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33 Cards in this Set
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What is an Allegory?
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A Written piece in which ideas or morals are represented by individiual characters or things.
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What is an Allusion?
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A reference within an artisitic work to another artisitic work.
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What is an Antagonist?
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In a literary work, the character whose actions oppose that of the hero (protagonist).
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What is a Ballad?
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A story-poem, often sung aloud.
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What was the Beat Movement?
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A group of American poets and artists whose expressions of alienation in the 1950's became a calling card of the underground.
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What is a blank verse?
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Non-rhyming verse consisting of 10-syllable lines.
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What is a canto?
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A subdivision of an epic poem.
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Define Classicism.
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Artistic or literary movement which is essentially based on the Ancient Greeks or Romans.
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What is the Climax of a story?
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The point in any story when the action reaches its zenith.
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What is a Couplet?
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Two rhyming lines of poetry in succession, most often of a similar or like meter.
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What is an denouement?
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The conclusion or resolution following the climax of a story.
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What is an Elegy?
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A poem of rememberence.
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What is Existentialism?
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French philisophical idea that acknowledges that the individual lives in an indifferent world and must take responsibility for one's own choices.
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What is a fable?
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An allegorical story often employing animals as characters.
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What does genre mean?
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A category of work within art or letters, usually of a distinctive style.
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What is a Haiku?
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A Japanese poem containing three lines and 17 syllables in a structured order (five-seven-five).
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What does irony mean?
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A literary style in which a situation is shown with the intent of representing its opposite.
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What was the Lost Generation?
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A group of expatriate writers and artist in Paris in the 1920's centered around Gertrude Stein.
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What is a metaphor?
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The comparision of two things in which one item represents another.
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What is Modernism?
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High intellectual movement whose goal was the examination of pure art.
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What is a motif?
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A recurring element or theme in an artistic work.
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What is an Ode?
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A lyric poem of rigidly structured stanzas.
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What is a parable?
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A story depicting a message of a moral or religious nature.
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What does pathos mean?
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Evoking pity in a literary work.
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What is Realism?
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An artistic and literary style in which society and events are depicted as they appear in real life.
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What was the period of Restoration?
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The period of intensely active literary and artistic activity in England between 1660-1688 when Charles II returned to the throne.
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What was the Romantic Movement?
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Predominately English movement in the 19th century whose basic belief was that passion should supercede logic and whose main opposite was Classicism.
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What is a satire?
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A literary work in which, through the use of irony, sarcasm and wit, the absurd in humanity is brought to light.
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What is a sonnet?
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A verse of 14 lines and written in one of several rhyme schemes.
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What is a stanza?
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One division within a poem, usually of commonly metered verse.
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What is Stream of Consciousness?
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A literary device in which a character;s thoughts emerge on the page as they occur.
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What is Transcendentalism?
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American movement in which insight and experience took precedence over logic and reason and which held the belief that all things coexist in nature.
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What was the Victorian Age?
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Nineteeth-century England, considered the highest of the British industrial revolution and the apex of the British Empire. Characterized by rigid social manners and conservativism.
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