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13 Cards in this Set
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Describe the Puritan Age
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16th & 17th century. known for purity, hard working, good work ethic, simplistic (The Crucible by Arthur Miller)
religious text and bibles |
religious text and bibles
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Describe the Age of Reason
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1750-1800
The use of reason opposed to faith alone. ex) ben franklin, thomas jefferson |
pamphlets, autobiographies, essays, speeches, and documents
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Describe Romanticism
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18th and 19th century
gothic = dark and gloomy transcendentalism = stressed individualism and focused on intuition |
poems, short stories, novels
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Describe Realism
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1865-1915 social classes defined people, violence, survival, nature as force
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historical text, short stories, and novels
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define: satire
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witty language used to convey a point
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define: allusion
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a reference to something or someone
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define: paradox
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a statements that contradicts itself
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He has the cutest little big toe
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define: omniscient
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having total knowledge
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protagonist
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we are cheering them on
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antagonist
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bad guy
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Verisimilitude
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the appearance of truth
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Metaphor
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comparing using is or was
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the toy is red
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Farce
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extremely funny
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