
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About the individual
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Romanticism
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Elevated Diction
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Romanticism
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Emotionally Driven
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Romanticism
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Exotic, Nature is good or evil
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Romanticism
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Present (here and now)
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Realism
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heredity & environment
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Realism
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Fate
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Realism
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Focus on things as they are
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Realism
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Freedom
Choice Commitment Responsibility Anguish/Dread |
Existentialism
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Heredity
Environment Chance=Fate |
naturalism
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Clumsy
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Anti-hero
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Weak
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Anti-hero
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Inept
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Anti-Hero
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Forgetful
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Anti-Hero
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Bad Faith
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Lying to yourself and believing it
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Excepting the _______ is excepting defeat
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The Look
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Science Fiction
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Machine and Futuristic
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Occurs in Pain or Horror
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Black Humor
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Folly
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Black Humor
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Skeptical Irony
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Black Irony
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Written from a distance
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Black Irony
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Always written in Existentialism
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Modernism
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Experimental "stream of conscieceness"
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Modernism
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Pervasively Ironic
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Modernism
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Symbolisitc
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Modernism
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Psychological
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Modernism
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Mythic
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Modernism
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Middle class against Capitalism
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Modernism
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Self-Reflexive about itself
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Modernism
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Emphasizes imagination as realized in dreams presented w/o conscious control
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Surrealism
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Displacement
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Repressing an urge and redirecting it Frued
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Condensation
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Disguises and urge by condensing and using symbols to hide it
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Symbolization
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The repressed urge played out in a symbolic act
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Avoid pain seek pleasure, all pleasure, and no morality
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Id
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Rational Decisions, partially conscious, no morality
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Ego
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Considers right or wrong, Conscience
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Superego
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Atwood
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Death by Landscape
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Death by Landscape
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Lucy dies & Lois lives
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Bradbury
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The Veldt
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The Veldt
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Science Fiction, the machine
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Cheever
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The Enormous Radio
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The Enormous Radio
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high emotion Science Fiction, and Ironic
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Ellison
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King of the Bingo Game
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King of the Bingo Game
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Extentialism
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Updike
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A&P
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A&P
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Romanticism
Bad Faith Boy quits job |
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O' Connor
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Everything that rises must converge
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Everything that rises must converge
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Mother is racist, son is not
Romanticism and Bad Faith |
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Thurber
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
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Chopin
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The Story of an Hour
Thinks Husband is Dead |
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Carver
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The Student's Wife
Strange Dream |
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L'heureux
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Brief lives in California
Girl goes to college |
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Cortazar
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A Continuity of Parks
Green chair |
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O'Connor
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A good man is hard to find
The Misfit |
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Jackson
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The Lottery
Killing a woman |
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Carver
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Cathedral
Blind Man |
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Dubus
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The Intruder
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Nabakov
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Signs and Symbols
Boy in Mental Hospital |
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Conrad
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Heart of Darkness
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Kafka
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The Metamophosis
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carries Shears and cuts the thread of life
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Atropos
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carries spindle and spins the thread of life
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Clotho
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carries the scroll and determines the length of the thread of life
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Lachesis
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The Freytag Pyramid
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Exposition or Introduction
Complication and Development Crisis or Climax Falling Action Resolution |
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Point of View
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Events told as they appear to one or more observers
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Tension
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emotional and intellectual force generated by disparate potentials
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Novella
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b/w short story and novel
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Description
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passages devoted to a presentation of the appearance of characters or the setting
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Pace
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Speed at which writers develop any given part of a story
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Illusion
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Sensory experiences can only be evoked by language; they cannot be duplicated. Gives illusion one is morally emotionally involved
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Unity
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Shape and Consistency of a story, harmonized
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Pattern
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Metaphorical and ambiguous term, generally to refer to changes in position of characters
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Resolution
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point in story at which the conflict is decided one way or another and the struggle is concluded
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Plot
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Phase of action in a story that are linked together by a chain of causal relationships
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Indirection
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lack of straightforwardness and openness
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Distance
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Metaphorical and ambiguous, distinction authors preserve b/w themselves and central characters
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Coherence
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Consistency of various parts of a story
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Convention
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established by earlier and repeated usage as part of the way in which language represents experience
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Theme
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Unifying point or meaning of a story
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Paradox
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Statement that is contradictory or inconsistent with common sense-thought it may be true
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Moral
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Lesson to be drawn from the outcome of the action
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immediacy
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effect or illusion of sharing the characters' experience.
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Mood
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Prevailing feeling of a story generated by language
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Tone
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encompasses the attitudes toward the subject and toward the audience implied in a literary work
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