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1620 - 1750 (American)

Coming to America, Colonial life

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Colonial Period

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1750 - 1815 (American)

Colonies’ quest for independence

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Age of Revolution

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1800 - 1865 (American)

Emphasis on the celebration of individualism, love for nature, break away from British literary tradition

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Romantic/Transcendental Period

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1855 - 1910 (American)

American life as truly was, emphasized verisimilitude (likeness to life)

Civil War Writers, Regionalists, Naturalists

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Realistic Period

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1900 - 1950 (American)

The changing world, World Wars, alienation, Roaring Twenties, the Depression, Harlem Renaissance

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Modern Period

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1950 - present (American)

Challenge traditional values and structures, heightened concern for social values, individualism, American Dream/reality, cultural diversity, tolerance, search for identity

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Postmodern Period

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449 - 1066 (British)

Epic Poems; Focus on concern for morality and goodness

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Anglo-Saxon Period

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1066 - 1485 (British)

Focus on religion, romance, diversity, and chivalry; morality plays, folk ballads

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Medieval Period

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1485 - 1660 (British)

Includes the Elizabethan Age; great English Drama; Focus on love and nature of human beings

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Renaissance Period

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1660 - 1798 (British)

Age of Sensibility, the Enlightenment; focus on logic, reason, and rules; comedies of manners, essays, satires

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Restoration Period

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1785 - 1830 (British)

Focus on truth found in nature and unrestrained imaginative experience; poems, ballads, gothic horror novels

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Romantic Period

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1832 - 1900 (British)

Focus on social, religious, and economic turmoil; novels, magazines, elegies

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Victorian Period

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1900 - 1945 (British)

Focus on social issues, characters experience epiphanies, human behavior and relationships; stream of consciousness

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Modern Era

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What are the four broad literary genres?

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Nonfiction
Fiction
Drama
Poetry

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What are the five sub-genres of Fiction?

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Folklore
Science Fiction
Horror
Realistic Fiction
Satire
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What is a Folklore?

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A set of beliefs and stories of a particular people, which are passed down through the generations

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What are the four types of Folklore?

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Fairy Tales
Fables
Myths
Legends

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Form of Folklore that are stories that involve magical creatures such as elves and fairies

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Fairy Tales

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Form of Folklore that is a short story that is intended to teach a moral lesson

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Fable

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Form of Folklore that are stories, often involving gods or demigods, that attempt to explain certain practices or phenomena

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Myth

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Form of Folklore with unverifiable stories that seem to have a degree of realism about them

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Legend

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In poetry, what is a stanza?

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A group of lines followed by a space

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What is a two line stanza called?

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Couplet

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What is a three line stanza called?

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Tercet

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What is a four line stanza called?
Quatrain
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What is a five line stanza called?
Cinquain
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This is a short narrative song about an event that is considered important; are meant to be recited
Ballad
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This is lyrical poem composed of fourteen lines, usually written in iambic pentameter.
Sonnet
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``` This sonnet has the pattern of: abba abba cde OR cd cde OR cd cd ```
Petrarchan or Italian
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``` This sonnet has the pattern of: abab cdcd efef gg ```
English or Shakespearean
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What is a Haiku?
A short, Japanese poem that consists of 3 lines and seven syllables (divided into 5, 7, 5)
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This poem is usually nineteen lines long, 5 stanzas each with 3 lines, and final stanza with 4 liness
Villanelle
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In traditional plot structure, this is introduction of important background information about the setting, the characters, and the current state of the world.
Exposition
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In traditional plot structure, this introduces the antagonist and establishes the conflict.
Inciting incident
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In traditional plot structure, this is the turning point in the story.
Climax
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In traditional plot structure, this is when the conflict is solved.
Resolution
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In traditional plot structure, this is the events that move the characters away from the conflict and into a new life.
Falling Action
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This type of figurative language is a comparison of two or more things.
Metaphor
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This type of figurative language is a comparison of two or more things using "like" or "as".
Simile
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This type of language uses vivid description to appeal to the reader's senses.
Imagery
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This type of figurative language is an overstatement or exaggeration.
Hyperbole
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This type of figurative language gives human characteristics to objects, abstract ideas, forces, or animals.
Personification
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This literary device in which the author uses a concrete object, action, or character to represent an abstract idea.
Symbolism
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This literary device is a reference to a historical person or event, a fictional character or event, a mythological or religious character or event, or an artist or artistic work.
Allusion
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This literary device is a common saying that lack originality but are universally understood.
Cliche
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This literary device is used to hint at future events.
Foreshadowing
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This literary device is used when a character or narrator says something that is the opposite of what he or she means.
Verbal Irony
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This literary device occurs when something happens that contradicts what the audience expected to happen.
Situational Irony
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This literary device occurs when the audience know about something of which a character(s) are not aware.
Dramatic Irony
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This term refers to the arrangement of rhyming words in a stanza or poem.
Rhyme Scheme
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This type of rhyme is not true rhyme.
Slant Rhyme
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This term refers to the rhyming of two or more words in the same life of poetry.
Internal Rhyme
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This term refers to the pattern of accentuated sounds within a poem.
Rhythm
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This is an established within a poem in which the accentuated syllables are repetitive and predictable.
Meter
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Poetic foot: Unstressed, stressed (da DUM)
Iamb
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Poetic foot: | Unstressed, unstressed, stressed (da da DUM)
Anapest
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Poetic foot: Stressed, unstressed (DUM da)
Tochee
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Poetic foot: Stressed, unstressed, unstressed (DUM da da)
Dactyl
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Poetic foot: Stressed, Stressed (DUM DUM)
Spondee
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This is poetry written in iambic pentameter and is unrhymed.
Blank Verse
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This is poetry without rhyme patterns or regular meter.
Free Verse
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This poetic device is the inclusion of words with the same vowel sounds within one or two lines of poetry.
Assonance
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This poetic device is the repetition of the same consonant sounds at the end of a stressed syllable, but following different vowel sounds.
Consonance
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What are the seven types of literary theory?
``` Reader-Response Theory Feminist Literary Theory Queer Theory Deconstructionist Literary Theory Semiotic Analysis Theory Marxist Theory Formalism or New Criticism Theory ```
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This type of Literary Theory is centered on the idea that as readers read, they experience a transaction with the text. There is not single understanding of a text, unique to readers.
Reader-Response Theory
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This type of Literary Theory involves asking questions about the degree to which a literary text perpetuates the ideas that women are inferior to and dependent on men or that the perspective of a woman is not as interesting or significant as that of a man.
Feminist Literary Theory
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This type of Literary Theory investigates texts by asking questions about both gender and sexuality; challenges cultural assumptions related to sex and gender, especially related to identity.
Queer Theory
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This type of Literary Theory focuses on dissecting and uncovering the writer's assumptions about what is true and false, good and back. Begin with examining language.
Deconstructionist Literary Criticism
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This type of Literary Theory is the study of signs, signals, visual messages, and gestures.
Semiotic Analysis Literary Theory
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This type of Literary Theory focuses on the economic systems that structure society and the ways human behavior is motivated by a desire for economic power; life can only be understood by concrete.
Marxist Theory
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This type of Literary Theory emphasizes closely reading the text and analyzing how literary elements create meaning in it; it is unconcerned with the text's effect on the reader.
Formalism or New Criticism Theory
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This logical fallacy occurs when the main argument is based on the assumption that if one particular thing happens, a series of other specific things will follow.
Slippery Slope
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This logical fallacy occurs when an individual comes to the conclusion without enough evidence, based on prior experiences or assumptions.
Hasty Generalization
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This logical fallacy occurs when the argument is simply restated repeatedly with no inclusion of new evidence.
Circular Argument
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This logical fallacy occurs when distracting information is introduced, moving the focus away from the most important points of the argument.
Red Herring
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What is Dichotomous Thinking?
Thinking in dichotomies or pairs of opposing terms, like good/evil, true/false; allows people to see the extremes.
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This rhetorical strategy appeals to the logical.
Logos
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This rhetorical strategy appeals to the emotional.
Pathos
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This rhetorical strategy appeals to the ethical.
Ethos

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