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(26 cards)
A01
Historical record of an exciting period in American history
A01
typical of an African American experience
A01/2
Narrative method: presumably a central figure in the novel
A02
Short striking sentences
A01/A03
American literature often celebrates individualism
Techniques
Personification - giving human characteristics to animals or objects
Techniques
Onomatopoeia- when the word sounds like the sound e.g crash
Pathetic fallacy
When the weather reflects the human emotions or foreshadows
Metaphor
Direct comparison- saying something is something
Simile
Comparison using like or as
Hyberbole
Exaggeration
Connotation
Associated word
Colloquial
Slang
Informal
Oxymoron
Juxtaposition- bitter sweet
Anaphora
repeated start of sentence
Discourse marker
But- pivotal
Now- initiation
However
Even though- suggests a contrast
Ellipsis
Dramatic pause
Sibilance
repeated S sound
Assonance
repeated vowel sound
Consonance
repeated consonant
Polysyndetic list
list of ands
Asyndetic list
List of commas
Paragraph type and length
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Zeugma
When the clause applies to both- He owned the car and a dog