Literary & Lyrical Prose
Ordinary writing that sounds musical
What is Lyrical Prose?
"It hit her like a sledge hammer, and it was then that she knew what to feel." (36)
What is a Simile?
The name of the mostly black community in Ohio
What is The Bottom?
The most common form of writing, without particular usage of rhyme, meter
What is Literary Prose?
The naming of the Bottom
What is Irony?
The two friends that were to blame for Chicken Little's death
Who are Nel and Sula?
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote this story with lyrical prose to portray the Roaring Twenties effectively
What is the Great Gatsby?
Sula’s birthmark is a ________ for her otherness and outsider status.
What is a Metaphor?
Shadrack's self-proclaimed holiday on every January 3rd
What is National Suicide Day?
The type of lyrical prose that repeats similar sounds at the start of words
What is Alliteration?
"He had answered a question she had not asked, and its promise licked at her feet." (63)
What is Personification?
The language Helene's mother speaks
What is Creole?
Sounds created by stopping air flow from the lungs by making a complete closure in the mouth
What is a Plosive?
"That wisdom, which seems to have been unavailable to Chaucer, or Dante, or Catullus, or Sophocles, or Shakespeare, or Dickens, is still with us, and, in 1969 it placed an inordinate burden on African American writers." (Foreword)
What is Polysyndeton?
The event that killed Shadrack's followers and the Deweys
What is the catastrophic tunnel collapse event?