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American Literature
American Literature
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Literature
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10/18/2017

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Narrative
Definition
A true or fictitious story
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Round Character
Definition
Demonstrates a range of human qualities typical of actual human beings. Spiderman is considered a round character because he displays many human emotions.
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Protagonist
Definition
The central figure in a literary work. Batman is the hero and protagonist in the movies that bear his name.
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Infer
Definition
Conclude based on evidence or premises.
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Types of Linear Plots (3)
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Chronological
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Flashback
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Exposition
Definition
The start of the story, the situation before the action starts
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Conflict
Definition
The dramatic struggle between two forces in a story. Without conflict, there is no plot.
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Gothic
Definition
Relating to a style of fiction that has grotesque, desolate, and mysterious themes and descriptions
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Stanza
Definition
A division of a poem into two or more lines
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Personification
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A device in which human characteristics are given to something nonhuman.
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Soliloquy
Definition
A speech made by a character who is alone and speaks private thoughts as if the audience were not there
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Vernacular
Definition
The everyday language spoken by a people as distinguished from the literary language
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Frame Story
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A narrative structure containing or connecting a series of otherwise unrelated tales
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Sardonic
Definition
Scornfully or cynically mocking
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Querulous
Definition
Given to complaining; peevish
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Literary Criticism
Definition
Starting from Aristotle in the 4th century BCE, studies the art of literature and explores the ways that literature affects us emotionally, intellectually, and aesthetically.
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The Harlem Renaissance
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The Harlem Renaissance was the development of the Harlem neighborhood in New York City as a black cultural mecca in the early 20th Century and the subsequent social and artistic explosion that resulted. Lasting roughly from the 1910s through the mid-1930s, the period is considered a golden age in African American culture, manifesting in literature, music, stage performance and art. (History.com)
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Flat Character
Definition
Shows one single, dominant trait
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Antagonist
Definition
The character who opposes or works against the protagonist
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Sequence
Definition
The order in which the events happen in a story
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