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author of "the story of an hour"

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kate chopin

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louise mallard, brently mallard, josephine, and richards are characters from what story

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the story of an hour

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name this story. a woman with heart problems is imformed of her husbands death on a railroad track by her sister and her husband's friend. the woman goes to her room alone, and takes notice of the beautiful scenery outside her window. she is relieved about her husbands death. the woman and her sister go back downstairs when the front door opens and the woman's husband appears to be alive. the woman dies of a heart attack immediately at the sight of her husband

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the story of an hour

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name the character who is louise's friend, and informed louise of her husbands death

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josephine

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name the character who was brently's friend and learned of brently's death from a newspaper

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richards

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name the character who loss her husband due to a train accident and randomly died when she found out he was alive

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louise mallard

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name the character who was louise's husband and supposedly died in a train accident

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brently

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name this story. firmly faye had cautioned herself. no way could she risk getting involved with someone, not after the car accident that so completely changed her life. yet falling in love with kai ellington had been easy. his gentle, sensitive nature had soothed away her mental scars. and now kai had a dream, to marry faye and live in a low, white texas ranch house fileld with freckle-faced children. but it was only a dream, a dream that faye knew could never come true because she could not have children. they ended up getting married and adopting two children.

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a secret sorrow

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author of "a secret sorrow"

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karen van der zee

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faye and kai ellington are characters from what story

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a secret sorrow

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name the character who fell in love and dreamed of having a family but could not have children due to an accident

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faye

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name the character who found out his girlfriend couldn't have children and told her he still loved her anyways

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kai ellington

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name this story. a mother is disgusted by the presence of her husband and son, and likes to be alone in her room. her husband is understanding and knows she is sick. the woman hires a babysitter, and then fires her. she eventually only communicates with her family by passing notes under the door. she starts cooking and cleaning and then one day, her husband finds her dead in her room. her child then asks to eat the turkey dinner she had made.

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a sorrowful woman

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the author of "a sorrowful woman"

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gail godwin

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the author of "a rose for emily"

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william faulkner

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name this story. emily grierson lives in the last standing grand house in her area. she does not pay taxes because her father donated money to the town of alderman. the towns people detected an odor outside of her house and put lime around her yard one night. she has a servant named tobe. emily suffers from an illness after her dad died and she becomes involved with homer barron. emily purchases arsenic. homer and emily are planning to get married. homer entered emily's home one day and never returned. after emily died, townspeople found homer's body upstairs laying in the bed.

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a rose for emily

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town of jefferson's previous mayor

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colonel sartoris

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town of jefferson's current mayor

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judge stevens

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name this character who was the object of fascination in the story. A eccentric recluse a mysterious figure who changes from a vibrant and hopeful young girl to a cloistered and secretive old woman. Devastated and alone after her father's death, she is an object of pity for the townspeople. After a life of having potential suitors rejected by her father, she spends time after his death with a newcomer, although the chances of his marrying her decrease as the years pass. Bloated and pallid in her later years, her hair turns steel gray. She ultimately poisons him and seals his corpse into an upstairs room.

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emily grierson

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what are the three values of literature

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it nourishes our emotional lives, broadens our perspective, encourages a mindset that is helpful at work

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formula fiction is also known as what type of literature

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escape

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stories that are aimed at selling as many copies as possible

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formula fiction

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adventure, western, detective, science fiction, and romance are what types of stories

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formula fiction

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name this type of story. a reader can anticipate a happy ending for the central character. there may be suspense, but the hero or heroine will always end up succeeding and reaffirming good values and attitudes

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formula fiction

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publishers send these to authors to detail the basic elements that a writer should include in the story

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tip sheet

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this character is a modern american woman between the ages of nineteen and twenty eight who reflects todays concerns. the story is told in third person from her point of view

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heroine

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this character is about ten years older than the heroine and can be foreign or american. he is handsome and dark and successful

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hero

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the three types of secondary characters in formula fiction

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the other woman, the other man, other characters

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a similarity between a secret sorrow and a sorrowful woman is that both women experience:

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deep sorrow

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a secret sorrow is what type of fiction

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formula

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the author's arrangement of incidents in a story. the organizing principle that controls the order of events

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plot

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this type of plot arrangement begins with what happens first, then second, until the last incident is related

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chronological

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this type of plot arrangement begins in the middle of a story on the verge of something important

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in medias res

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a common strategy of plot arrangement that informs us about events that happened before the opening scene of a work

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flashback

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most of this story uses a flashback plot arrangement to allow the narrator to recount how his past was shaped by circumstances

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battle royal

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an imagined person in the story who is confronted with a problem leading to a climactic struggle that is followed by a resolution

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character

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conventional plot patterns focus on what element of a story

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action

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the background information the reader needs to make sense of the situation in which the characters are placed

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exposition

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where the plot gains momentum, and a complication is presented that intensifies the situation

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rising action

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a suggestion of what is yet to come

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foreshadowing

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the central character who engages our interest and empathy

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protagonist

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the force that opposes the protagonist

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antagonist

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makes the reader anxious about what is going to happen

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suspense

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the moment of greatest emotional tension

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climax

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when the conflict is resolved

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resolution

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resolution, also known as denouement means what

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untying of the knot

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most popular in adventure stories because the protagonists physical struggles with a formidable foe provide excitement

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external conflict

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plots in serious fiction focus on what

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conflict

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a moral or psychological issue that must be resolved within the protagonist

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internal conflict

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what additional element does serious fiction offer

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perspective

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the methods by which a writer creates people in a story so that they seem actually to exist are called

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characterization

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the two major methods of presenting characters

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showing and telling

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type of literature in which characters are alienated from themselves and their environment in an irrational world - there is no possibility for traditional heroic action

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absurdist

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this type of character undergoes some kind of change because of the action of the plot

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dynamic

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this type of character does not change

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static

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this helps to reveal by contrast the distinctive qualities of another character

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foil

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what type of character is the protagonist from a rose for emily

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static

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who coined the terms round and flat characters

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forster

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this type of character embodies one or two qualities, ideas, or traits that can be readily described in a brief summary

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flat

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another name for flat characters

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stock characters

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stock characters are most popular in what type of fiction

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formula

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this type of character is more complex and has more depth and requires more attention. they can puzzle you and consists of competing ideas, values, and possibilites

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round

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the author of bartleby, the scrivener

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herman melville

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name the story about a lawyer who needs an extra worker and hires one. the worker seems to do well and eventually tells the lawyer he would prefer not to. the lawyer is fascinated by the worker and keeps him around until the worker stops working all together. the lawyer fires him and moves offices. the worker refuses to leave and was arrested. the lawyer comes to visit the worker in jail and notices he is dead

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bartleby the scrivener

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the narrator of bartleby the scrivener

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the lawyer

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name this character. a young man hired by the lawyer to serve as a scrivener, or law- copyist. He starts out as an excellent copyist, but when asked to examine his work for errors, he replies that he "would prefer not to." he soon answers anything he is asked to do with "I would prefer not to," and he slowly drives the lawyer and his fellow scriveners crazy.

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bartleby

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the eldest employee of the lawyer in bartleby the scrivener. he is a good worker in the morning, but in the afternoon his face becomes flush and he gets a short temper. he makes more mistakes in his work in the afternoon.

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turkey

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scrivener, or law-copyist, employed by the lawyer in bartleby the scrivener. he is the opposite of his fellow scrivener turkey; he is young, and he works best in the afternoon. In the morning, he is troubled by stomach problems and a constant need to adjust the height of his desk.

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nippers

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the lawyer's errand boy in bartleby the scrivener."

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ginger nut

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the story of a man who leaves his wife for a meeting in the forest and tells her to pray. he meets up with a man and recognizes a well respected woman who turns out to be a witch. he ends up walking to the ceremony where he is becoming a convert, and he sees faith and his minister there too. he tells faith too look up and avoid the devil and everything disappears. the next day he thinks everyone is evil and he is changed. he no longer loves his wife, and he lives in gloom and fear

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young goodman brown

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a young resident of salem and the story's protagonist. he is a good christian who has recently married faith. ge takes pride in his family's history of piety and their reputation in the community as godly men. his curiosity, however, leads him to accept an invitation from a mysterious traveler to observe an evil ceremony in middle of the forest, one that shocks and disillusions him.

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goodman brown

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Goodman Brown's wife. she is young, beautiful, and trusting, and Goodman Brown sees her as the embodiment of virtue

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faith

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The man, possibly the devil, who tempts Goodman Brown into attending the ceremony in the forest. The man intercepts Goodman Brown in the middle of the dark road, then presides over the ceremony. He sees through the Salem villagers' charade of Christian piety and prides himself on the godly men he has been able to turn to evil.

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old man

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the context in which the action of a story occurs

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setting

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the three major elements of setting are

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time, place, social environment

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who tells us the story and how it is told

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point of view

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what we know and how we feel about the events in a story are shaped by the authors choice of

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point of view

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the teller of a story

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narrator

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this point of view uses he, she, or they to tell the story and does not participate in the action

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third person

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this point of view uses i and is a major or minor participant in the action

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first person

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an all-knowing narrator. takes us inside the characters

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omniscient

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a narrator that gives us the perspective of only one or two characters

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limited omniscient

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a narrator who does not see into the mind of any character. the narrator reports action and dialogue without telling us directly what the character feels or thinks

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objective

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third-person narrator is also known as

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nonparticipant

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first person narrator is also known as

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participant

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a narrator who's interpretation of events is different from the authors

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unreliable

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a person, object, or event that suggests more than its literal meaning

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symbol

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symbols that are widely recognized by a society or culture

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conventional

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a symbol that can include traditional, conventional, or public meanings, but it may also be established internally by the total context of the work in which it appears

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literary

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a character, object, or incident that indicates a single, fixed meaning

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allegory

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the central idea or meaning of a story that provides a unifying point around which the all other elements of the story are organized

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theme

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the distinctive manner in which a writer arranges words to achieve particular effects. including word choice, sentence length, sentence structure and tone, and the use of irony

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style

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refers to a writers choice of words

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diction

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who is the narrator in bartleby the scrivener

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the lawyer

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who is the narrator in a rose for emily

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the townspeople

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point of view in a rose for emily

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first person

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point of view in bartleby the scrivener

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first person

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a device that reveals a reality different from what appears to be true

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irony

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device that consists of a person saying one thing but meaning the opposite

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verbal irony

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verbal irony that is calculated to hurt someone is known as

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sarcasm

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exists when there is an incongruity between what s expected to happen and what actually happens

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situational irony

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occurs when the author allows the reader to know more about a situation than a character knows

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dramatic irony

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name this story. a newlywed woman who is asleep with her husbands arm underneath her. she is very happy and reminiscing on her past as a child, but then she begins to notice an ugliness about her husbands hand and describes its motions throughout the night. the next day she is still disgusted by his hand, but kisses it anyways

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the hand

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in the hand, what is the husbands hand a symbol of

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their marriage

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pont of view in the hand

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third person

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point of view in battle royal

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first person

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name this story. The narrator — speaking in the voice of a man in his 40s — reminiscing about his youth, opens the novel. He remembers when he had not yet discovered his identity or realized that he was an invisible man. The narrator relates an anecdote concerning his grandfather who, on his deathbed, shocks his family by revealing himself as a traitor and a spy (to his race). The narrator also recalls being invited to give his high school graduation speech at a gathering of the town's leading white citizens. When he arrived, he discovered that he was to provide part of the evening's entertainment for a roomful of drunken white men as a contestant, along with nine of his classmates, in a blindfolded boxing match (a "battle royal") before giving his speech. The entertainment includes an erotic dance by a naked blonde woman with a flag tattoo on her stomach, which he and his classmates are forced to watch. After enduring these humiliating experiences, the narrator is finally permitted to give his speech and receives his prize: a calfskin briefcase that contains a scholarship to the local college for Negroes (a term Ellison preferred over "blacks"). That night, the narrator dreams that he is at the circus with his grandfather, who refuses to laugh at the clowns. His grandfather orders him to open the briefcase and read the message contained in an official envelope stamped with the state seal. Opening the envelope, the narrator finds that each envelope contains yet another envelope. In the last envelope, instead of the scholarship, he finds an engraved document with the message: "To Whom It May Concern: Keep This ******-Boy Running."

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battle royal

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symbols from battle royal include the american flags painted on the strippers stomach suggesting they had more freedom than the black boys. the blindfolds placed on the boys before battle symbolize that they are blindfolded in life and unable to control their actions

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the narrator of ind aff

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first person

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name this story. a young girl goes to sarajevo, bosnia with her married professor/lover and uses the setting to foreshadow a bad turnout of their relationship. she references the inordinate affection princip felt for his country at the diner they were in, and she then feels ind aff for a waiter and realizes she is waisting her time with a married man. she leaves him in this spot

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ind aff

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name this story by anton chekhov. tells the story of an unexpected romance through the perspective of a male protagonist named Dmitri Gurov with Anna Sergeyevna as the love interest. Dmitri is portrayed as an insensitive confident man who refers to women in degrading ways. He is uninterested in his wife and continually participates in affairs with forgettable women for whom he has no feelings for. He and Anna meet when she is on vacation in Yalta and he notices she looks bored. They begin to meet up regularly, which is very different from Dmitri's usual relationships. His feelings for Anna evolve into love, and once she returns home to her husband, he realizes he needs to be with her. Throughout this entire story, Dmitri expresses very little concern for his wife during the affair.

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the lady with the pet dog

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point of view in chekhov's the lady with the pet dog

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third person

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point of view in oate's the lady with the pet dog

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third person

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in this story the point of view is told from anna and the reader gets to know more about her feelings of cheating towards dmtiri. written by joyce carol oates

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the lady with the pet dog

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point of view in a good man is hard to find

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third person

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name the story where a grandmother does not want to travel to florida because of a so called misfit and her sons family is very disrespectful towards them. she cares greatly about her appearance and claims to be christian. she tells her so to visit a plantation but realizes they are in the incorrect spot when they get into a car accident. they wait for a car to come by and it turns out to be the mis fits who kill they boys and then the girls and then she experiences a moment of clarity and realizes how wrong her priorities were. she tells the misfit he is a good person and then he shoots her in the chest three times

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a good man is hard to find

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a term used for lines whose subject matter is trite and whose rhythm and sounds are monotonously heavy-handed

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doggerl

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a prose restatement of the central ideas of a poem in your own language

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paraphrase

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the voice used by the author in a poem

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speaker

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words made from the letters of other words such as read and dare

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anagram

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a central idea or meaning in the poem

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theme

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a brief poem that expresses the personal emotions and thoughts of a single speaker

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lyric

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a poem that tells a story

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narrative poem

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a long narrative poem on a serious subject chronicling heroic deeds and important events

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epic

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ideas or expressions that have become tired and trite from overuse

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cliches

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predictable, conventional reactions to language, characters, symbols, or situations

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stock responses

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exploits the reader by inducing responses that exceed what the situation warrants

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sentimentality

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i heard a fly buzz, theres a certain slant of light, and what soft cherubic features are poems by who

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emily dickinson

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dickinson's poem about a depressing winter

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theres a certain slant of light

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dickinson's poem about death and having friends around her

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i hear a fly buzz

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dickinson's poem about sarcastic women

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what soft cherubic features

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who's poems are especially known for a reflection of new england life

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robert frost

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the major concerns of the fragility of life, the passion of grief, sustaining intimacy, fear of loneliness, the inevitability of change appear in who's poems

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robert frost

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name this poem. the speaker comes to a fork in the road and must choose one path

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the road not taken

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name this poem. a simple but irresistible songlike invitation to the pleasure of looking at the world through the eyes of a poet

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the pasture

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acquainted with the night, birches, and mending wall are poems by what author

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robert frost

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how do poems travel, osso buco, nostalgia, questions about angels, litany, building with its face blown off are poems by who

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billy collins

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a rose for emily, a good man is hard to find, and deliverance are examples of why type of literature

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american gothic

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