Literary Lessons
This is a literary technique in which something has a deeper meaning attached to it.
What is symbolism/a symbol?
This type of character stays the same throughout the course of a work of literature.
What is a static character?
A person or group of people who establish a colony outside of their home country.
What is a colonizer?
In order to correctly cite, one must put these two lings in a parenthetical after using a piece of evidence.
What are author's last name and page number?
The definition of the word "palpable"
A feeling so strong, that it is like it can be physically touched.
When an author TELLS you something about a character's personality.
What is direct characterization?
A type of character that experiences major changes.
What is a dynamic character?
A goal that Chinua Achebe had in writing the novel Things Fall Apart.
What is:
- Dispel stereotypes about Africa/Africans
- Tell a story from an African perspective
- Push back against European narratives about Africa
The elements of a TE/EA structure paragraph.
What are topic sentence, evidence, explanation, and analysis?
The definition of the word "irate"
What is very angry or upset about something?
The lesson or message that one gets from reading a work of literature.
What is theme?
An object or idea with symbolic meaning that recurs in a work of literature.
What is motif?
What is the White Man's Burden?
The three main things that should be included in an introduction paragraph for an academic essay.
What are hook, background information, and thesis statement?
Very thin, as from suffering or starvation.
What is "emaciated"?
A literary figure who sees the root of his or her own downfall.
What is a tragic hero?
The emotional setting of a piece of literature, or how the reader feels while reading.
What is mood?
The idea that the world should be looked at from a European perspective, that the European perspective is most important.
What is eurocentrism/eurocentric?
When writing by hand the title of a novel should be THIS, when typing, it should be THIS.
What are underlined and italicized?
Looking dirty and disheveled.
What is "bedraggled"?
When an author deliberately contrasts two things together in literature.
What is juxtaposition?
The most common fatal flaw of a tragic hero.
What is hubris and/or excessive pride?
The idea that we should look at other cultures in their own context and not judge them by our own cultural standards.
What is cultural relativism?
The way to introduce your evidence in a way that makes sense for the reader, and so that it fits the sentence.
What is context/contextualizing?
Feeling or showing anger or annoyance at what is perceived as unfair treatment.
What is "indignant"?