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| Reveals human beings to be at the mercy of a cruel fate |
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| Central character has naive view contrary to knowledge of other characters/audience |
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| Ridicules human failing (Gulliever's Travels) |
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| Contradictory statement that may be true |
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| Couplets that have 2 lines with rhyming at the end |
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| Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
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| The Illiad, The Odyssey - Dactylic hexameter, unrhymed |
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| Ovid- Dactylic hexameter, Roman history and myths |
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Romanticism
-Lyrical Balads |
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Reformation
-Gulliver's Travels |
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-Rime of the Ancient Mariner
-Tintern Abbey |
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Reformation
-Paradise Lost |
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Renaissance
-The Farie Queen |
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| Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
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Victorian
-The Sonnets from the Portuguese |
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-Sherlock Holmes |
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Songs of Innocence/Experience
The Tyger |
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-Charge of the Light Brigade |
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Romanticsm
-To the West Wind |
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17th C.
-Intellect rather than emotions |
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Steam of Consciousness
-The Sound and the Fury |
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Pioneering life of the 20th C.
-My Antonia |
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Depression of the 1930's
-Of Mice and Men
-The Grapes of Wrath |
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| Frances Ellen Watkins Harper |
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Life in abolition
-Sketches of Southern Life |
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| Henry Wadsworth Longellow |
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-Poet of the 1800's
-Haiwatha |
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Puritan era
-Scarlet Letter
-House of the Seven Gables |
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Manifest destiny
-On Liberty |
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Sleepy Hollow
-Rip Van Winkle |
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1919-1935
-Langston Hughes
-Zora Neil Hurston |
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| Pronoun as Predicate Noun |
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| She IS the person who prank called us. |
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| Essential Adjective Clause |
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| The cookies THAT I MADE are... (modifier) |
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| Non-Essential Adjective Clause |
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| Robert, WHO IS NICE, is... (Modifier w/ commas) |
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My apartment is A PLACE THAT IS SMALL.
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| Noun Clause as Predicate Nominative |
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Running on pavement is WHAT MY DOCTORS FORBADE.
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Tonie, a greek girl, is...
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| Noun Clause as an Indirect Object |
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| I'd like to order WHATEVER I WANT. |
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-a word that consists of 2 independent words
-"Loud speaker" |
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-A word or phrase that a subsequent word refers back to
-I'll give this to MARY when I see her. |
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| Links independent clauses that do not have conjunctions |
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-End in "ing" and used with "be" to indicate continuing action or state
-I am going. |
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-End in -ed, -en, -d, -t, -n
-Used with "have"
-Used with "be to form passive voice
-The ball was kicked. |
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| Bear (animal) and bear (tolerate) |
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| Study of what something actually means |
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| Rules of sentence formation |
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| Words that have same linguistic origin or root |
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| Indicates number, tense, person, rate |
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| Emerson, Whitman, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Holmes |
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| Break in rhythm of language |
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| Stanza of two rhyming lines |
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| Run-on line poetry where one line ends and continues onto the next line to complete meaning |
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| Pair of lines of poetic verse in iambic pentameter |
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