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A symbol that has so much meaning that it immediately connects to contexts beyond the symbol. EX: Cross = Christianity, Heart = Love, etc.

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Conventional Symbol

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A type of nonstandard English diction spoken by people from a particular geographic area, economic group, or cultural group

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Dialect

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A writers choice of language, including words, phrases, and sentence structure

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Diction

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When the reader knows more about a situation in fiction than the imaginary characters do

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Dramatic Irony

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The use of a word or group of words that is literally inaccurate but is used in description. Metaphors, smilies, and allusions are examples of figurative language.

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Figurative Language

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A comparison without using like or as EX: You are the sun!

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Metaphor

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A comparison using like or as

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Simile

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A work of fiction that consciously explores it's own nature as a literary creation. Fiction that concerns the nature of fiction itself, either by reinterpreting a previous fictional work or by drawing attention to its own fictional status.

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Metafiction

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A symbol developed for a particular work by a particular author

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Personal Symbol

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A distinctive and recognizable way an author uses language to create a work of literature.

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Style

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The events of a story, or what the story is about.

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Subject

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An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself, that stands for something beyond itself.

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Symbol

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Structure of phrases, clauses and sentences

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Syntax

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Central idea of a work of literature

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Theme

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A writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization on the sentence and global levels.

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Tone

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

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Verbal Irony

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The specific manner chosen by the author to create a story.

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Voice

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Literary Criticism that concerns itself with class differences, economic systems, and the implications of the capitalist system.

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Marxist Criticism

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Literary Criticism that concerns itself with how elements of the author's life influence the author's writing.

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Biographical Criticism

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Literary Criticism that concerns itself with gender, gender identity, and how gender is expressed, defined, and used in literature.

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Feminist Criticism

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Literary Criticism that concerns itself with the idea that "great literature" may be defined though the expression of specific literary components like plot, character, and location.

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New Criticism

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Literary Criticism that concerns itself with the idea that all literary works contradict their own meaning.

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Deconstructionist Criticism

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Literary Criticism that concerns itself with the structure of a work--how it is organized and expressed.

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Structuralist Criticism

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Literary Criticism that concerns itself with the the expression of mental and emotional conditions within literary works.

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Psychological Criticism

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Latin for "In the Middle of Things."

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In Medias Res

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That point in a plot that creates the greatest intensity, suspense, or interest; usually the point at which the conflict is resolved

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Climax

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readers feel they know what will happen and feel a sense of completion

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Closed Ending

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The final part of a play, film, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved.

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Denouenment

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A conversation between characters

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Dialogue

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The suggestion of the outcome of the action or the conclusion of the plot contained in the opening paragraphs of a short story.

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End Orientation

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A narrative device, often used at the beginning of a work that provides necessary background information about the characters and their circumstances.

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Exposition

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Events after the climax, leading to the resolution.

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Falling Action

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A narrative device that hints at coming events; often builds suspense or anxiety in the reader.

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Foreshadowing

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A narrator who knows everything of one character, but not the others.

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Limited-Omniscient Narrator

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The voice that tells the story in a literary work.

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Narrator

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A connection succession of events or happenings.

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Narrative

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This is a third person narrator who only reports on what would be visible to a camera. The objective narrator does not know what the character is thinking unless the character speaks of it.

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Objective Narrator

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an ending that does not reveal the final outcome of the conflict

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Open ending

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Sequence of events in a literary work.

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Plot

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In literature, the perspective from which a story is told.

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Point of View

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The series of conflicts or struggles that build a story toward a climax.

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Rising Action

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A fictional narrative written in prose, which is shorter than a novel.

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Short Story

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A literary technique that presents the thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur.

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Stream-of-consciousness Narration

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When a plot twist happens near the end of a story, especially if it changes one's view of the preceding events.

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Twist Ending

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the point in a work in which a very significant change occurs

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Turning Point

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A narrator whose account of events appears to be faulty, misleadingly biased, or otherwise distorted

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Unreliable Narrator

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A traditional character in Laguna-Pueblo literature who is kidnapped by a Ka'tsina.

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Yellow Woman

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One of the spirits that are important in the religion of the Hopis and other Pueblo peoples, and to also to other tribal peoples in the Southwest.

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Ka'tsina

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Means "Forest" or "Woods." It is the "name" of the man who kidnaps Yellow Woman.

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Silva

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The Author of "Yellow Woman."

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Leslie Marmon Silko

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The narrator speaks as "I," and the narrator is a character in the story who may or may not influence events within the story.

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First Person Point of View

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The narrator seems to be someone standing outside the story and telling it.

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Third Person Point of View

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The general locale, historical time, and social circumstances in which the action of a fictional or dramatic work occurs; the setting of an episode or scene within a work is the particular physical location in which it takes place.

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Setting

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A myth is a traditional tale of deep cultural significance to a people.

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Myth

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A community's cultural and historical traditions passed down by word of mouth or example from one generation to another without written instruction.

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Oral Tradition

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A character type that appears repeatedly in a particular literary genre, one which has certain conventional attributes or attitudes. (Example: Blind man who can see the truth.)

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Stock Character

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Any representation of an individual being presented in a dramatic or narrative work through extended dramatic or verbal representation.

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Character

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A type or category of literature or film marked by certain shared features or conventions.

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Genre

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Absurdity we have to deal with living in a world of faceless bureaucracies

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Kafkaesque

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A complete change of physical form as if my magic or witchcraft.

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Metamorphosis

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Symbolic narrative that represents abstract or spiritual meaning through characters & events

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Expressionism

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20th century philosophy concerned with human existence, finding self and the meaning of life through free will, choice and personal responsibility.

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Existentialism

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A 20th century movement of artists and writers (developing out of Dadaism) who used fantastic images and incongruous juxtapositions in order to represent unconscious thoughts and dreams.

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Surrealism

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Involves lots of symbolism and metaphors, and doesn't really make any sense on the surface

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Absurdist

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An expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances

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Allegory

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Any of various small animals or insects that are pests.

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Vermin

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The protagonist in "The Metamorphosis"

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Gregor Samsa

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Czech

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Franz Kafka's nationality

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German

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Language of "The Metamorphosis"

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Traveling salesman.

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Gregor Samsa's occupation

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Married to narrator of "The Yellow Wallpaper"

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John

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Women's Suffrage (Voting Rights)

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19th Amendment

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Prohibition (Alcohol was outlawed)

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18th Amendment

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Promoted family planning and the use of contraceptives.

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Margaret Sanger

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1890-1920

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Progressive Era

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