Characters: characterization, foil, or juxtaposition?
Themes: I name the theme, you name the story
Style
Definitions
100
"...it was like trying to see through a blanket" (Connell).
What is simile?
100
"Yet the character of his face had been at all times remarkable. A cadaverousness of complexion; an eye large, liquid, and luminous beyond comparison..." (Poe).
What is characterization?
100
Civilization vs. savagery
What is "The Most Dangerous Game"?
100
"During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year...a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit" (Poe).
What is mood?
100
A comparison made between two things in which one is called another.
What is metaphor?
200
"She washed us in a river of make believe" (Walker).
What is metaphor?
200
"Dee is lighter than Maggie, with nicer hair and a fuller figure..." (Walker).
What is a foil?
200
Decay
What is "The Fall of the House of Usher"?
200
"who by you the ghost of?...I ought to be shut up for good...My senses is gone. I too old. I the oldest people I know" (Welty).
What is colloquialism?
200
Attributing human-like qualities to inanimate objects.
What is personification?
300
"The slender expressive fingers...came forth and became the piston rods of his machinery of expression" (Anderson).
What is metaphor?
300
"...the man was singularly handsome...there was an original, almost bizarre quality about the general's face" (Connell).
What is characterization?
300
The dangers of prejudice and fear
What is "Once Upon a Time"?
300
"In a house, in a suburb, in a city, there were a man and his wife who loved each other very much" (Gordimer).
What is parallelism?
300
Two unrelated elements placed close to one another for the sake of comparison.
What is juxtaposition?
400
"...past cabins sliver from weather, with the doors and windows boarded shut, all like old women under a spell sitting there" (Welty).
What is simile?
400
"Have you ever seen a lame animal...? That is the way my Maggie walks. She has been like this, chin on chest, eyes on ground, feet in shuffle..." (Walker).
What is characterization?
400
Persevering love
What is "A Worn Path"?
400
"...the alarm set up wailing against the screams while the bleeding mass of the little boy was hacked out of the security coil with saws, wire-cutters, choppers, and they carried it" (Gordimer).
What is imagery?
400
The author's attitude toward the characters or story.
What is tone?
500
"In the darkness he could not see the hands and they became quiet" (Anderson).
What is personification?
500
"...a fat little old man waked nervously up and down. Across a long field...he could see the public highway along which went a wagon filled with berry pickers returning from the fields. The berry pickers, youths and maidens, laughed and shouted boisterously" (Anderson).
What is juxtaposition?
500
The danger of blindly following
What is "The Lottery"?
500
"The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green" (Jackson).