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onomatopoeia
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oof
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Coetzee
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lampoon
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a satire
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coltish
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playful; frolicsome.
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insubstantial
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syn. of tenuous
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Who was Pallas/Minerva?
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Athena
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sojourn
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a temporary stay:
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indigent
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(adj): needy; impoverished
(syn): penniless; poverty-stricken; destitute
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Jargon
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Slang for specific group
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foot
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the smallest unit of rhythm
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aspersion
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a damaging or deragatory statement
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1000-925 BCE
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UNITED MONARCHYSamuel anointed Saul,Davidic Covenant,Solomon's Temple,(3 Kings: Saul, David, Solomon)
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Caesura
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a natural pause or break.
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modernism
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modern character, tendencies, or values; adherence to or sympathy with what is modern.
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Personification
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the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
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impunity
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exception from punishment, harm, or loss
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Aestheticism
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(Aesthetic movement) Refers to a movement in late nineteenth-century Europe centered on a belief in "art for art's sake." Rooted in the ideas of Immanuel Kant, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Mallarmé, and others, aestheticism believed that art was not meant to serve a moral or didactic purpose; art's value was its beauty. The ideas of aestheticism came to England through writers such as Walter Pater and later influenced writers such as Wilde and Swinburne who were connected with the Decadence movement. For major writers and works in this area, see the Literary History Chart.
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1250-1000 BCE
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EXODUS & SETTLEMENTExodus, Mosaic Covenant,Entery into promised land(Moses, Joshua, Gideon, Samson)
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sarcasm
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sharp, caustic attitude conveyed in words thru jibes, taunts; differs frm irony, which is more subtle
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dearth
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an inadequate supply; scarcity; lack as during famine
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protagonist
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the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.
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philippic
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a strong verbal denunciation. The term comes from the orations of Demosthenes against Philip of Macedonia in the fourth century
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tone
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the attitude of a writer, usually implied toward the subject or audience
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abominate
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to have intense hatred or dislike for
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the metamorphosis
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franz kafka. modernism and marxist views are seen. gregor, salesman who hates his job, paying off fathers debt. turns into a roach, cant get to work. grete suster takes care of him, plays violin. gregors mother suffers because of his transformation. gregor dies sadly in his room. family tells lodgers they must leave. go to the countryside, they search for a husband for grete
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antithesis
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juxtaposing two words, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”
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rhyme (rime):
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repetition of an identical or similarly accented sound or sounds in a work.
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rhetorical mode
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identifies discourse according to its chief purpose.
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ambidextrous
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able to use both hands equally well:
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discursive
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passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.
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Metaphor
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compares but doesnt use like or as
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precede
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to come, go, or exist before in time
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apostrophe
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An FOS in which a speaker directly addresses an absent person or a personified quality, object, or idea
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Allusion
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is a short, informal reference to a famous person or event: EX You must borrow me Gargantua's mouth first. 'Tis a word too great for any mouth of this age's size.
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Ambiguity
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Ambiguity refers to the ways words or phrases can connote a range of meanings. Ambiguity points to the openness of language to different interpretations and understanding. Also called "plurisignation" or "multiple meanin
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genre
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"literary form" -- a recurring type of literature
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falling action
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all action after the turning point that leads to the denuome
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embark
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to board a ship, aircraft, or other vehicle, as for a journey.
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deduction
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something that is or may be concluded by deriving from something known or inferred
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Anachronism
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An event or a detail that is chronologically
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pathetic fallacy
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An FOS in which human emotions are attributed to inanimate objects
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figure of speech
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a device used to produce figurative language. many compare dissimilar things, figures of speech incude, for example, apostrophe, hyperbole, irony, metaphor, metonomy, oxymoron, paradox, personification and simles.
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Gray - 17
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An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
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detect
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to discover or catch (a person) in the performance of some act:
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End Rhyme
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places the rhyme sounds at the end of the line of verse
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how did the peacock become so gorgeous
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they put arguses eyes on the peacocks feathers
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