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| A factual account of events in life or development of people, Nation, institution or culture. |
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| Tells what happens in a story, accounts of people, places, and events |
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| drawing conclusions by examing the comments |
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| Choice of words used by a writer |
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| Brief poem that expresses the writer's personal feelings and thoughts |
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| Figure of speech that compares things by saying that one thing is another |
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| comparison made between two things to show the similarities between them |
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| A person's account of his or her life; generally written in 1st person and its influenced by a person's attitude, thoughts, and feelings. |
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| Art of skill of public speaking |
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| Decisive or important turning point, a moment when a crucial change is about to occur. |
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| figure of speech when exaggeration is used to express strong emotion to make a point and humor. |
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| method of increasing suspense by presenting events and characters in such a way as to hint as to what's going to happen. |
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| stories handed down orally among the common people of a particular culture. |
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| Story that uses wit and irony to ridicule human vice or folly. |
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| a short narrative that draws a moral lesson or illustrates a religous truth. |
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| a work of literature in which events, characters and details of setting have a symbolic meaning used to explain to teach a moral lesson. |
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| using gloomy settings and supernatural events to create an errie feeling. |
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- Human beings exist for the glory of God
- the Bible is the sole expression of God's will
- predestination
- believe in original sin
- purtian ethic
- idealism
- purpose in life
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- reason over faith
- little thought of afterlife
- science-human progression
- people-good by nature, not evil
- perfect society-not ideal dream
- politics-basis of writing
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- not necessarily love
- artistic movement
- favored imagination over reason
- intution over facts
- intrest in expersions of individuals
- accent on history
- strange aspect of human nature
- belief in demcracy-common people
- Spontaneity
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| a rude or impolite person |
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| to overwhelm; to surround and attack |
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| a concern for othersl generosity |
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| pertaining to sexual love |
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| powerless; lacking strength |
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| whirlpool; turbulence; agitated state of mind |
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| embarrassment, a complete loss of courage |
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| to look at or think about with great satisfaction |
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| a total rejection of established laws |
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| to turn aside from a course; stray |
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| to pierce with a sharp stake through the body |
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| to lesson the seriousness by providing excuses |
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| open to more then one interpretation |
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| to ask persistenly; to beg |
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