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36 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
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Everyday Use
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contract of expectations
redundancy |
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the Boat
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emphasis
past tense |
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a Rose for Emily
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ordering (out of order)
gothic |
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Yellow Wallpaper
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gothic
madness (main character) |
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A Clean Well-Lighted Place
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minimalism
diction |
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Araby
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quest
epiphany (stupid quest) irony |
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Cages
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symbolism (cage)
imagery connotation |
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The Resplendent Quetzel
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point of view (both or none)
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Borders
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liminality (between 2 thresholds)
stereotypes (natives) humour |
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Squatter
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symbolism (squatting)
identity |
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Age of Innocence
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novel of manners
historical fiction |
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King Lear
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language
natural vs unnatural disguise |
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When Mr. Pirzada came to Dine
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child's memory
ritual (candy) |
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Waiting for Godot
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expectations
intertextuality repetition (same day twice) allegory |
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Do not Go Gentle into that Good night
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villanelle
iambic pentameter written for author's dying father |
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Daddy
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free verse
repetition jewish holocaust dead dad |
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The Road not Taken
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iambic tetrameter
ABAAB advice to take the road less taken |
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My Last Duchess
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rhyming pentameter
enjambment trying to find a new wife |
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
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dramatic monologue
seems to be proclaiming love |
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Digging
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free verse
dactylic tetrameter at places writer distracted by gardening |
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Dolce et Decorum Est
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pentameter
change in rhyming pattern World War 2 |
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My Papa's Waltz
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father's abuse
iambic trimeter ABAB rhyme scheme waltz |
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Sestina
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retrograde cross
circular sad grandmother and almanac |
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At the Fishhouses
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iambic pentameter
sketching old man |
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The Moose
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bus journey through Nova Scotia
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the Emperor of Ice Cream
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funeral
enjambment irony free verse |
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But What do you think?
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enjambment
runon free verse |
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the Lamb
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religious
hymn like AABB trochaic trimeter |
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the Tyger
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about creation of tiger
trochaic tetrameter |
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the Sick Rose
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worm destroys sick rose
anapestic dimeter |
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One's self i sing
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anapestic
equality |
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A Supermarket in California
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allusion
addressing Whitman free verse |
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In-Just
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spring has sprung
all over the place free verse waltz |
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next to of course god america i
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petrarachan sonnet
anti-patriotism |
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the Weary Blues
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recounting of sad piano player
free verse |
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the Red Wheelbarrow
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short
red wheelbarrow enjambment |
