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American Dream:
lots of money;upward career mobility;welath growing in proprtion to effort;nice marriage; good children; good neighbors only a white picket fence away
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denouement:
literay means "tying of the knot"; when all questions are answered. The final part of Freytag's pyramid
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dramatic climax:
mostexciting part of the narrative
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epiphany:
character's significant realization about some aspect of life
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exposition:
the point in the plot where charcters, situations, and settings are introduced
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technical climax:
naartive turnabout; he point at which power switches hands
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Jazz Age:
period characterized by speakeasies, bathtub gin, short skirts, dancing flappers, and prohibition
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Modernism:
primary theme is the impossibility of meaningful communication, but other prevalent themes are aienation, isoation, and the impossibiity of love. Many modernist writers strive to prove the American Dream is empty.
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motivation:
why a character does things; their intentions
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objective correlative:
super-significant symbol i.e Gatsby's Car
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pathetic fallacy:
the sun comes out and it stops raining when Gatsby and Daisy are once again together
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Prohibition:
legal proscription against the sale and consumption of ethyl alcohol
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recognition:
a reader's personal identification of character traits that are also refected in fictional characters
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rising action:
follows exposition and is charcterized by a gradua complication of the situation at hand
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sympathy:
a reader's ability to understand a character without neccesarily liking. in popuar usage however, we intend the term to mean tender feelings. As a literary term, we don't have to like the charcter, just understand how they become the person that they are
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