Literature of War
What book did Lincoln contribute to starting the war?
Whose mother died at a very young age?
When did Bierce leave home?
What was the age of 15
What three things caused Bierce to be so angry
What was losing his sons, wife left him, and he witnessed rampant corruption
Hint at what is to come?
What is foreshadowing
What sounded the death knell of Romanticism
What is the Civil War
Who did Lincoln marry?
Who is Mary Todd?
What age was Bierce when he joined the military
What is 19
Who tried to bribe Bierce?
What was the Union Pacific Railroad
When the author tell the reader what a character is like?
Direct characterization
Writing moved from novels to what?
What is newspapers
Why would Abraham Lincoln spend so much time perfecting each line?
He wanted each speech to be perfect for his intended audience, and use the least amount of words for the maximum amount of impact
What three things did Lincoln and Bierce have in common besides writing during the war?
Both lost multiple sons who died, fought to end slavery, and both were shot in the head
What about his writing revealed his frustration with life?
When the reader figures out what a character is like by inference
What is indirect characterization
What Romantic emphasis obviously ended with the war?
What is the divinity of man
What did Lincoln say his number one objective was?
To save the union
How many comendations were awarded to Bierce for his courage under extreme circumstances?
What did Bierce say would be a pretty good way to die?
To be stood up against a Mexican stone wall and shot to rags
When what you expect is NOT what happens
Situational Irony
Lincoln, Bierce, and Frederick Douglass
What did Lincoln say his paramount objective was not?
To end or save slavery
What were two of Bierce's Nicknames later in life
Bierce is considered to be the first to write what?
Sardonic literature/dark humor
A type of parallelism that emphasizes two contrastive meanings in two similar expressions. In other words, two similar phrases reveal opposite meanings
What is Antithesis