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short statement that conveys a general truth or observation about life
aphorism
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the juxtaposition of terms, ideas, sounds, or letters
chiasmus
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romantic writers valued intuition and...
humanity and nature
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The " dark romantics" were known for writing about
the dark side of human nature
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trancendentalist writers were known writing but also for
abolition
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rhetorical strategy that the writer wants to analyze and group similer terms or one term into parts is
classification
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writing in the Age of Reason was mostly
Public and political
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the repition of phrases at the beginning of a sentence is
anaphora
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The age of reason occured during
1700-1800
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Important writer during age of reason
Thomas Jefferson
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-stories about creation of the world
-origins and migrations of the tribe
-cultural heroes
native american poetry
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by using reason, human beings can manage themselves and their societies without depending on authorities or past traditions
the age of reason
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movement in literature in which writing focused on science, ethics, and government
clacissm
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believed in individual worth, goodness of humanity, glory of communion with nature
romanticism
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began in britain with authors such as Coleman, Wordsworth, Bryon, Bronte sisters
romanticism
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occured during 1800-1860
romanticism
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nature, the past, and the inner world of human nature
romanticism
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reformed anti-slavery and feminism
transcendentalists
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Thoreau and Emerson were
transcendentalists
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act or process of forming reasons and drawing conclusions and applying them to case in discussion
assertion/justification
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SOAPSTONE is a mnemonic device for what
speaker, audience, purpose, subject, and tone
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native americans preserve their literature throug
pictographs and oral tradition
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repeated character, image, or plot structure within a cultures literature or across all literature
archetype
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puritism occured during
1600-1740
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puritans wrote
journals,poems,sermons
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puritan literature focused on
attaining grace and salvation
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technique of repeating conjuctions in closed succession
polysyndeton
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imagery can be defined as
the use of fig. language and words and phrases that create sensory images for the reader
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help audience understand credibility, credentials, and competency
ethos
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extended metaphor and also an elaborate comparison of two very unlike things
conceit
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repitition of the same word or words comes at the end of successive phrases,clauses, or sentenes
epistrophe
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language used to make an emotional and ethical appeal
connotative language
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figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related
metonymy
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paradox reduced to two words
oxymoron
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similarity between like features of two things
analogy
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original pattern or model from which all things are copied
archetype
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the use of name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related.
example: counting heads
metonymy
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part for whole or whole for part
synedoche
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self contradictory or false proposition
paradox
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