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Chile - The United Fruit Co., Poets Obligation

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Pablo Neruda

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Satire

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a technique using irony, sarcasm, or mockery that combines humor and wit with a criticism of human folly

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Chile - Phantom Palace

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Isabel Allende

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Argentina - I’m Your Horse in the Night

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Luisa Valenzuela

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The Negritude Movement

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(1930’s and 40’s) An aesthetic and ideological concept affirming the independent nature, quality and validity of Black culture. A revolt against racial oppression and a search for authentic identity that had been repressed by the colonial experience. Most commonly associated with countries that were colonized by the French. (Senghor, Césaire, Damas)

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words that sound like what they mean (ooze, buzz, click…)

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Onomatopoeia

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Chitra Divakaruni

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U.S.A., india - Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter

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overstatement, exaggeration

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Hyperbole

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words that repeat the same sounds

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Rhyme

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Mario Vargas Llose

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Spain, chile - Why literature

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Point of view

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determined by who is telling the story—an unidentified author, the protagonist, a minor character First person narration: the story is told from the point of view of a participant “I” Second person narration: very rare, “You” Third person narration: most widely used in fiction—assumes a neutral, or objective, presentation (variations: omniscient=access to every thought and emotion of the characters, limited omniscient=partially informed, or shifting back and forth among variations)

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Rhyme

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words that repeat the same sounds

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Apostrophe

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literally means “a turning away”. A figure of speech occurring in poetry when the speaker addresses words to some person or thing (ex. “My people / when out of alien days….” In Césaire’s work)

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a figure of speech that links together two terms which are customarily opposites. (ex. burning ice)

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Oxymoron

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A figure of speech in which analogy or correspondence function to make vivid or to suggest a fresh correlation

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Metaphor

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Isabel Allende

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Chile - Phantom Palace

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Aimé Césaire

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Martinique - Out of Alien Days

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Pablo Neruda

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Chile - The United Fruit Co., Poets Obligation

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Cuba - Can You?, Ballad of the Two Grandfathers

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Nicolás Guillén

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Consonance

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substitution of vowels within words that have the same consonant sounds (ex. Tick/tock, Lazzy/Lazy)

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(1920’s and 30’s) a blossoming of African American culture, particularly in the creative arts, embracing literary, musical, theatrical and visual arts. Participants sought to step out of the reductive and defining limits of stereotypes in order to re-define African American identity. While the movement was not confined to Harlem, this area gathered a remarkable concentration of intellect and talent and served as the symbolic capital of this cultural awakening. (See Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes…)

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The Harlem Renaissance

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words that implicate any or all of the 5 senses (auditory, olfactory, visual, tactile, taste)

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Imagery

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Oxymoron

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a figure of speech that links together two terms which are customarily opposites. (ex. burning ice)

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Nicaragua - Charles Atlas Also Dies

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Sergio Ramirez

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Setting
refers both to the physical location of the events and to the time in which they happen
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Edwige Danticat
Haiti, USA - The Farming of Bones
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Nicolás Guillén
Cuba - Can You?, Ballad of the Two Grandfathers
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repetition of the same vowel sound in nearby words
Assonance
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Mali - When Black Men's Teeth Speak Out
Ouologuem Yambo
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The organization of a series of actions or events, implying causality and achieving certain effects (how material is shaped to affect the reader) Parallel plot: tells two stories of equal importance, often moving from one to the other and back again Subplot: secondary plot often taking the form of a story told by a character within the story
Plot
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The Harlem Renaissance
(1920’s and 30’s) a blossoming of African American culture, particularly in the creative arts, embracing literary, musical, theatrical and visual arts. Participants sought to step out of the reductive and defining limits of stereotypes in order to re-define African American identity. While the movement was not confined to Harlem, this area gathered a remarkable concentration of intellect and talent and served as the symbolic capital of this cultural awakening. (See Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes…)
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Plot
The organization of a series of actions or events, implying causality and achieving certain effects (how material is shaped to affect the reader) Parallel plot: tells two stories of equal importance, often moving from one to the other and back again Subplot: secondary plot often taking the form of a story told by a character within the story
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Theme
the essential subject of the story or novel, its dominant idea or ideas, meanings
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a technique using irony, sarcasm, or mockery that combines humor and wit with a criticism of human folly
Satire
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the essential subject of the story or novel, its dominant idea or ideas, meanings
Theme
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Assonance
repetition of the same vowel sound in nearby words
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Narrative
a record of events that happened (“The King died and the Queen died”)
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determined by who is telling the story—an unidentified author, the protagonist, a minor character First person narration: the story is told from the point of view of a participant “I” Second person narration: very rare, “You” Third person narration: most widely used in fiction—assumes a neutral, or objective, presentation (variations: omniscient=access to every thought and emotion of the characters, limited omniscient=partially informed, or shifting back and forth among variations)
Point of view
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Saul Williams
USA - Sha-clack-clack
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Hyperbole
overstatement, exaggeration
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where a non-human thing or concept is given human attributes
Personification
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Onomatopoeia
words that sound like what they mean (ooze, buzz, click…)
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Personification
where a non-human thing or concept is given human attributes
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the direct correlation of two things using “like” or “as”
Simile
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Haiti, USA - The Farming of Bones
Edwige Danticat
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Metaphor
A figure of speech in which analogy or correspondence function to make vivid or to suggest a fresh correlation
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The Dominican Republic, USA - Aguantando
Junot Diaz
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Junot Diaz
The Dominican Republic, USA - Aguantando
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Chimamanda Adichie
Nigeria - The Danger of a Single Story
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Alliteration
the technique of repeating consonant sounds, commonly at the beginning of words
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substitution of vowels within words that have the same consonant sounds (ex. Tick/tock, Lazzy/Lazy)
Consonance
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Imagery
words that implicate any or all of the 5 senses (auditory, olfactory, visual, tactile, taste)
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literally means “a turning away”. A figure of speech occurring in poetry when the speaker addresses words to some person or thing (ex. “My people / when out of alien days….” In Césaire’s work)
Apostrophe
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a record of events that happened (“The King died and the Queen died”)
Narrative
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Simile
the direct correlation of two things using “like” or “as”
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Nigeria - The Danger of a Single Story
Chimamanda Adichie
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USA - Sha-clack-clack
Saul Williams
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U.S.A., india - Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter
Chitra Divakaruni
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Ouologuem Yambo
Mali - When Black Men's Teeth Speak Out
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Martinique - Out of Alien Days
Aimé Césaire
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refers both to the physical location of the events and to the time in which they happen
Setting
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(1930’s and 40’s) An aesthetic and ideological concept affirming the independent nature, quality and validity of Black culture. A revolt against racial oppression and a search for authentic identity that had been repressed by the colonial experience. Most commonly associated with countries that were colonized by the French. (Senghor, Césaire, Damas)
The Negritude Movement
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Sergio Ramirez
Nicaragua - Charles Atlas Also Dies
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Spain, chile - Why literature
Mario Vargas Llose
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the technique of repeating consonant sounds, commonly at the beginning of words
Alliteration
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Luisa Valenzuela
Argentina - I'm Your Horse in the Night

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