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30 Cards in this Set
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Bildungsroman |
A novel of maturity/education |
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Modernism |
Claims to have achieved more accurate representation of reality/ human conscious |
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Surrealism |
Rejection of reason/ logic. Dream like reality |
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Realism |
Contrasts idealism. Represents familiar things as they are |
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Idealism |
Very unrealistic, perfect world |
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Romanticism |
Intense emotion |
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Naturalism |
Extreme of realism |
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Picaresque |
Adventures of a rogue |
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Satire |
Sophisticated sarcasm |
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Catharsis |
Purgation of emotions, especially pity/fear, through art or extreme change in emotion. |
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B.C. |
Before Christ |
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A.D. |
Ano Domino |
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B.C.E. |
Before Common Era |
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C.E. |
Common Era |
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En Medias Res |
Latin: In the middle of things |
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Epic form |
Hero, comradeship, vast setting, gods |
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Proem |
Opening theme |
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Dactylic Hexameter |
Meter of Illiad |
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Aristeia |
Scene when a hero has his finest moment |
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Illiad |
Homer Epic poem |
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Song of Roland |
Anonymous Epic Poem |
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All Quiet on the Western Front |
Erich Remarque |
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich |
Leo Tolstoy Realism |
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Poetry |
Emily Dickinson Romanticism Slant or near rhyme |
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Hedda Gabler |
Henrik Ibsen Realism |
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Candide |
Voltaire Satire |
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Medea |
Euripides Play |
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101 Nights |
Collection of middle eastern and south Asian stories |
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Things Fall Apart |
Achebe Play |
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Merchant of Venice |
Shakespeare Play |
