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13 Cards in this Set
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Who wrote "Oliver Twist"?
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Charles Dickens
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Who wrote "The Light of the World"?
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Derek Walcott
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Who wrote "Araby"?
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James Joyce
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Who wrote "God's Grandeur", "As kingfishers catch fire", or "The Windhover"?
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Gerard Hopkins
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Bourgeoisie
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The Ruling Merchant Class of Great Britian.
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Uncanny
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The unhomely. Something that is so familiar that it is unfamiliar.
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Utilitarianism
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A way of government that believes, "The greatest good for the greatest amount of people". Ideology that thinks of people as numbers, percentages.
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Epiphany
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A sudden realization of something significant. A divine realization.
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Thresholds
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The crossing between here and there. The difference between the norm and the other.
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Diaspora
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Dispersal of people.
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Modernism
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An era of writing in which lack of conclusions, displaying of The Other, and search of Identity are themes.
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Mimesis
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Realism; lifelike. In relation to literature, the character/storyline is relatable to the reader, believable.
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Contingency
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Infinite of Options.
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