Prose Terms Flashcards by Erik Hillman

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Anaphora

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Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses or clauses

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Anecdote

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Entertaining short account of incident

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Angst

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Feeling of anxiety or depression

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Antagonist

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Anti protagonist

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Appeals

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Ethos, pages, logos

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Asyndeton

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No and or or. No conjunctions

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Bildungsroman

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Coming of age

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Chiasmus

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AB

BA

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Dystopia

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Bad place

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Epiphany

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Revolution

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Epistolary

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Written through exchanged letters

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Existentialism

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Life is absurd and meaningless

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Expletive

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Words added only for grill

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Foul

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Opposite of main character

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Genre

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Type

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Gothic

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Medieval in nature

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Hubris

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Excessive pride

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I’d, Ego, superego

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3 parts if personality

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Litotes

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Gorse understatement

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Naturalism

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Nature and social forces cause things to happen

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Noble savage

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Adamic heroes, getting back to nature

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Parallelism

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Similar constructions

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Polysyndeton

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Repetition of conjunctions

Here there and everywhere

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Realism

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Writing reality

Romanticism

Subjective experiences

Syntax

Word order

Anadiplisis

Repeating at beginning of phrase | Man of loyalty, loyalty he was

Erudite

Knowledgeable view

Colloquial

Everyday language