Black History
"Like a raisin" "like a sore" "like a heavy load" are examples of a poetic device
What is a simile?
In Emily Dickinson, this was taken from hymns and is described by numbers Ex: 8/6/8/6
What is rhythm?
Breaking the law in protest against an injustice-- explained by Henry David Thoreau and used by Martin Luther King, Jr and Gandhi.
What is civil disobedience?
In "Occurrence at Owl Creek" bridge, the little hints that help us realize that the whole experience did not really happen are called this.
In "The Cask of Amontillado" Montressor, the vengeful, and Fortunado, the victim are examples of this literary element
The mask in "We Wear the Mask" and the caged bird in "Sympathy" are examples of this literary device.
What is a symbol?
Walt Whitman's "I Hear America Singing" with no set rhyme or rhythm is an example of this type of poetry.
What is free verse?
The man who said, "No law can be sacred to me but that of my own nature."
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
In his "Second Inaugural Address," Abraham Lincoln used this device to show the shared beliefs between the North and the South.
What are Biblical allusions? Diction choices?
The literary element that is represented by the gloom, dark, creepy feeling readers get when they read "The Cask of Amontillado"
What is mood?
The literary relationship between "I, too, sing America" and "I Hear America Singing"
What is an allusion?
"O! Captain, My Captain" uses the symbol of the "rack" to represent this event.
What is the Civil War?
"Trust thyself" "Imitation is suicide" and "Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist" are examples of this device.
What is an aphorism?
In "The Gettysburg Address," Abraham Lincoln used this type of diction to show the sacredness of the sacrifice.
What is religious diction?
The literary device used when Rosicky's corn crop was destroyed by heat and he took his family on a picnic so they could enjoy what they had.
What is irony?
In Zora Neale Hurston's "How it Feels to be Colored Me," Hurston uses this device to compare people of different races to paper bags.
What is an analogy?
This literary element can be illustrated by the statements: America consists of various, strong, working people (in "I Hear America Singing") and Individuals desire autonomy (in "The Soul Selects Her Own Society").
What is a theme?
The literary device used in "Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine."
What is a metaphor?
Abraham Lincoln's desired outcome in his "Second Inaugural Address."
What is unity? (Or what is peace?)
Description of Rosicky's eyes, his kind interactions with the store clerk, his flashbacks to his time in London and New York, his concern for Polly, and his thoughts about the graveyard all serve as part of this literary device.
What is characterization?
Despair in "Sympathy" and Hopefulness in "I, Too" and Confidence in "How it Feels to be Colored Me"
What is tone?
"Much Madness is Divinest Sense" is an example of this literary device.
What is paradox?
The belief that humanity is perfectible; nature is the source of knowledge; humans are guided by their own intuition; nature and humans have a spark of the divine.
What is Transcendentalism?
The "peculiar and powerful interest" that was in some way the cause of the war
What is slavery?
Poe's belief that stories should be PURE ART, NOT TRUTH
What is the Heresy of the Didactic?