Vocab
Something that will end, like resources that will run out.
A gift from God or divine intervention.
What is providence?
This is the person who wrote the piece of literature if it's non-fiction or the person telling the story in fiction.
Who is the speaker?
This tells us that the figure Tom meets in the swam is the devil.
What is, he has red eyes, is covered in soot, and has a red sash?
This story included many elements of Gothic literature, like grotesqueness, life progression, and a dark setting. The most grotesque part was definitely Homer Baron's dead body rotting into the mattress.
What is "A Rose for Emily?"
All powerful
What is omnipotent?
Trifling
What is unimportant or trivial?
This is what is going on at the time the piece was written.
What is the occasion?
Don't take shortcuts and being greedy can lead to misery are two of these from The Devil and Tom Walker.
What are themes?
This is why the men in town had to use lime to cover up the smell.
What is Homer Baron's corpse was rotting?
What is omniscient?
King George's _________ toward the people living in the New World made them rise up against him and fight in the Revolutionary War.
What is tyranny?
This is who the piece of literature was written for.
Who is the audience?
The people of Tom Walker's time believed that God sent these to punish them for their sins.
What are natural disasters?
These are what Olaudah Equiano was talking about when he said he wished he could be as free as "the inhabitants of the sea."
Who are the sea creatures or fish?
Moved into your personal space
What is encroached?
If something is arduous, it is this.
What is hard?
This is the mood established by the piece of literature.
This is the storm that Patrick Henry was talking about when he said that a storm was approaching.
What is the war with the British?
Equano's slave narrative gave readers their first glimpse into this part of the slave trade.
What is The Middle Passage?
ample
What is having enough or plenty?
Depending on yourself for your own happiness means you are this.
What is self-reliant?
This is why the piece of literature was written.
What is the purpose?
He is depicted as a kind gentleman.
Who is Death?
These are the stages of life that Death shows the speaker in "Because I Could Not Stop for Death."
What are childhood, adulthood, elderly, and death?