Literature Timeline
This time period is characterized by: oral literature, epic narratives, and creation myths. Use of stories to teach moral lessons. A deep respect for nature and animals.
What is Native American Literature?
An interruption in a narrative that depicts events that have already occurred, either before the present time at which the narration takes place. Often used to give the reader more background information.
What is a Flashback?
An author describes a scene, thing, or idea so that it appeals to the senses.
What is Imagery?
Theme, Language, sound and rhythm, structure, context.
What are the 5 things to consider when analyzing a poem?
This time period is characterized by: Diaries and histories expressing the connection between God and everyday life. Purification by reforming the Church of England, simpler forms of worship. Religion is personal and Very plain style of writing.
What is Puritanism?
A Series of words or phrases that all (or almost all) start wth the same sound. Typically used in Poetry, titles of books, or tongue twisters.
What is Alliteration?
When an author indirectly hints at - through dialogue, description, or characters actions - what is to come later in the story.
What is Foreshadowing?
The who, what, where, when, and why of the poem helps explain its purpose.
What is the context?
This time period is characterized by valued feeling, intuition, idealism, and inductive reasoning. Placed faith in the inner experience and the power of imagination. Shunned the artificiality of civilization. championed individual freedom. Poetry as the highest expression of the imagination.
What is Romanticism?
A story is used to represent a general message about real-life, usually Historical, issues or events. Typically it is an entire book or play.
What is an Allegory?
A statement is used to express an opposite meaning than the one literally expressed. 3 types: Verbal, Situational, Dramatic.
What is Irony?
Read the poem, read it again aloud, map out the rhyme scheme, scan the poem, break down the structure, determine the form, study the language, study the content, determine who the narrator is, and paraphrase the poem line by line.
The 10 steps to analyze a poem?
This period is characterized by philosophers, scientists' speeches, and pamphlets. Human beings arrive at the truth (God's Rules) by using deductive reasoning. AKA- The Age of Reason or The Enlightenment.
What is Rationalism?
When a nonhuman figure or other abstract concept or element is described as having human-like qualities or characteristics. It is used to create a clearer mental picture of the scene.
What is Personification?
The use of informal language and slang. "Hey, what's up, man?"
What is Colloquialism?
Lines that are broken into groups in a poem.
What is a Stanza?
This time period is characterized by: Everything in the world, including humans, is reflective of the divine Soul. People use their intuition to behold God's spirit revealed in nature or in their own world. self-reliance and individualism must outweigh external authority and blind conformity to tradition. AKA The American Renaissance.
What is Trancedentalism
An incorrect word is uesed in place of a word that has a similar sound. This typically results in a statement that is both nonsensical and humorous. Used in comedic writing.
What is Malapropism
An exaggerated statement that's not meant to be taken literally by the reader. Used for comedic effect or emphasis.
What is a Hyperbole?
Assigning a letter to lines to find the distinct pattern.
What is Mapping out the Rhyme Scheme?