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Submitted by bradb on Wed, 04/04/2007 - 13:00
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See below for definitions of important terms

  • Captivity Narrative
  • Determinism
  • Didacticism
  • Fatalism
  • Feminism
  • Free Will & Determinism
  • Humors
  • Imagism
  • Irony
  • Magic Realism
  • Myth
  • Pastoral
  • Post Colonialism
  • Predestination
  • Puritanism
  • Satire
  • Sentimentalism and Sentimental Novel
  • Slave Narrative
  • Sublime
  • Symbol
  • Theme
  • Tragedy
  • Transcendentalism
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