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Sonnet

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Believed to have originated from Italy; abba, cdcd, efef, and gg are the structure and rhyme scheme that forms the new English sonnet.

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Postmodernism

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Fragmented narrative structures, shifts in consciousness, chronology, or location are features of postmodernism.

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Regionalism

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Typically include detailed descriptions of a particular region, customs, dress, and manner of speaking and thinking of those who inhabit the region.

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Modernist

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Following WWI, moderist literature has a sense of extreme uncertainty, disillusionment, and despair. It involes the inevitably of death and create a stark and unsettling atmosphere.

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Neoclassic

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Cultural movement from the late 18th and early 19th century. Emphasizes order, reason and often makes general observations about human beings (sometimes can be satirical).

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Elizabethan View

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Human society is part of a cosmic hierarchy in which every element has its proper role.

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Imagist

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Typically free verse, draws on a wide range of subject matter, is expressed in common speech and relies on a clear, concentrated image to convey meaning.

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Symbolist

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Late 19th century movement. Characteristics include: rejection of realism, use of symbols, emphasis on emotion and exploration of inner world.

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Parnassian

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A group of French poets, headed by Leconte de Lisle, who sought restraint, precision, and objectivity in poetry, in reaction to the emotional extravagances of Romanticism.

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New Formalist

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Late 20th and early 21st century movement. Championed a return to traditional forms like rhyme, meter, and narrative structures. Rejection of postmodernism.

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Personification

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The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

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Orthography

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the study of letters and spelling, or the art of writing words with the proper letters according to standard usage.

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Deus ex machina

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Any turn of events that resolved plot complications and solves characters’ problems through an unexpected and unlikely intervention.

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Linking verb

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connect the subject of a sentence to a word or phrase that describes or identifies it, rather than showing action

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Free morpheme

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A word that functions on its own

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Denotative

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Literal dictionary definition

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Connotative

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Words and emotions associated with the word.

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Pragmatics

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Helps someone to understand the meaning of a sentence using context.

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Phonology

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the branch of linguistics that deals with systems of sounds (including or excluding phonetics), within a language or between different languages.

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Morphology

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Study of form and structure.

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Lexicography

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compiling, editing, or studying a dictionary or other reference text

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Bound morpheme

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A word that cannot exist on its own (prefix, suffix), but it still has a meaning

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Neolinguistics

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School of linguistics

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Iconography

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the visual images and symbols used in a work of art or the study or interpretation of these.

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Meta cognitive
Focused on helping students think critically about their work
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Preposition
word that connects nouns, pronouns, or phrases to other words in a sentence, showing relationships of time, place, or direction
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Domain-specific
Technical terms/jargon
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Gerund
A verb that can also be a noun (-ing ending)
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Dialectology
the scientific study of dialects, focusing on regional and social variations in language, including vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation, often considered a subfield of sociolinguistics
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Frayer model
Graphic organizer (definition, characteristics, examples, non-examples(
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Conversational implicature
A meaning implied in a speaker's words
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Present participle
Verb ending ing -ing
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Phonetics
Individual sounds in language
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Phoneme
Smallest unit of sound
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Compound
Two independent clauses linked by a coordinating conjuction and a comma.
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Noun phrase
A group of words that functions as noun (ex. The big red car)
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Verb phrase
Contains a verb and an indirect or direct object
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Arbitrariness
Not clear
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Elocution
the art of effective public speaking, using clear pronunciation and breathing to control the voice
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Complex sentence
Contains an independent and dependent clause
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Allophones
Variations of phonemes and morphemes; small units of language that cannot be broken down further without changing their meaning.
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Prose
a straightforward writing style that uses grammatical structure to convey ideas, stories, and concepts to a reader
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Verse
rhyme scheme and meter
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Novella
17,500-40,000 word story
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Correlative
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Epistolary
a literary work where the narrative unfolds through a series of letters, diary entries, newspaper clippings, or other documents, rather than a traditional narrative voice
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Morality play
Hero must overcome evil
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Logographic
Logographic writing systems use symbols or characters to represent words or morphemes (meaningful units of language)
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Homonym
Two or more words with the same spelling and pronunciation but different meanings.
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Interjection
Part of speech that serves as an exclamation and is used to show emotion (ex. Ew, is that...)
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Boomerang effect
A message has a positive effect on the media consumers
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Fable
Animals that personified and serve to deliver a moral at the end of the tale
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Blocking
Actors position and movements on stage.
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High Comedy
Requires wordplay
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Phrase
A fragment (group of words)
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Deductive validity
Evaluates on the idea that if the premise is untrue, then the conclusion cannot be true either.
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Transcendentalism
19th-century American philosophical, spiritual, and literary movement that emphasized individualism, intuition, and the inherent goodness of humanity and nature, rejecting materialism and emphasizing a direct connection to the divine through nature.
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Enthography
a qualitative research method, primarily used in anthropology, that involves immersing oneself in a culture or community to understand their behaviors, beliefs, and practices through observation and interaction.
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Southern Gothic
exploring the region's history, social issues, and the darker aspects of human nature
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Syntax
the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. "the syntax of English"
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Mnemonic
a device such as a pattern of letters, ideas, or associations that assists in remembering something
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Semantics
the meaning of a word, phrase, sentence, or text
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Complex Morpheme
a word or part of a word that contains more than one morpheme, the smallest unit of meaning or grammatical function
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Cuneiform
denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on clay tablets.
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Metaphysical poetry
explores profound, often philosophical, themes like love, death, and the nature of existence, often using wit, paradox, and elaborate metaphors to delve into the relationship between the physical and the transcendent.
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Restoration tragedy
characterized by highly stylized poetic dialogue, larger-than-life heroes, and sensationalistic action. 16-17th century
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Restoration Comedy
Characterized by sexual humor
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Pluralism
a condition or system in which two or more states, groups, principles, sources of authority,
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Dark romanticism
19th century, focusing on the darker aspects of human nature, including themes of death, madness, and the supernatural, often exploring the psychological effects of guilt and sin
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Combinability
The concept that words in a language can be put together in order to form different or specific meanings.
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Consonance
a literary device where similar or identical consonant sounds are repeated in words, often within close proximity, without the same vowel sounds, creating a rhythmic or musical effect
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Assonance
a literary device where similar vowel sounds are repeated in words within a sentence or line of poetry, even if the words don't rhyme, creating a rhythmic or musical effect
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World Literature
Literature that transcends its country of origin and its relevant to multiple cultures.
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Etymology
the study of the origin of words and the way in which their meanings have changed throughout history.
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Gothic Literature
18th century, derived from England. Themes of the grotesque, supernatural elements, and romantic.
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Lost Generation
Grew up during WWI, focused on the psychological effects of war.
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Alliteration
Repetition of sounds at the beginnings of words (ex. Fantastic fox)
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Federalist Papers
Written to convince divided states to ratify the constitution.
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Anagnorisis
the point in a play, novel, etc., in which a principal character recognizes or discovers another character's true identity or the true nature of their own circumstances.
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Alliterative verse
Majority of the words in one line begins with the same letter.
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Elegiac poems
Poems about life and wisdom

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