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| Romanticism was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1890. |
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| Taking notes on a story, learning how a character feels and interacts and thoughts involved with reading. |
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| The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a gothic story by American author Washington Irving, contained in his collection of 34 essays and short stories entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.. Written while Irving was living abroad in Birmingham, England, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" was first published in 1820. |
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| Plot is a literary term used to describe the events that make up a story, or the main part of a story. These events relate to each other in a pattern or a sequence. The structure of a novel depends on the organization of events in the plot of the story. |
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There are three basic types of linear, or sequential, plots
Chronological order
Flashback
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A pattern of repeated sounds. Some poems have regular rhyme
schemes, and others do not. Internal rhyme occurs when words within a line
have the same sound. |
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| the author’s attitude toward a subject |
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| The author's voice refers to a writer's style, the quality that makes their writing unique. A character's voice is the speech and thought patterns of characters in a narrative |
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In such works as her Pulitzer Prize-winning The Age of Innocence, Wharton combined
humor and empathy to describe the lives of New York’s upper class and their
vanishing world in the early years of the 20th century. |
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Characteristics of regionalist fiction are:
Specific setting
Dialect
Detailed description
Frame story
Characters
Narrator
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Theme |
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| the attitude or practice of accepting a situation as it is and being prepared to deal with it accordingly. |
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| the philosophical belief that everything arises from natural properties and causes, and supernatural or spiritual explanations are excluded or discounted. |
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| Ethan Frome is a 1911 book by American author Edith Wharton. It is set in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts. |
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| The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual, social, and artistic explosion centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s |
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| James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. |
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| the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing. |
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| How an author arranges their writing. |
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| The Lost Generation is the social generational cohort that came of age during World War I. "Lost" in this context refers to the "disoriented, wandering, directionless" spirit of many of the war's survivors in the early post-war period. |
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| a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid |
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| In rhetoric, a rhetorical device, persuasive device, or stylistic device is a technique that an author or speaker uses to convey to the listener or reader a meaning with the goal of persuading them |
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