Themes
What is a theme?
The moral or lesson of a story
Name 2 modern authors
Ex.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ezra Pound
What other era is Post-Modernism closely related too?
Modernism
Name two post-modern literary techniques
ex.
Unreliable narrator, Intertextuality, Free Indirect Discourse, Metafiction, Minimalism, Maximalism, etc.
Define what the modes of persuasion are
strategic and rhetoric classification of a speaker or writer's appeal to their audience
How do you determine the theme of a story?
1. Identify the story plot
2. Identify the way the story uses characterization
3. Identify the primary conflict of the story
Henry David Thoreau
Name the Post- Modern author that wrote "Long Walk to Forever"
Name the writing technique that makes the reader aware of the fictional nature of what they are reading
Metafiction
Define ethos
focused attention on the writer or speakers' trustworthiness.
What is the difference between main idea and theme?
Main idea is what the story is about and theme is what you are supposed to learn from the story.
Name two Harlem Renaissance writers
Langston Hughes, Claude McKay
How do you identify postmodernism in literature?
Rejection of classic writing techniques, criticism of technology, metafiction, criticism of man's actions towards nature etc.
ex.
Simple language, biblical allusions, plain, religious focus, etc.
define pathos
focuses on evoking emotion from the audience
What movie has the theme man's destruction of nature
The Lorax
This female writer is known for a confessional type of writing
Sylvia Plath
Name three post-modern authors
ex.
Kurt Vonnegut
David Foster Wallace
Ray Bradbury
Name the writing technique that is defined as the mixing of actual historical events with fictional events without clearly defining what is factual and what is fictional
faction
Define logos
appeals to the audience's sense of reason or logic