Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson
Leading scholars speculate she might have been agoraphobic (afraid to leave her house)
Who is Emily Dickinson?
A reference to a historical or literary event.
What is an allusion?
A mode of expression, through words or events, conveying a reality different from and usually opposite to appearance or expectation.
What is irony?
Main focus of Regionalism.
What is: Focused on characters, dialect, customs related to a certain region
Sometimes called 'local color'
The protagonist.
Who is Janie?
Dickinson and Whitman are considered transition poets between transcendentalism and this literary movement
What is realism?
Something that stands for or suggests something else; it represents something beyond literal meaning.
What is a symbol?
A deliberate exaggeration to achieve an effect; overstatement
hyperbole
Development of believable characters occurs during this literary movement.
What is Realism?
What is southern black dialect?
I celebrated these "American" ideals in my poetry.
What is the:
celebration of individuals
love of the common man
love of democracy
An author places two things side by side as a way of highlighting their differences.
What is juxtaposition?
A character whose purpose is to accentuate or draw attention to the qualities of another character, most often the protagonist.
Foil Character
Characteristics of piety, purity, domesticity, and submissiveness are characteristics of this.
What is Cult of Domesticity?
The kind of tree symbolizes Janie’s desire to flourish and blossom as a woman.
What is a pear tree?
Because I could not stop for this, it kindly stopped for me.
What is death?
“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -
Bold words are an example of this type of rhyme.
What is a slant rhyme?
TIQAtIQAC acronym.
What is
Topic Sentence
Introduction to Quote
Quote
Analysis
Transition x 2
The narrator in "The Yellow Wall-Paper"
What is unreliable?
The cause of Tea Cake's death (directly and indirectly)
Indirectly- What is saving Janie in the Hurricane?
What is:
cataloging?
lack of regular meter?
lack of conventional rhyme?
Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.
Is an example of this?
What is a paradox?
(statement that may appear to contradict itself, but may be true)
Janie says Let 'em say what deh wants tuh, Pheoby
pg 150
What is Janie says, "Let 'em say what deh wants tuh, Pheoby" (Hurston 150).
Who is Mark Twain?
Janie wears these to Teacake's funeral.
What are overalls?