Literary Devices
when an author does not use punctuation, but instead forces the reader to follow their thought to the next line
enjambment
the words that show us how the author feels _______
the way that the text makes the reader feel________
tone
mood
began with the Great Migration- blacks leaving the racial South, headed to the Industrial North
Harlem Renaissance
free bird=privileged white Americans
caged bird=African Americans facing segregation and systematic oppression
symbolism
She spent several years of her childhood as a mute because she believed her voice had killed a man.
Maya Angelou
a thematic shift in tone, typically used in a sonnet near the last stanza
volta
Langston Hughes uses a dramatic break in his line-
'Well, son, I'll tell you:
Life for me ain't been no crystal stair."
What is the pause in words called?
caesura
Lewis Carroll wrote between the years 1837-1901. What era did he write during?
Hint-includes complex sentences, and themes of conflict (role of women)
Victorian Era
Hope is the thing with feathers. This is an extended ____________.
metaphor
Edgar Allan Poe is most well known for his tales of _________ and __________.
mystery and macabre
"perched upon a bust of Pallas"....the specific reference to Greek and Roman mythology by an author
allusion
a ballad typically tells a tale of __________ or an ______________
love/ adventure
The writing period spanned the years of 1900-1945, and included such authors as TS Eliot, E. Hemingway, and Robert Frost
Modernist Period
In Because I Could Not Stop For Death, Dickinson wrote, " we paused before a House that seemed a swelling of a Ground"
She used these words instead of writing, "we paused before a hole in the ground that was a Grave"
What is this called?
euphemism
Gary Soto
When you use two contrasting things to highlight the differences. (used car lot in inter vs. line of newly planted trees)
juxtaposition
iambic tetrameter
What four major components need to be included in order for it to be in the Romantic Period?
escapism, individualism, Gothic, imagination
the use the same sound at the beginning of several words is called_________
the repetition of vowel sounds n the middle of several words is called_________
alliteration/assonance
His birth name was Charles Ludwig Dodgson
Lewis Carroll
the TWO devices that are used when an author repeats words at the beginning of several lines over and over (not repetition)
hint-Elis Wiesel also used this in his memoir
anaphora and parallel text structure
Name all 8 poems that we analyzed...not including Dickinson's Because of Death AND THE AUTHORS
The Raven, Hope...Feathers, Jabberwocky, Stopping...Snowy Evening, Caged Bird, Mother to Son, Oranges, Match
name THREE books that are on the contemporary merit list (I showed you pictures of several titles)
Crawdads, Hunger Games, Nickel Boys, Remarkably Bright Creatures, Handmaid's Tale, Kite Runner, Glass Castle, Nightengale
What is the major extended metaphor in Mother to Son?
two staircases:
splintered/torn up/tacks= painful and hard
easy/smooth=crystal stair
He was a professor at Amherst University, the same college that her family started in Massacusetts.
Robert Frost/Emily Dickinson