Poetry
A form of literature that uses creative, rhythmic, and often condensed language to evoke emotions, ideas, or vivid imagery.
What is poetry?
Literature or narrative created from imagination, rather than based strictly on fact or history. It includes novels, short stories, dramas, and films, focusing on invented characters, plots, and settings.
What is fiction?
A genre of writing that uses literary styles and techniques—such as narrative structure, character development, and vivid imagery—to tell true, factually accurate stories
What is creative non-fiction?
The significance of the title of the play, "Trifles."
What is highlighting how male characters dismiss women’s domestic concerns as insignificant "trifles," while these very details hold the crucial evidence of motive in the murder investigation?
The 2 essential features of a literary thesis statement.
What are theme and literary devices and/or critical lens/theory?
Written in the 700s, this poem is about merchant's wife's devotion, longing, and coming-of-age that follows her journey from innocent childhood to a mature, devoted wife waiting for her husband's return.
What is "A Song of Changgan" ("A Poem of Changgan) by Li Bai?
The body of ideas and methods used in the practical reading of literature that reveal what literature can mean - by examining texts through different philosophical lenses.
What are Critical/Literary Theories.
Prose writing that is based on facts, real events, and real people, such as biography or history.
What is non-fiction?
In Trifles - symbolizes the pretty, young Minnie Foster before she was married.
What is a Canary?
The format of an MLA in-text citation.
What is author last name and page number?
Explores the complex, haunting emotions surrounding abortion, focusing on themes of profound regret, loss, and the haunting memories of unlived lives.
What is the poem, "Mother" by Gwendolyn Brooks?
A strongly politically-oriented criticism, deriving from the theories surrounding social and economic class.
What is Marxist Criticism?
Symbolizes the forced assimilation and cultural erasure of Native American Identity in "Schools Days of an Indian Girl."
What is the cutting (or shingling) of the children's long hair?
In A Doll's House - Seeming terms of endearment that Torvald uses to infantilize Nora.
What are Skylark, Songbird, and/or Squirrel?
The goal of literary analysis.
What is uncovering a deeper meaning/theme of a story?
Cultural alienation, identity, and the struggle of living between two worlds as a Mexican-American.
What is the theme/main message of Pat Mora's "Legal Alien?"
Immortality is a curse rather than a blessing, resulting in profound loneliness, existential despair, and the loss of meaning.
What is the theme/main message of Mary Shelley's "The Mortal Immortal?"
The author is an only daughter in a family of six sons.
Who is Sandra Cisneros?
The 5 elements of Drama.
What are Characters (Casting) & Costuming, Setting, Dialogue, Acts & Scenes, and Stage Directions?
The use of concrete objects, characters, colors, or actions to represent abstract ideas, feelings, or deeper meanings beyond their literal sense.
What is symbolism?
Emotional connection, language artistry, self-reflection, and writing imporvement.
What are some reasons to read/write poetry?
Nature's harsh indifference to human life, the necessity of instinct over intellect, and the fatal consequences of arrogance (hubris)
What is the theme/main message of Jack London's "To Build a Fire?"
This novel explores the power of literature to provide freedom and empathy under an oppressive, totalitarian regime.
What is "Reading Lolita in Tehran?"
In "A Doll's House," these two characters are initially a foil for one another but become more alike as the play progresses.
Who are Nora (Helmer) and Christine (Linde)?
Topic sentence, evidence, analysis, concluding sentence.
What is the TEAC format for body paragraphs?