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Dynamic Character

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someone who undergoes change due to the plot

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Static Character

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the characters who not effected by the way the story progresses

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Round Character

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the author tell more to the person as the plot moves forward

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Flat Character

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the author states no more than asked for because they aren't as important to the plot

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Stock Character

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a fictional character based on stereotypes

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Protagonist

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the main character

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Antagonist

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a person who is opposing the main character

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Foil Character

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a character that contrasts with another character mainly being the protagonist

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Archetype

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a typical character showing a universally accepted pattern such as the form of a mother

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Social Milieu

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the thinking at the time of the story creating the atmosphere of the people in it

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First Person

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when the narration is using I, me, we, us, our

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Second Person

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when the narration is in the form of you

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Third Person

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when the narration is using he, she, it , they

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Present Tense

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it means the story it happening right now as we read

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Past Tense

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its when the story has already happened

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Future Tense

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the story will be happening

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Analepsis

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the flashback of what has already happened

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Prolepsis

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the prediction of what may happen

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Axes of Knowledge

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whether the story's character and or narrator is omniscient or limited to it knowledge

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Limited Knowledge

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the narrator only knows within the story and tell it without emotion

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Omniscient Knowledge

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the narrator intervenes with his or her opinion and knows about think that aren't just openly stated in the text

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Perpective

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viewpoint or opinion an author expresses about the subject

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Subjective

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about the subject and only about the subject even to the very last detail

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Objective

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about the subject in a vague or normal way not down to the point

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Linear Narration

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when the story progresses chronologically

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Non-Linear Narration

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when the story is all over the place jumping from one moment to the next yet not in order

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Authorial "Slips"

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the author occasionally intervenes with their opinion on the subject of the story this happens with parentheses

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Narrational "Slips"

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when the narration intervene in and out of the character's conscientiousness

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Exposition

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the author's way of giving background information like the setting and character details

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Inciting Conflict

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an incident that triggers problems to arise mainly dealing with the antagonist and could bring up the theme in the story

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Rising Action

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a related series of events in the literary plot that build towards the point of greatest interest(climax)

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Climax

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the most intense or exciting point in the story, a culmination or apex

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Epiphany

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the moment or event in which a character achieves a spiritual insight into life or into her or his own circumstances.

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Falling Action

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parts after the climax leading up the the ending resolution

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Denouncement/Resolution

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the ending of a gripping story that is dreaded, discussed, and anticipated all at the same time

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Conventional Resolution

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it ends with a gradually ending

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Crescendo Resolution

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it just happen to end that way with a big bam in the face

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Time

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it is when the story is set, era, and the events around it

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Place

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where the story is taking place

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Realistic

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places and times that actually happen

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Magic Realist

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is real in all ways but has the magical elements added to it

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Surrealist

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the literature has a fantastic imagery and odd combinations of a subject matter; having an oddly dreamlike or unreal quality

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Tone

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the general character or attitude of a place, situation, or a piece of writing

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Mood

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a temporary state of mind or feeling (going back to social milieu and climate)

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Topic

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the matter that is being dealt with in the text

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Subject

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the person that is being discussed

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Allegory

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speech with a moral behind it

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Alliteration

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multiple words in a sentence having the same first consonant sound occurring close together

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Allusion

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an expression designed to call something on mind without mentioning it explicitly

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Anaphora

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the deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence

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Assonance

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two or more words repeating the same vowel sound

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Connotation

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a meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly

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Consonance

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the repetition of the same consonant sound in two or more words

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Denotation

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generally defined as literal or dictionary meaning of a word in contrast of its connotative or associated meanings

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Foreshadowing

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the writer giving the reader hints of what is to come in the story

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Hyperbole

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exaggeration of what is really going on, for the sake of emphasis

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In Medias Res

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going into the middle of things without a introduction by the narrator

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Irony

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words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different form the actual one

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Juxtaposition

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when two or more ideas, stories, or characters are placed side by side in a narrative for comparing and contrasting

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Metaphor

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a comparison that is implicite and does not use "like" or "as"

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Onomatopoeia

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the use of words that sound like what they mean ex. boom, clap

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Oxymoron

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words compressed together even when they are contradictory ex. pretty ugly

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Paradox

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a statement that seems to contradict itself yet it is rationally meaningful

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Personification

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the attribution of human qualities to a nonhuman or an inanimate object

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Pun

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a play on words ex. I did write for a while in spite of them

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Rhetoric

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the are of effective communicative, persuasive discourse, focuses on interrelationship of invention, argument, and style

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Simile

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a comparison using "like" or "as"

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Symbol

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something that portrays an emotion or give a moral

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Understatement

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the opposite of exaggeration, technique develops sarcasm and/ or irony where the author writes less than intended

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Southern Gothic

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sub-genre that relies on supernatural, ironic, or unusual events to guide the plot; these tools are used to explore social issues and reveal the cultural character of the American South

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Feminist

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investigates the literary work either tends to serve or to challenge a patriarchal view of society. how the text amplifies or views the important insight about sex roles and society's structure. usually defines women as other or as an object

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Modernist

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an artist who rejected enlightenment thinking and tried to reshape, and improve on the surrounding world. It developed partly in response to WWI in that it stands out against technology., This group of people supported Darwinism and they refused to accept the bible as history or science.

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Character

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A person or an animal in a story, a play, or another literary work.

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Narration

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a method of informing that explains something by recounting events

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Plot

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a series of related events in a story, each connected to the next.

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Setting

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the context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs.

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Theme

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a topic of discussion or writing; a major idea broad enough to cover the entire scope of a literary work.

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The Story of An Hour

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Kate Chopin. About Mrs. Mallard's reaction to the sudden death of her husband. Dies when she finds out he's alive.

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The Yellow Wallpaper

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The rest cure for a woman who has a nervous disorder. Her isolation drives her into a deeper insanity. Ist person narrative, she writes journal entries. This demonstrates her mental state and time passing. The reader can view her inner thoughts and dialouge, and without medical facts, the reader must decide how insane she is. She is facinated, and later obssesed with the yellow wallpaper, which she belives is filled with a creeping woman. She sees creeping women outside. The story ends with her tearing the wall paper and sliding along the edges of the room.

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A Worn Path

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Eudora Welty; Phoenix, grandson, nurses, hunter; An elderly woman goes to town to get her grandson some medicine for his problem. She feels like she is held back. Gets stopped by hunter who drops a coin. Gets another coin at hospital after she gets the medicine then buys grandson a toy. After that she begins her journey back home.

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A & P

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John Updike; Sammy works at a grocery store and sees 3 girls walking in with their bathing suits on. Queene and her 2 friends. the manager (Lengel) kicks the girls out. Sammie ends up quitting his job trying to impress the girls but ends up thinking about his future.

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Hills Like White Elephants

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Ernest Hemingway, Is another story about a couple who question having a abortion. The main theme is the setting.

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A Very Short Story

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Ernest Hemingway, an italien nurse has an affair with a patient when she has someone in America who she is already in a relationship with. Both people in that relationship are having affairs with different people but will not tell one another. In the end the wedding that was suppose to happen does not take place.

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A Rose for Emily

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William Faulkner, in this short story tells of the death of the titular woman who refuses to pay her taxes because Colonel Sartoris told her years earlier that she would not have to. At the end of the story after the funeral the townspeople find the dead body of her lover in the house.

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Girl

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Jamaica Kincaid; Not an ordinary story format, essentially just a list of suggestions/commands by a motherly figure to a young girl, trying to shape her into a respectable young woman.

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This Is What It Means To Say Phoenix Arizona

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Sherman Alexie; father dies of a heart attack so victor has to go to Phoenix to get his body. Because he doesn't have enough money, Thomas lends him the money and goes along with him. They tell stories about his father and Victor accepts his fathers leaving and thomas

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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

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Sherman Alexie; In this title story, Victor leaves the reservation to live in Seattle with his white girlfriend, who plays out the role of the Lone Ranger to Victor's Tonto.He enjoys making the 7/11 guy nervous but orders a creamsicle. He didn't fit the profile of the neighborhood or the country. When the relationship sours, Victor returns to the reservation, stops drinking and finds a job answering phones for a high school exchange program. Eventually his girlfriend calls him.

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Barbie Q

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Sandra Cisneros; different barbies, get new ones but they are flawed, not perfect, still good all the same, walking through a flee market with two little girls

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A Continuity of Parks

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Julio Cortázar; It is a story of a man reading a book about what his life is and in that book there is a man who is doing the same of what he is doing

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The Circular Ruins

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Jorge Luis Borges; a wizard dreams up a son, but later realizes he is a dream himself

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Ordeal by Cheque

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Wuther Crue; a series of checks issued through the 27/28 years of Lawrence Exeter Jr. life from his birth all the way to his divorce and death. His father paid for him up until he was 22/23 when he graduated college. Junior started to issue the cheques and did it through his wedding plans, affairs, and even to an attorney of law supposedly for his divorce and then later his father comes back into play when he has to sign the cheque for the hospital. Later when he has to issue a cheque to the doctor who delivered Junior, he signs his name senior and then crosses it out. Making the reader assume that the junior who was another one of him died, leading to there was no need anymore to have a senior attached to his name.

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Postcolonial

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Referring to interactions between European nations and the societies they colonized (mainly after 1800); more generally, "postcolonial" may be used to signify a position against imperialism and Eurocentrism.

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Dialogic

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conversation in which people speak in a manner that makes others want to listen, and listen in a way that makes others want to speak

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Stream-of-consciousness

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A narrative technique that places the reader in the mind and thought process of the narrator, no matter how random and spontaneous that may be.

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Asyndeton

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Commas used (with no conjunction) to separate a series of words, speeds up flow of sentence. X, Y, Z as opposed to X, Y, and Z.

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Epistrophe

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A scheme in which the same word is repeated at the end of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences. Example: "I believe we should fight for justice. You believe we should fight for justice. How can we not, then, fight for justice?"

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Homophone

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One of two or more words pronounced alike but different in meaning or derivation or spelling

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Homonym

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A word spelled exactly like another word, but having a different meaning

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Intertextuality

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Interconnectedness among pieces of literature that have common reference to allusion, quotations, genre, or style

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Polysyndeton

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Deliberate use of many conjunctions in close succession, especially where some might be omitted. Hemingway and the Bible both use extensively. Ex. "he ran and jumped and laughed for joy"

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Red Herring

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An argument that distracts the reader by raising issues irrelevant to the case. It is like being given too many suspects in a murder mystery.

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Zoomorphism

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the attribution of animal forms or qualities to a god

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Ice Burg Theory

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hard facts/ supported a structure that is bigger, that you don't see. 7/8 of the real deal is untold, a style used by Hemingway

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John Updike

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A "new-realist" celebrated for the precision of his style and the painterly way he recreates his fictional worlds. His stories convey his vision of middle America and of the middle class holding onto its style of life while at the same time trying to adjust its mind to new ideas and new social realities. His best works include Rabbit Run and Couples. Wrote A&P in 1961.

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Kate Chopin

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She was a southern writer. She explored the oppressive components of traditional marriage. She wrote a book called, "The Awakening," which received a lot of public abuse. The book described a young wife and mother who left her family for personal fulfillment. The book also talked about adultery, suicide, and women's aspirations. Wrote "The Story of an Hour" in 1894

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Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

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A prominent American sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform. She was a utopian feminist during a time when her accomplishments were exceptional for women, and she served as a role model for future generations of feminists because of her unorthodox concepts and lifestyle. Her best remembered work today is her semi-autobiographical short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper", which she wrote after a severe bout of post-partum depression.

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Eudora Welty

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Feminist/ Women in the US; The Worn Path, 20th C. American author. Southern. The Optimist's Daughter (Pulizer Prize).

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Ernest Hemingway

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Ernest Hemingway fought in Italy in 1917. He later became a famous author who wrote "The Sun Also Rises" (about American expatriates in Europe) and "A Farewell to Arms." In the 1920's he became upset with the idealism of America versus the realism he saw in World War I. He was very distraught, and in 1961 he shot himself in the head. Used of the Iceberg Theory.

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William Faulkner

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"A Rose for Emily"-Rejection from society, isolation, necrophilia; written in 1930

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Jamaica Kincaid

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(1949 - ) was born in St. John's, Antigua, under the name Elaine Potter Richardson. In 1983, she won a literary award for "At the Bottom of the River," her collection of short stories. She published "Annie John" in 1985 and "A Small Place," an extended essay about the negative effects of colonization in Antigua, in 1988. In 1990, she published "Lucy," a novel about an au pair working in New York. And wrote Girl in 1996

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Sherman Alexie

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Native American poet, writer, and filmmaker born in the 1900s. Wrote about experiences as a native american. Best known works "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven." (book of short stories) and "Smoke Signals" a film. "The Absolutly True Diary of a Part-Time Indian." Wrote This is What it means to say Phoenix Arizona" in 1994. Also the author of Protest and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

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Sandra Cisneros

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(born in America but of Mexican decent) wrote The House on Mango Street - For her insightful social critique and powerful prose style, she has achieved recognition far beyond Chicano and Latino communities, to the extent that The House on Mango Street has been translated worldwide and is taught in American classrooms as a coming-of-age novel The writer of Barbie-q in 1991

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Julio Cortázar

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The writer of Continuity of Parks which was written in 1914

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Wuther Crue

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The writer of Ordeal by Cheque... written in 1932

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Agency

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it is giving the choice of freedom, choice and power

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So Far From God

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The novel tells the story of relatively short lives and (longer) deaths of the four daughters. Esperanza, a journalist, dies as a hostage in the Middle East; Fe dies of cancer as a result of chemical poisoning from her job in the weapons industry; Caridad is miraculously restored after a mysterious mauling, and later dies--or disappears--off a cliff with the woman of her dreams; La Loca, the remaining daughter, dies of what appears to be HIV infection. Sofi, having pronounced herself mayor of Tome, in her grief over Loca's death, goes on to found the worldwide organization, M.O.M.A.S. (Mothers of Martyrs and Saints).

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Ana Castillo

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Mexican author born into extreme poverty in Chicago who is the author of So Far from God

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A Farewell to Arms

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E. Hemingway. A love story which draws heavily on the author's experiences as a young soldier in Italy. Lieutenant Frederic Henry, a young American ambulance driver during WWI. Falls in love with nurse Catherine Barkley. The Battle of Caporetto. In Switzerland, their child is born dead, and Catherine dies due to hemorrhages.

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The Things They Carried

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T he protagonist, who is named Tim O'Brien, begins by describing an event that occurred in the middle of his Vietnam experience. "The Things They Carried" catalogs the variety of things his fellow soldiers in the Alpha Company brought on their missions. Several of these things are intangible, including guilt and fear, while others are specific physical objects, including matches, morphine, M-16 rifles, and M&M's candy

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Tim O'Brien

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The narrator and protagonist of the collection of stories. He is a pacifist who rationalizes his participation in Vietnam by concluding that his feelings of obligation toward his family and country are stronger influences than his own politics. When the war is over, he uses his ability to tell stories to deal with his guilt and confusion over the atrocities he witnessed in Vietnam, including the death of several of his fellow soldiers and of a Viet Cong soldier by his own hand.

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anthropomorphism

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attributing human characteristics to an animal or inanimate object (Personification)

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diction

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An author's choice of words, phrases, sentence structures and figurative language, which combine to help create meaning and tone.

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euphemism

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use of an inoffensive word or phrase in place of a more distasteful one

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Imagery

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description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)

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Kinesthetic Imagery

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use of language to represent an experience pertaining to the movement of muscles, tendons, or joints

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Tactile Imagery

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descriptive language that appeals to the sense of touch

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Visual Imagery

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descriptive language that appeals to the sense of sight

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Auditory Imagery

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use of language to represent an experience pertaining to sound

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Olfactory Imagery

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descriptive language that appeals to the sense of smell

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Gustatory Imagery

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descriptive language that appeals to the sense of taste

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Organic Imagery

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internal or emotional sensation: hunger, thirst, fatigue, fear.

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Pun

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sharp and irritating to the senses

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Irony

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A contrast between expectation and reality

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Situational Irony

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irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected.

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Dramatic Irony

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(theater) irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play

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Verbal Irony

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a figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant

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Metonymy

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a figure of speech that uses the name of an object, person, or idea to represent something with which it is associated, such as using "the crown" to refer to a monarch.

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Omission

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a form of deception that involves leaving consequential details out of one´s story.

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Inferences

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After you make you observations, you can make predictions of what is seen

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Parallelism

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phrases or sentences of a similar construction/meaning placed side by side, balancing each other.

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Rheotorical Question

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a question that requires no answer, usually because the answer is implied

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Symbol

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a thing that represents or stands for something else, esp. a material object representing something abstract.

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Complex Symbol

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including the ability to communicate freely about the past, the future, and the invisible.

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Simple Symbol

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one set meaning for a symbol for example the color blue always being assosiated with a boy

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Archetypal Symbol

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a recurring character type one that appears in the literature of different times and places

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Synedoche

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Using one part of an object to represent the entire object (for example, referring to a car simply as "wheels")

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Direct Adress

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the use of commas to separate the name of the person who is being addresed

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Reliability

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A quality of some fictional narrators whose word the reader can trust.

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Novel

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A fictional story that is long, written in prose, and uses special techniques, of which the most essential is its tendency to give a detailed revelation of the beliefs, feelings, thoughts, and affairs of human beings in everyday life

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Short Story

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A story with a fully developed theme but significantly shorter and less elaborate than a novel.

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Conventions

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A Characteristic of a literary Genre (Often unrealistic) that is understood and accepted by audiences because it has come, through usage and time to be recognized as a familiar technique.

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unity of effect

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every part, every detail, contributes to a single and overall feeling

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