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| 2301384410 | adventure novel | novel in which exciting events and fast paced actions are more important than character development, theme, or symbolism (Ex. Dumas's The Three Musketeers) | 0 | |
| 2301400584 | American Dream | optimistic desire for self-improvement, freedom, self-sufficiency, and self determination; "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" ideal; motif of hard work, ingenuity, and honesty as means of rising economically and socially (Ex. Horatio Alger novels) | 1 | |
| 2301540282 | defamiliarization | presenting audiences with common things in an unfamiliar way in order to enhance perception of the familiar (Ex. poetry of Wordsworth, where subjects are viewed with a child's wonder and amazement) | 2 | |
| 2301586447 | diacope | repetition with only one or two words between each repeated phrase; meant to show strong emotion. (Ex. "My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed.") | 3 | |
| 2301609088 | Hemingway Code | a hyper-masculine moral code used to make sense of the world; a man who lives correctly, following the ideals of honor, courage and endurance in a world that is sometimes chaotic, often stressful, and always painful (Ex. Any Hemingway protagonist) | 4 | |
| 2306737128 | Victorian Period | period of British literature from 1840-1900; excellent novelists, essayists, poets, and philosophers but few dramatists; attitudes of social progress, conservative morals, hard work, gentlemanly honor and feminine virtue but also hypocrisy and smugness (Ex. Jane Austen) | 5 | |
| 2306775297 | naturalism | literary movement that depicts life without emotion, idealism, and literary convention; post-Darwinian philosophy; human beings exist entirely within nature and do not have souls or live beyond the biological realm; we are higher animals determined by heredity and environment alone (Ex. Stephen Crane) | 6 | |
| 2306819920 | Machiavellian | refers to sneaky, ruthless, and deceitful behavior, especially in regard to civil rulers obsessed with power who pretend to be honorable and trustworthy in order to achieve evil ends; term originates in essay "The Prince" written by Niccoló Machiavelli (Ex. Caesar, Antony) | 7 | |
| 2306864908 | palinode | poem, song, or section of a work in which the poet renounces or retracts his words from an earlier work; usually meant to apologize or counterbalance earlier material (Ex. Chaucer at the end of Canterbury Tales) | 8 | |
| 2306897843 | Faustian bargain | temptation motif from German folklore in which an individual sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge, wealth, or power (Ex. Marlowe's Doctor Faustus) | 9 |
