Potpourri
This term refers to the associations that are connected to a certain word or the emotional weight of the word.
What is connotation?
This sub-genre focused on the historical realities of a region, namely slavery, racism, and patriarchy.
What is Southern Gothic?
“...the joy of life streamed with such ardent passion from his throat that for the onlookers it was not easy to stand the shock of it. But they braced themselves, crowded round the cage, and did not want ever to move away.”
What is "The Hunger Artist"? Franz Kafka
Thinkers of this literary movement felt that logic and reason were paramount and that advances in science would ultimately bring good things to the world.
What is the Enlightenment?
This type of narrator has access to all the thoughts and experiences of all characters in the story.
What is a third-person omniscient narrator?
This author's great great grandfather was a judge at the Salem Witch Trials.
Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?
This poet wrote a poem about his father's often unappreciated contributions to the household.
Poet and poem title.
Who is Robert Hayden, "Those Winter Sundays"?
The meaning of interpretations of a fictional work that the author had in mind when he or she was creating it.
What is authorial intention?
During this literary movement, coffee shops became a central hub for people to gather and debate controversial subjects.
What is the Enlightenment Era?
The position of the candelabrum displeased me, and outreaching my hand with difficulty, rather than disturb my slumbering valet, I placed it so as to throw its rays more fully upon the book.
But the action produced an effect altogether unanticipated. The rays of the numerous candles (for there were many) now fell within a niche of the room which had hitherto been thrown into deep shade by one of the bed-posts.
What is "The Oval Portrait"?
During this era, people viewed nature as a healing power and a refuge from the artificial constructs of civilization.
What it the Romantic Era?
This point of view does not allow the narrator to dip into the heads of any of the characters.
What is third-person objective?
This author lost his mother and his wife to tuberculosis.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
This poet was a 13th century Sufi mystic.
DAILY DOUBLE
Who is Rumi?
This type of narrator is often frightening and may have sinister motives.
What is the intentionally unreliable narrator?
What is Realism?
“He was pale as death, anxious and absorbed, and hung over the furnace as if it depended on his utmost watchfulness whether the liquid which it was distilling should be the draught of immortal happiness of misery.”
What is "The Birthmark"? Nathaniel Hawthorne
This literary movement was a reaction against the scientific thought of Enlightenment thinking.
What is Romanticism?
Something that represents something else - usually something physical that represents something abstract.
What is a symbol?
This author wrote a 45-page letter to his father that was never delivered.
Who is Franz Kafka?
This poet wrote about her favorite teacher in 6th grade.
Poet and poem title
Who is Sharon Olds, "Mrs. Krikorian"?
Elements of this genre of literature include the ideas of propaganda being used to control citizens of society and citizens living in a dehumanized state.
What is dystopian?
This literary movement came from a combination of Romanticism and the Gothic.
What is Dark Romanticism?
"The few hours for rest he spent hewing and hacking with his blunt knife, never speaking, until his watch came again,—working at one figure for months, and, when it was finished, breaking it to pieces perhaps, in a fit of disappointment."
What is "Life in the Iron Mills"?
This literary movement sub-genre placed its emphasis on human fallibility and sin and felt that even good men and women drift toward sin and self-destruction.
What is Dark Romanticism?
This type of narrator can, in some cases, be a child or outsider who believes they are telling the truth but are not fully aware of the circumstances.
What is the unintentionally unreliable narrator?
This author was known as the hermit novelist and is known for shocking and sometimes hilarious stories.
Who is Flannery O'Connor?
This poem is about making your way through the world in the way you see fit, despite what other people say.
Poet and poem title.
Who is Mary Oliver, "The Journey"?
This term refers to ways in which an author might reveal a character through thoughts, words, or deeds.
What is indirect characterization?
What is Realism?
"He asked her if a. man was made for money, or what. He asked her what she thought she was made for but she didn't answer, she only sat rocking and wondered if a one‑armed man could put a new roof on her garden house."
What is "The Life You Save May Be Your Own"?
This literary movement no longer saw the progress and growth in the world. Instead, it focused on the decay and alienation of the individual.
What is Modernism?
This element of writing is important because it filters everything in your story.
What is point of view?
This author's works largely focus on the effects of technology upon society.
Who is Ray Bradbury?
This poet constructed his own poem from the first two lines of someone else's poem.
Poet and poem title.
Who is Billy Collins, "Litany"?
This term reflects the general feeling or atmosphere that a piece of writing creates within the reader.
What is mood?
During this literary movement, characters were often looked upon as human beasts, whose lives were governed by forces of heredity, instinct, and passion.
What is Naturalism?
“He was not a bad-looking young man though he had on a bright blue suit and yellow socks that were not pulled up far enough. He had prominent face bones and a streak of sticky-looking brown hair falling across his forehead.”
What is "Good Country People"?
The buzzword of the Enlightenment Era, defined as a belief in human equality, especially with respect to social, political, and economic affairs
What is egalitarianism?
A narrator who is confined to what is experienced, thought, or felt by a single character.
What is a third person, limited narrator?
This author is considered a pioneer of literary realism.
Who is Rebecca Harding Davis?
This poet was the first Black American appointed as consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress.
Poet and poem title
Who is Robert Hayden?