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📄 English Lit 101: Poetic Devices - Structure Enjambment EndStopped Line Caesura Elision Line Break Stanza Break

📄 English Lit 101: Poetic Devices - Stanza Forms Couplet Tercet Quatrain Cinquain Sestet Octave Italian Sonnet Division OctaveSestet English Sonnet Division 3 Quatrains Couplet

📄 English Lit 101: Poetic Devices - Sound Devices Alliteration Assonance Consonance Onomatopoeia Euphony Cacophony Repetition Refrain

📄 English Lit 101: Poetic Devices - Rhyme End Rhyme Internal Rhyme Perfect Rhyme SlantNear Rhyme Eye Rhyme Masculine Rhyme Feminine Rhyme Rhyme Scheme ABAB ABBA AABB etc

📄 English Lit 101: Poetic Devices - Meter Iambic Trochaic Anapestic Dactylic Spondaic Pyrrhic Feet per line Monometer Dimeter Trimeter Tetrameter Pentameter Hexameter Heptameter Octameter

📄 English Lit 101: Poetic Devices - Figurative Language Simile Metaphor Personification Apostrophe Hyperbole Understatement Irony Paradox Oxymoron Metonymy Synecdoche Pun Double Entendre

📄 English Lit 101: Major Periods and Movements - Victorian Literature PreRaphaelites Industrial Novel Social Critique Dramatic Monologue Aestheticism Decadence

📄 English Lit 101: Major Periods and Movements - The Restoration and 18th Century Age of Sensibility Graveyard Poets Gothic Fiction

📄 English Lit 101: Major Periods and Movements - The Renaissance Metaphysical Poets Cavalier Poets

📄 English Lit 101: Major Periods and Movements - Romanticism Gothic Romanticism Emphasis on Imagination Nature Emotion Individual Sublime

📄 English Lit 101: Major Periods and Movements - Postmodernism Metafiction Pastiche Parody Irony Fragmentation Magical Realism

📄 English Lit 101: Major Periods and Movements - Old English AngloSaxon Literature Beowulf Caedmon The Wanderer The Seafarer Elegiac Poetry

📄 English Lit 101: Major Periods and Movements - Modernism Stream of Consciousness Fragmentation Allusion Alienation Disillusionment

📄 English Lit 101: Major Periods and Movements - Middle English Literature Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales Dream Vision Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Pearl Poet Medieval Drama Mystery Miracle Morality Plays

📄 English Lit 101: Major Periods and Movements - Contemporary Literature Late 20th Century to Present Toni Morrison Margaret Atwood Cormac McCarthy Digital Literature Transnational Writing

📄 English Lit 101: Literary Genres - Poetry Lyric Narrative Epic Sonnet Petrarchan Shakespearean Haiku Ode Elegy Villanelle Sestina Free Verse Blank Verse Concrete Poetry

📄 English Lit 101: Literary Genres - Nonfiction Autobiography Biography Memoir Essay Personal Critical Literary Journalism Travel Writing Letters Diary Creative Nonfiction

📄 English Lit 101: Literary Genres - Fiction Novel Novella Short Story Flash Fiction Realism Naturalism Modernism Postmodernism Magical Realism Speculative Fiction

📄 English Lit 101: Literary Genres - Drama Tragedy Comedy Tragicomedy History Farce Melodrama Absurdist Theatre OneAct Play Monologue Soliloquy Aside

📄 English Lit 101: Literary Elements - Theme Central Idea Universal Truth Message Motif Leitmotif

📄 English Lit 101: Literary Elements - Symbolism Symbol Allegory Pilgrims Progress Animal Farm Metaphor Extended Metaphor Conceit

📄 English Lit 101: Literary Elements - Style Diction Formal Informal Colloquial Slang Dialect Syntax Sentence Length Structure Inversion Imagery Figurative Language Tone Mood

📄 English Lit 101: Literary Elements - Setting Time Place SocialCultural Environment Atmosphere Mood Symbolic Setting

📄 English Lit 101: Literary Elements - Point of View First Person I We Second Person You Third Person Limited Third Person Omniscient Third Person Objective Unreliable Narrator Frame Narrative

📄 English Lit 101: Literary Elements - Plot Exposition Rising Action Climax Falling Action Denouement Resolution In Medias Res Flashback Foreshadowing Subplot

📄 English Lit 101: Literary Elements - Character Protagonist Antagonist Round Flat Dynamic Static Foil Confidante Archetype Hero Mentor Shadow Trickster Innocent Outcast

📄 English Lit 101: Literary Criticism - Structuralism Binary Oppositions Deep Structure Langue vs. Parole Myths Signs Semiotics Narratology Genette Todorov

📄 English Lit 101: Literary Criticism - ReaderResponse Criticism Iser Implied Reader Jauss Horizon of Expectations Aesthetic of Reception Fish Interpretive Communities Affective Stylistics

📄 English Lit 101: Literary Criticism - Queer Theory Heteronormativity Performativity Butler Queer Reading Camp LGBTQ Studies Sedgwick

📄 English Lit 101: Literary Criticism - Psychoanalytic Criticism Freud Unconscious Oedipus Complex IdEgoSuperego Defense Mechanisms Dream Symbolism Lacan Mirror Stage ImaginarySymbolicReal Desire

📄 English Lit 101: Literary Criticism - Poststructuralism Deconstruction Derrida Differance Trace Undecidability Binary Hierarchy Reversal Deconstructive Reading

📄 English Lit 101: Literary Criticism - Postcolonial Criticism Orientalism Said Subaltern Spivak Hybridity Bhabha Colonial Discourse Resistance Diaspora Nationalism

📄 English Lit 101: Literary Criticism - Marxist Criticism Class Struggle Base and Superstructure Alienation Commodification Ideology Hegemony Gramsci

📄 English Lit 101: Literary Criticism - Formalism New Criticism Close Reading Text as Autonomous Intentional Fallacy Affective Fallacy Irony Paradox Ambiguity

📄 English Lit 101: Literary Criticism - Feminist Criticism Patriarchy Gynocriticism Écriture Féminine Gender as Performance Intersectionality Waves of Feminism Woolf Gilbert Gubar Showalter Cixous Irigaray Kristeva

📄 English Lit 101: Literary Criticism - Ecocriticism Nature Writing Environmental Imagination Anthropocene Deep Ecology Animal Studies Climate Fiction CliFi

📄 English Literature: Theme - Universal Ideas, Stated vs. Implied, Multiple Themes

📄 English Literature: Symbolism - Objects, Colours, Characters as Symbols

📄 English Literature: Setting - Time, Place, Atmosphere, Historical Context

📄 English Literature: Poetic Devices - Rhyme, Meter, Alliteration, Assonance, Onomatopoeia

📄 English Literature: Plot Structure - Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution

📄 English Literature: Literary Genres - Fiction, Short Story, Novel, Poetry, Drama, Nonfiction

📄 English Literature: Figurative Language - Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Hyperbole, Irony

📄 English Literature: Drama Terms - Dialogue, Monologue, Soliloquy, Stage Directions

📄 English Literature: Characterisation - Direct vs. Indirect, Flat vs. Round, Static vs. Dynamic

📄 English Literature: Allegory - Extended Metaphor, Political, Moral, Religious

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