Pale Horse, Pale Rider
This is the name of the author who wrote Pale Horse, Pale Rider.
Who is Katherine Anne Porter?
At the beginning of the story, the main character is happy and describes the world using the names of these two shiny metals.
What are silver and gold?
Hughes writes and compares life without dreams to a "broken-winged bird". This metaphor is tragic because birds are usually used in literature to symbolize this?
What is freedom?
This is the literary term for an author's specific choice of words.
What is diction?
Porter creates a tired and exhausting feeling, Larsen creates a tragic feeling, and Hughes creates an encouraging feeling. This literary term is the author's emotional vibe in a text.
What is tone?
The story takes place during what major world war and this global sickness.
What is the Influenza pandemic?
The main character thinks leaving his partner will make him happy, but her death actually makes him trapped by this bad feeling.
What is guilt/regret or sadness?
Hughes uses the imagery of a "barren field" and "frozen snow" to describe a life without dreams. These word choices are examples of imagery used to create a tone that feels like this feeling.
What is hopeless/lifeless/cold
Larsen compares mental fog to soot using the word "as" in "thick as soot". This type of comparison is called this.
What is a simile?
All three writers use descriptive language to paint a picture in the reader's mind. This technique is known as this.
What is imagery?
Porter's story focuses mainly on the character Miranda who suffers physically and mentally from this sickness.
What are fever dreams?
To make the ending feel even more tragic, Larsen creates the story so the main character celebrates his independence before he finds out this crazy and tragic news.
What is that his partner died?
The poem's structure is very simple and direct because it uses short lines and basic language. Hughes used this specific syntax to make sure that this was true for the reader.
What is making the message clear/easy to understand?
Hughes compares life to a "broken-winged bird" without using the words "like" or "as". This type of comparison is called this.
What is a metaphor?
In Freedom, the main character loses his mind because of emotional guilt, Miranda in Pale Horse, Pale Rider loses her mind because of a physical one of these.
What is a sickness or fever?
Porter uses words like "death" and "war" to create a feeling of hopelessness. When an author uses a specific word choice it is known as this literary term.
What is diction?
At the end of the story, the main character is said to be weeping in front of a sinking fire. This shows the story's tone has shifted from confident to this feeling.
What is tragic / sad?
The tone of the poem gets more serious when Hughes changes the phrase "if dreams die" to this word.
What is "when"?
This is the literary term for sentence structure and length. Porter and Larsen both use this to change and match their characters' emotions.
What is syntax?
Hughes uses imagery to show that dreams are needed for survival, Porter uses imagery of "pale light" and "white cloth" to show how close society was to this.
What is death?
When talking about the war ending, Porter uses short and blunt sentences instead of exclamation points to show that the characters feels this certain feeling.
What is numb or empty?
Larsen writes "He had left her, she was dead" over and over again to show his thoughts are stuck in a loop. This is an example of what literary device?
What is repetition?
Hughes wrote this poem in 1922 during this famous era that represented hope and equality for Black Americans in New York.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This device is used when the opposite of what is expected in the story happens, like when the "freedom" in Larsen's story actually becomes a trap.
What is irony?
The authors of these three works show how humans deal with emotional weight. Hughes uses simple syntax to show hope and Larsen and Porter use shifting syntax to show the mind doing this.
What is breaking down or becoming numb?