Literature Part II - Assessment
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| show | Alliteration
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| The repetition of two or more vowel sounds in successive words, which creates a rhyme. | show 🗑
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| The literal, dictionary meaning of a word. | show 🗑
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| show | Connotation
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| A long narrative poem usually composed in an elevated style tracing the adventures of a legendary or mythic hero. The are usually written in a constant form and meter throughout. | show 🗑
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| show | Epiphany
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| A conventional combination of literary form and subject matter, usually aimed at creating certain effects. A genre implies a preexisting and understanding between the artist and the reader about the purpose and rules of the work. | show 🗑
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| A short poem expressing the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker. Often written in the first person. | show 🗑
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| An extended sppech by a single character. | show 🗑
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| show | Motif
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| What a character in a story or drama wants. The reasons an author provides for a characters actions. | show 🗑
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| show | Narrative
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| A literary device that attempts to represent a thing or actions by the word that imitates the sound associated with it. | show 🗑
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| show | Persona
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| show | Setting
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| An extended work of fictional prose narrative. The term novel usually implies a book-length narrative. Usually has more characters, more varied scenes, and a broader coverage of time then a short story. | show 🗑
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| Refers to any literary work that - although it might factual information - is not bound by factual accuracy, but creates a narrative shaped or made up by the author's imagination. | show 🗑
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| Must be true and factual. | show 🗑
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| show | Apprenticeship Novel
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| show | Epistolary Novel
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| In modern terms, a prose narrative longer than a short story but shorter than a novel. Long enough to be published independently as a brief book. | show 🗑
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| show | Picaresque Novel
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| show | Subplot
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| The opening portion of a narrative or drama; the scene is set, the proteagonist in introduced, and the author discloses any other background information necessary to allow the reader to understand and relate to the events that are to follow. | show 🗑
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| show | Conflict
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| Conflict between two forms of like beings. | show 🗑
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| Conflict between a character and a force of nature. | show 🗑
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| show | Man Vs. Society
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| show | Man Vs. Self
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| show | Recognition
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| show | Foreshadowing
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| The part of a play or narrative, including the exposition, in which events start moving towards a climax. | show 🗑
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| show | Crisis
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| show | Climax
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| show | Falling Action
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| show | Denouement
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| show | Protagonist
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| show | Antagonist
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| The central character in a narrative. | show 🗑
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| show | Antihero
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| show | Stock Character
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| Describes a character with only one outstanding trait, rarely the central characters in a narrative and they stay the same throughout the story. | show 🗑
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| A complex character who is presented in depth and detail in a narrative; those who change significantly during the course of the narrative. | show 🗑
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| show | First Person
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| Tells a story without describing any character's throughs, emotions, fellings; it gives an objective and unbiased point of view. | show 🗑
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| show | Third Person Limited
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| Tale told from the point of view of a storyteller who has no part in the sotry but knows all the facts, including character thoughts and fellings. | show 🗑
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| show | Verbal Irony
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| show | Irony of Situation
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| A special kind of suspenseful expectation, when the audience or reader understands the implication and meaning of a situation onstage and foresees the oncoming disaster or triumph but the character does not. | show 🗑
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| A direct address to someone or something, used to address an inanimate object, a dead or absent person, an abstract thing, or a spirit. | show 🗑
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| A poetic device using eleborate comparisions, such as equating a loved one with the graces and beauties of the world. | show 🗑
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| show | Hyperbole
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| show | Metaphor
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| Firgure of speech in which the name of a thing is substitued for that of another closely associated with it. | show 🗑
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| A statement that at first strikes one as self-contradictory, but that on reflection reveals some deeper sense; often achieved through a play on words. | show 🗑
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| show | Personification
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| show | Simile
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| show | Synecdoche
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| A figure of speech in which the poet attributes some characteristic of a thing to another thing closely associated with it. | show 🗑
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| show | Understatement
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| show | Diction
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| show | Tone/Mood
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| show | Symbolism
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| A generally recurring subject or idea conspicuously evident in a literary work, only central subjects. | show 🗑
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| The coolective set of images in a poem or other literary work. | show 🗑
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| A narrative in a verse or prose in which the literal events consistently point to a parallel sequence of symbolic ideas. | show 🗑
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| show | Allusion
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| show | Aside
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| Any established feature or technique in literature that is commonly understood by both authors and readers. | show 🗑
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| show | Dialogue
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| show | Deus ex Machina
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| A scene relived in a character's memory. | show 🗑
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| In plot construction, the technique of arranging events and information in such a way that later events are prepared for, or shadowed, beforehand. | show 🗑
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| show | In Media Res
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| Witty language used to convey insults or scorn. | show 🗑
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| show | Solilquy
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| A traditional and widely used verse form, especially popular for love poetry. Has a fixed form of 14 lines. | show 🗑
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| show | Quotation
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| show | Censorship
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| A restatement in your own words of the main idea in a source. Summary is used to convey the general meaning of the ideas in a source, without specific details or examples that may appear in the original. | show 🗑
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| show | Paraphrase
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| show | Defamation
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| show | Libel
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| show | Slander
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| show | Propaganda
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| show | Ballad
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| A poetic device using elaborate comparisions, such as equating a loved one with the graces and beauties of the world. | show 🗑
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| Word choice or vocabulary, refers to the class of words that an author decides is appropriate to use in a particular work. | show 🗑
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| A long narrative poem usually composed in an elevated style tracing the adventure of a legendary or mythic hero. | show 🗑
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| The unit of measurement in metrical poetry. | show 🗑
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| show | Monometer
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| A verse meter consisting of two metrical feet, or two primary stresses per line. | show 🗑
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| A verse meter consisting of three metrical feet, or three primary stresses, per line. | show 🗑
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| show | Tetrameter
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| show | Pentameter
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| show | Hexameter
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| A verse meter consisting of eight metrical feet, or eight primary stresses, per line. | show 🗑
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| show | Form
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| The most common and well-known meter of unrhymed poetry in English. | show 🗑
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| show | Free Verse
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| show | Haiku
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| show | Limerick
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| show | Sonnet
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| show | Epigram
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| A short lyric form of eight rhymed lines borrowed from the French. | show 🗑
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| A fixed form developed by French courtly poets of the Middle Ages in imitation of Italian folk song. | show 🗑
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| A complex verse form in which sex end words are repeated in prescribed order through six stanzas. | show 🗑
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| The collective set of images in a poem or other literary work. | show 🗑
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| Rhyme that occurs within a line of poetry, as opposed to end rhyme. | show 🗑
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| A short poem expressing the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker. | show 🗑
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| A recurrent, regular, rhythmic, pattern in verse. | show 🗑
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| show | Iambic Meter
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| A metrical foot in verse in which an unaccented syllable is followed by an accented one. | show 🗑
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| A metrical foot in which a stressed syllable is followed by a unstressed syllable. | show 🗑
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| show | Anapestic
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| A metrical foot of verse in which one stressed syllable is followed by two unstressed syllables. | show 🗑
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| show | Monologue
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| show | Narrative Poetry
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| show | Rhyme Scheme
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| A full rhyme in which the sounds following the initial letters of the words are identical in sounds. | show 🗑
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| show | Slant Rhyme
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| show | End Rhyme
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| A practice used to describe rhythmic patterns in a poem by separating the metrical feet, counting the syllables, marking the accents, and indicating the pauses. | show 🗑
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| show | Syllabic Verse
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| A sonnet following rhyme pattern for the eight lines, the final six lines may follow any pattern of rhymes, as long as it does not end in a couplet. | show 🗑
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| show | English (Shakespearean)
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| show | Stanza
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| A two-line stanza in poetry, usually rhymed, which tends to have lines of equal length. | show 🗑
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| show | Tercet
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| show | Quatrain
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| show | Octave.
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| show | Stress
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| Any single line of poetry; a composition in lines of more or less regular rhythm. | show 🗑
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| show | Style
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| A literary device in which a discrepancy of meaning is masked beneath the surface of the language. Irony is present when a writer says one thing but means something quite the opposite. | show 🗑
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| A voice or character that provides the reader with information and insight about the characters and incidents in a narrative. | show 🗑
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| show | Plot
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| show | Nonfiction Novel
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| show | Fable
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| show | Parable
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| show | Tale
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| A prose narrative too brief to be published in a separate volume - as novellas and novels frequently are. | show 🗑
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| show | Characterization
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| A paraphrasable message or lesson implied or directly stated in a literary work. | show 🗑
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| In drama, the scene is a division of the action in an act of the play. | show 🗑
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| A literary work aimed at amusing an audience. | show 🗑
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| Incongruous imitation of either the style or subject matter of a serious genre, humorous due to the disparity between the treatment and the subject. | show 🗑
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| show | Comedy of Manners
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| show | Commedia
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| show | Farce
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| show | High Comedy
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| show | Low Comedy
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| A form of comic drama in which the plot focuses on one or more pairs of lovers who overcome difficulties to achieve a happy ending. | show 🗑
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| show | Slapstick Comedy
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| A genre using derisive humor to ridicule human weakness and folly or attack political injustices and incompetence. | show 🗑
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| show | Tragedy
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| show | Tragicomedy
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| Originally a stage play featuring background music and sometimes songs to underscore the emotional mood of each scene. | show 🗑
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| show | Suspense
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| show | Character
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| In classical Greek theater architecture, "the place for dancing," a circular, level performance space at the base of a horseshoe-shaped amphitheater, where twelve, then later fifteen, young, masked, male chorus members sang and danced. | show 🗑
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| In classical Greek staging of the fifth century B.C., the temporary wooden stage building in which actors changed masks and costumes when changing roles. | show 🗑
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| Separating the auditorium from the raised stage and the world of the play, the architectural picture frame or gateway in traditional European theatres from the sixteenth-century on. | show 🗑
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| show | Trabadours
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| show | Villanelle
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| show | Commedia Dell'arte
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| A short secular song for three or more voices arranged in counterpoint. | show 🗑
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| A modern, nontraditional performance space in which the audience surrounds the stage on four sides. | show 🗑
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| Post World War II European genre depicting the grotesquely comic plight of human beings throw by accident into an irrational and meaningless world. | show 🗑
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| The term has two related meanings. First, it originally referred to the greatest period of Roman literature under the Emperor Augustus. Second, it refers to the early eighteenth century in English literature, a neoclassical period. | show 🗑
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| The tradition within a culture that transmits narratives by word of mouth from one generation to another. | show 🗑
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| show | Pantomime
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| Anglicisized as peripety, Greek for "sudden change." Reversal of fortune. | show 🗑
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| In Renaissance theater, a mimed dramatic performance whose purpose is to prepare the audience for the main action of the play to follow. | show 🗑
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| A type of contemporary narrative in which the magical and mundane are mixed in an overall context of realistic storytelling. | show 🗑
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| Aeschylus | show 🗑
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| show | Medea
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| show | Odyssey
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| Virgil | show 🗑
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| show | Metamorphose
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| show | The Odes
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| Sappho | show 🗑
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| show | Lysistrata
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| show | Antigone
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| Geoffrey Chaucer | show 🗑
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| show | Alexiad
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| William Langland | show 🗑
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| show | Le Morte d'Arthur
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| Margery Kempe | show 🗑
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| show | Vox Clementis
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| show | The Book of Good Love
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| Lady Mary Wroth | show 🗑
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| Sir Phillip Sydney | show 🗑
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| John Donne | show 🗑
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| Michael Drayton | show 🗑
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| show | To Celia
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| show | The Faerie Queene
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| show | Paradise Lost
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| show | Romeo and Juliet
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| show | Dr. Faustus
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| John Gay | show 🗑
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| Anne Bradstreet | show 🗑
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| show | Gulliver's Travels
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| Thomas Gray | show 🗑
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| Daniel Defoe | show 🗑
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| show | To The Virgins, To Make
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| Henry Fielding | show 🗑
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| show | The Rape Of The Lock
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| John Dryden | show 🗑
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| show | The Way Of The World
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| Herman Melville | show 🗑
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| Mary Shelley | show 🗑
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| show | Jane Eyre
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| show | The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
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| Thomas Hardy | show 🗑
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| Charles Dickens | show 🗑
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| John Keats | show 🗑
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| show | Middlemarch
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| Mark Twain | show 🗑
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| show | Leaves of Grass
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| show | Because I could Nop Stop For Death
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| show | The Awakening
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| show | Pride and Prejudice
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| show | The Cantos
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| Virginia Wolfe | show 🗑
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| show | The Color Purple
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| show | The Catcher In The Rye
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| James Joyce | show 🗑
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| William Faulkner | show 🗑
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| E.E. Cummings | show 🗑
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| show | The Love Song of J. Alfred Pruforck
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| Anne Sexton | show 🗑
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| show | The Bell Jar
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| William Butler Yeats | show 🗑
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| Langston Hughes | show 🗑
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| show | The Grapes Of Wrath
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| Authur Miller | show 🗑
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| F. Scott Fitzgerald | show 🗑
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| show | A Farewell to Arms
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| Robert Frost | show 🗑
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| show | Anthem For Doomed
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| Kurt Vonnegut | show 🗑
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| show | Beloved
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| Norman Mailer | show 🗑
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| show | Literary Theory
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| show | Formalist Criticism
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| show | Close Reading
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| show | Biographical Criticism
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| show | Biography
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| show | Psycholoigcal Criticism
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| show | Mythological Criticism
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| show | Archetype
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| show | Sociological Criticism
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| Gender criticism examines how sexual identity influences the creation, interpretation, and evaluation of literary works. | show 🗑
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| show | Reader-Response Criticism
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| A school of criticism that rejects that traditional assumption that language can accurately represent reality. | show 🗑
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| A contemporary interdisciplinary field of academic study that focuses on understanding the social power encoded in "texts." | show 🗑
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