Characters in The Awakening
A women that is in a love triangle that desires freedom and individuality
Edna Pontellier
A girl that is sexually and emotionally abused by her husband and husband
Celie
What is being discussed/ a topic.
Theme
The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities.
Symbolism
The main character
Protagonist
Leonce Pontellier
Celie's sister
Nettie
The writers attitude when writing the text.
Tone
Give a brief statement of the main points of (something).
Summarize
In literature, the location and time frame in which the action of a narrative takes place.
Setting
Edna's children
An abusive husband who emotionally and physically abuses Celie.
Mr.______
The way the reader feels while reading the text
Mood
In any narrative, a character who contrasts with another character; typically, a character who contrasts with the protagonist,
FOIL
Whenever people eat or drink together, it's _________
Communion
The man Edna truly loves
Robert
Mr._____ son
Harpo
The rewording of something to make it clearer and shorter.
Paraphrase
In the history of the United Kingdom, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.
The Victorian Era
The advocacy of women's rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes.
Feminism
The man that has a well-deserved playboy reputation, and he introduces Edna to various physical pleasures that Chopin leaves to our imagination.
Alcee arobin
A beautiful, vivacious, and flamboyant blues singer who is considered a “loose woman”.
Shug
A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.
Stanza
The event or occurrence that prompts rhetorical discourse; the exigence is that which begins the “cycle” of rhetorical discourse about a particular issue.
Exigence
Any set of circumstances that involves at least one person using some sort of communication to modify the perspective of at least one other person.
The Rhetorical Situation