Literary Terms and Concepts
The message or main idea of the piece of literature
theme
Author of "The Fall of the House of Usher"
Edna is infatuated with this man throughout the book, who is part of her "awakening"
Robert Lebrun
Nick lives next to this person
Jay Gatsby
This musician was on an FBI watch list, and had to go through extra steps to publish the song that would become one of her most remembered songs, "Strange Fruit."
Billie Holiday
The mode of writing and storytelling that focuses on dark, psychological aspects. It often has elements of horror and the supernatural. Also Ms. Hooper's specialization in grad school.
gothic
Who were the two Transcendentalist authors we studied?
Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson
Water and the threat of drowning are a repeated pattern in The Awakening, also called a ______.
motif
The color of Gatsby's car
yellow
This is the cause of death for all but two people in the short story by W.E.B. Du Bois.
toxic comet gas
two things compared side by side
juxtaposition
In this story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, a young man travels at night into the forest outside Salem, and meets the devil...and the rest of his neighbors in a demonic midnight mass. Maybe.
Young Goodman Brown
(Ms. Hooper read this in high school and had no idea what was happening the entire story.)
In the short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" there is a smudge on the yellow wallpaper all the way around the room for this reason.
Nick's unwillingness to tell readers all of what happens in certain scenes means that he is this type of narrator.
Unreliable
This musician wrote a song in tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. after his assassination.
Ella Fitzgerald
The name for writers who came after WWI, like Fitzgerald, who felt disillusioned by the American Dream.
The Lost Generation
"Hope is a thing with wings that perches in the soul" according to this Romantic author
Emily Dickinson
In Little Women, these are the names of the four March sisters.
Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy
Gatsby likely made most of his money doing this.
Bootlegging (selling alcohol during Prohibition)
In what two states was artist and memoirist Miné Okubo incarcerated during Japanese Internment?
California and Utah
The 19th century idea that men and women operate in separate spheres, with women in the home, and men in the work place. Cult of ________.
Domesticity
This Romantic era abolitionist wrote several autobiographies and settled in Ms. Hooper's hometown.
Frederick Douglass
This is the name that Edna briefly has an affair with while her husband is in New York.
Alcee Arobin
Tom breaks this in the second party of the novel, which occurs at an apartment he rents in upper Manhattan.
Myrtle's nose
What is Sucker's real name?
Richard