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| biography, autobiography, informational, newspaper |
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| a portrait of the life of a person other than oneself |
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| a biography written by the person him/herself |
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| a book or article that is written to inform, not persuade |
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| the central character of a work of fiction |
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| the character who stands in opposition to the central character: can be something other than a person |
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| the turning point in a work of fiction at which conflicts are resolved |
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| the sequence of events in a work of fiction during which the conlicts occur as the characters move toward resoultion |
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| devices that reveal things about a character, like dialogue, physical description, or attitude |
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| readers must accept the reality created by the writer |
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| a novel that follows the main character's growth from childhood to maturity |
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| a work of drama in which the hero brings ruin upon himself becuase of some tragic flaw |
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| characteristics of an epic poem |
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| invocation of a Muse; supernatural strength; divine interventions |
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| a writer opens a story in the middle |
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| Italian/Petrarchan sonnet |
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| octave (8 lines) asks a question, sestet (6 lines) resolves the issue |
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| English/Shakespearean sonnet |
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| five-line stanza poem- 2 syllables in the first and last lines, four, six, and eight in the middle |
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| five, seven, five syllables; traditionally about seasons or landscape |
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| epics, odes, limmericks--things that rhymed were easier to remember |
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| a group of verses that have a rhyme scheme |
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| a poem physically shaped to reflect a theme (George Herbert's Easter Wings) |
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| the repetition of initial consonant sounds |
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| a story that can be read on a literal and a symbolic level |
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| a letter not intended for public display that becomes public domain because of it's author |
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| a work on a topic that gives a definite point of view in an authoritative tone |
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| a tale offering a moral; often a beast fable |
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| a traditional narrative that blends historical fact with fiction |
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| a universal story that is shared within a culture to explain history and traditions |
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| the atmosphere the writer conveys in a story |
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| the story is being told by a character in the story |
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| the story is being told by someone outside of the story |
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| a verbal blunder in which one word is replaced by another similiar in sound but different in meaning |
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| a correspondence between two characters |
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| ways to modify chronological structure |
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| in medias res; epistolary; flashback; frame narrative |
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| American Colonial period writers |
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| William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet--New England life |
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| American revolutionary period writers |
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| Patrick Henry, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson--political speeches, addresses, letters |
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| American romantic period writers |
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| Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, the Fireside Poets (Longfellow), Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Edgar Allen Poe, Transcendentalism--folklore, the struggles of a new nation, regional, gothic, |
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