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34 Cards in this Set
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"Thanatopsis" |
William cullen Bryant |
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"To a waterfowl" |
William cullen Bryant |
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"The devil and Tom walker" |
Washington Irving |
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"The prairie" |
James fenimore Cooper |
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"Leatherstocking tales" |
James fenimore Cooper |
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"The oval portrait" |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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"The raven" |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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"The spy" |
James fenimore Cooper |
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2 main literary groups in this time |
Knickerbockers and Bread And Cheese Club |
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Who was in knickerbockers |
Irving and Bryant |
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Who was in bread and cheese club |
Cooper |
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3 focuses of literature from American romantic period |
Imagination, nature, and mystery |
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Who focused on imagination |
Irving and Cooper |
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Who focused on nature |
Bryant |
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Who focused on mystery |
Poe |
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Alteration |
Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words |
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Allison |
A reference to something assumed known |
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Archaic language |
Language no longer used |
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Assonance |
Repetition of vowel sounds |
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Blank verse |
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter |
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Characterization |
The way an author reveals the personality of a character |
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Consonance |
Repetition of consonant sounds within words |
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Folk tale |
Stories handed down orally among common people of a particular culture. They usually teach a lesson or express a truth about life |
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Frame story |
A story within a story |
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Irony |
When what happens is different then what the reader expects |
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Motivation |
The reason behind a person's words or actions |
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Personification |
Giving human traits to non human things |
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Quatrain |
4 line stanza |
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Satire |
Writing that ridicules or criticizes something |
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Setting |
Time and place of literary work |
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Stock character |
Stereotypical characters |
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Theme |
Overall idea of story |
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Tone |
Author's attitude towards subject and audience |
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Apostrophe |
A figure of speech where the speaker addresses, directly, an absent person or personified object or idea. |