Themes
Message of "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
Religion and fervent following of God is the only way to live
Puritan culture, Anne Bradstreet poems, Johnathan Edwards sermons, pamphlets on being a Godly person
Colonial era or Early American Writings
The narrator's perspective in a text
point of view
the way a text is put together
structure
I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.
Langston Hughes
How amazing America is.
This group of writers, including Beat poets, found comfort in chaos. They wanted readers to ask questions about what was true and whether there was a reality everyone experienced.
Post-modern
Define folk art
Art that extolls normal, every day people and ideas, sometimes from self-taught artists
Define high art
Artistry that relies on widely accepted techniques, imitates previous mastery, taught from specific institutions
I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear,
Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong,
The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam,
The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work,
Walt Whitman
In "Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," what themes did the author want to share?
That the South should pay for the crimes it committed, even if they were trying to escape them.
The culmination of The Great Migration and a burgeoning African-American culture in big cities.
The Harlem Renaissance
What is stated is different than what is meant
Verbal irony
The audience knows something the characters do not
Parris, pressed, turns on her: And what shall I say to them? That my daughter and my niece I discovered dancing like heathen in the forest?
The Crucible, Arthur Miller
The idea Americans chase that exemplifies prosperity, leisure, and liberty.
The American Dream
Post-Great Depression-era Southern Writing that evaluated all that was "grotesque" in the South
Southern Gothic
Moral or lesson the author wants readers to take away from the text
An idea the author addresses over and over in a text
topic
"How it Feels to be Colored Me": Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me
Zora Neale Hurston
What message did WEB Dubois want to convey in his writings about "Double Consciousness"?
That African Americans had a dual perspective that would sometimes be in conflict, with race, ethnicity, and US citizen.
Writers espoused the virtue of nature and a life not driven by capitalism, around 1850s
Transcendentalism or naturalism
All the things you associate with a word
connotation
Another term for a play
Drama
Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality.
Emily Dickenson