The Great Gatsby
This novella takes place in...
This novella takes place in East and West Egg, fictional islands off the State of NY, as well as the Valley of Ashes and New York City.
This novella takes place in...
...the Belgian-controlled Congo in Africa and the River Thames in England.
This comedic play was written...
Early 1600s (17th c)
What's the difference between TONE and MOOD?
See Ms R
What is Logos?
An appeal to logic.
"The Great Gatsby" offers a critical look at the _________, a period of economic prosperity and social change in America after _________.
"The Great Gatsby" offers a critical look at the Roaring Twenties, a period of economic prosperity and social change in America after World War I.
What does the novella aim to expose?
The novel exposes the brutality and hypocrisy of European colonialism in Africa, highlighting the exploitation of resources and the dehumanization of native populations
The play takes place in...
in the fictional land of Illyria. Illyria is a coastal region near the Adriatic Sea.
What does EXHORT mean?
To forcefully urge someone to do something.
What's the difference between CONNOTE and DENOTE?
See Ms R
Name 2 things happening in the US in the 1920s
19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote.
Women were also increasingly finding employment
Prohibition
Economic boom
Rapid urbanization
What is the structure of "Heart of Darkness"? Explain it.
Name all of the central characters.
Viola/Cesario and Sebastian
Duke Orsino
Countess Olivia
Siry Toby, Maria, Sir Andrew Aguecheek and Feste
Malvolio
What is ANAPHORA?
the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.
What's a EUPHEMISM?
A softer word in place of something more harsh.
What are the two narrative points of view in the novella?
First person limited (Nick Carraway)
Third person omniscient
What did Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe say about the novella?
He described Conrad's novella as "an offensive and deplorable book" that dehumanised Africans.
Why is the title significant?
The title of the play refers to the twelfth night after Christmas, which is the night before Epiphany. Epiphany is a religious celebration marking the time the three Magi brought gifts to the infant Jesus. Traditionally, Twelfth Night is a day of celebrations, frivolity, song and music, and an overall topsy-turvy spirit. People of different classes swap status.
What's a PARADOX?
Statement that at first seems true but is oppositional.
Name three types of structures for a literary text
See Ms Rankin
Tell me 3 things about F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Fitzgerald was raised in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Though an intelligent child, he did poorly in school and was sent to a New Jersey boarding school in 1911.
Despite being a mediocre student there, he managed to enroll at Princeton in 1913.
Academic troubles and apathy plagued him throughout his time at college, and he never graduated, instead enlisting in the army in 1917, as World War I neared its end.
Fitzgerald became a second lieutenant, and was stationed at Camp Sheridan, in Montgomery, Alabama. There he met and fell in love with a wild seventeen-year-old beauty named Zelda Sayre.
Zelda finally agreed to marry him, but her overpowering desire for wealth, fun, and leisure led her to delay their wedding until he could prove a success.
He abused alcohol and was frequently broke.
Tell me 3 things about Joseph Conrad.
Joseph Conrad did not begin to learn English until he was twenty-one years old.
He was born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski on December 3, 1857, in the Polish Ukraine.
When Conrad was quite young, his father was exiled to Siberia on suspicion of plotting against the Russian government.
After the death of the boy’s mother, Conrad’s father sent him to his mother’s brother in Kraków to be educated, and Conrad never again saw his father.
He traveled to Marseilles when he was seventeen and spent the next twenty years as a sailor.
He signed on to an English ship in 1878, and eight years later he became a British subject.
He took command of a steamship in the Belgian Congo in 1890, and his experiences in the Congo came to provide the outline for Heart of Darkness.
Conrad’s time in Africa wreaked havoc on his health, however, and he returned to England to recover.
Name and describe at least two language devices Shakespeare uses in the play for humorous effect.
puns
double entendre
innuendo
wordplay
Name and explain the 3 types of irony
Situational irony
Dramatic irony
What is a NEOLOGISM?
A made-up word, often for humorous effect.