American Minimalism
The author of "Cat in the Rain"
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
The genre of a speech
What is
Non-fiction
a fiction genre
what is
short story
poem
novel
The famous New York Harlem Renaissance Jazz Club
What is
The Cotton Club
The required length of your essay for the exam (in words)
What is
Betweeen 900-1200 words
Ernest Hemingway's writing principal
What is The Iceberg Theory?
The writer of the speech " I have a dream" from 1963 (Full name)
Who is
Martin Luther King
A narrator that is outside the story and that knows everything about the characters and events in the story
What is
An omniscient narrator
The Name of Alain Locke's famous essay from 1925
What is
The New Negro (An Interpretation)
The structure of an analytical essay
What is
Five paragraphs
At least three minimalistic characteristics
What is
Easy vocabulary, short words, short sentences, short paragraphs, simple sentence structure, little action, little figurative language, minimal description of characters and setting, minimal background information, often written in the present tense, open ending, no resolution
The three modes of appeal
What is
Logos
Pathos
Ethos
A narrator whose credibility has been seriously compromised
What is
an unreliable narrator
The name of our guide in Harlem
Who is
Sheila
"The model" used when quoting from a text
What is
the PEE-model:
Point
Example
Explanation
Two world famous writers of minimalism (we have studied both of them)
Who are
Ernest Hemingway and Raymond Carver
Toulmin's model of argumentation
What is
Grounds -> (Qualifier) > Claim
Warrant -> (Rebuttal)
Backing
Three elements in a short story you can focus on in your analysis
What are
narration / composition/structure
setting / language
characters / Theme
Title
Name two famous writers from The Harlem Renaissance
Who are
Langston Hughes Zora Neale Hurston
Claude McKay James Weldon Johnson
Alain Locke
Three characteristics of informal language
What are
short sentences, incomplete sentences, paratactic structure, the use of fillers, slang, swearing, text message spelling, emoticons, smileys, exclamation marks, missing commas, repetitive sentences structure...
The two most obvious readings to use when analyzing minimalistic literature
What are
Reader-response Criticism
New Criticism (Theory)
Name five rhetorical features
What is
Alliteration, Amplification, Anaphora, Antithesis, Apostrophe, Assonance, Chiasmus, Epiphora, Hyperbole, Litotes, Metaphor, Personification, Polyptoton, Polysyndeton, Rhetorical question, Simile, Tautology, Triad
When analyzing a poem three things you can focus on when looking at form and structure
What are
shape / stanzas
rhyme / line
rythm
Name three famous poems from the Harlem Renaissance
What are
Harlem - If we must die - The Weary Blues - Let America be America again - I, too - Youth - Dreams - Lift Ev'ry Voice ...
At least three transition signals
What are
first, finally, however, in conclusion, on the other hand, as a result, when, although, and, but, another, additional, because of, in spite of, similarly, and, in addition, on the other hand, but, in contrast, for example, therefore, as a result, in conclusion