Quizlet 8G:1:65 Lit Final

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  1. alice walker wrote:: everyday use
  2. amy tan wrote:: two kinds
  3. charlotte perkins gilman wrote:: the yellow wallpaper
  4. david sedaris wrote:: naked
  5. emily dickinson wrote:: i could not stop for death
  6. epiphany: a sudden realization; the "ah-ha!" moment
  7. gabriel garcia marquez wrote:: a very old man with enormous wings
  8. imagery: literary references to sensory impressions.
  9. jamaica kinkaid wrote:: girl
  10. james joyce wrote:: araby
  11. jane austen wrote:: pride & prejudice
  12. john updike wrote:: a&p
  13. langston hughes wrote:: a mother to her son, poet to bigot
  14. magical realism: in which magical elements appear in realistic settings
  15. margaret atwood wrote:: happy endings
  16. margaret edson wrote:: wit
  17. meta-theatrical/meta-fiction: things within a text that draw you into the convention, like a play within a play (example: Bottom's play in Midsummer Night's Dream)
  18. metaphor: comparison using "is."
  19. metaphysical poetry: example: John Donne. 17th Century poets focused on theory, not mysticism.
  20. paradox: a device in which a seeming contradiction may reveal an unexpected truth
  21. repetition: constantly repeating for effect.
  22. simile: comparison using "like" or "as."
  23. stream of consciousness: literature without formal structure. echoes true thought. nonlinear.
  24. tim o'brien wrote:: the things they carried
  25. tone: the means by which a poet reveals attitudes and feelings; satire and irony included.
  26. william faulkner wrote:: a rose for emily
  27. william shakespeare wrote:: a midsummer night's dream