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Semicolon   used instead of a period to connect two independent clauses or in complex lists  
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phrase   has no subject and verb  
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clause   has subject and verb  
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clause with the word that   noun clause  
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subordinating words   also, while, as, if, when, because, that  
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adverbial phrase   uses when or how  
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participial phrase   EX. LOOKING AT THE LATEST ISSUE OF COSMO, the man who always sits in the back of the bus began to hum to himself a song from a strip tease act.  
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signified   concept  
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signifier   sound image  
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sign   combination of signifier and signified or concept and sound image  
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why language is only made of negatives   all words say is that this thing is not everything else  
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parole   individual utterances  
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old english   450-1150 based on old low German, slows down english's evolution  
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middle english   1150-1500 based on French  
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modern english   1500 on based on Latin  
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purpose of language   communication exertion of power  
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Romantic poetry years   1770-1850  
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reaction to   rationalism, objectivity, the enlightenment  
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themes of romantic poetry   nature, remembered childhood, unrequited love, individualism, self fulfillment, growth through expierience, libery/freedom, exotic  
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first generation poets   William Blake, Robert Burns, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge  
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manerism   after figuring out how something was done the first time, copies it  
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second generation poets   Lord Gordon, George Byron, John Keats, Percy Byssle Shelley  
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revenge tragedy   roots in seneca, has exaggerated rhetoric, bloodthirsty details, ghosts and magic, thyests  
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Arristotle's tragedy   anagorisis, perapetia, inspires fear and pity, switch from good to bad, no double plot, complex plot  
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