Poetry
TPCASTT stands for?
What is, Title Paraphrase Connotation Attitude Shift Title Theme?
the way authors developed characters
What is CHARACTERIZATION?
"All my life, Marie-Laure, I have been the one carrying the keys. Now I hear them jangling in the mornings, when they come for us, and every time I reach in my own pocket, only to find it empty."
What is ELEGIAC (elle-uh-jeye-ic) (expressing sorrow), MELANCHOLY (depressed, dejected, sad)?
Name that 1 Lit. term:
Reinhold von Rumple is (blank) character, while Celie is a (blank) character?
What is a FLAT CHARACTER and a DYNAMIC CHARACTER?
Write a thematic statement for All the Light using the subject - identity
All the Light We Cannot See is a novel about identity. It shows (universal thematic statement).
the narrative voice of the poem
a well-known story, event, person, or object that makes a comparison in the readers minds
What is an ALLUSION?
"No chanting no singing no silk banners no bands no trumpets no mother no father no slick-fingered commandant dragging a finger across his back. The city seems utterly still, as though everyone is listening, waiting for someone to slip."
What is TENSE (pessimistic, suspenseful, nervous)?
Name that Lit. term:
LINDNER You see—in the face of all the things I have said, we are prepared to make your family a very generous offer …
BENEATHA Thirty pieces and not a coin less!
WALTER Yeah?
What is ALLUSION?
Write a thematic statement for All the Light using the subject - innocence
All the Light We Cannot See is a novel about innocence. It shows that (universal thematic statement).
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and asleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.” HINT: punctuation
What is enjambment?
meaning implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly
What is CONNOTATION?
"Do you know what happens, Etienne...when you drop a frog in a pot of boiling water?...It jumps out. But do you know what happens when you put the frog in a pot of cool water and then slowly bring it to a boil? You know what happens then?...The frog cooks."
What is BITTER (hating, malicious, resentful, rancorous)?
Name those 2 Lit terms:
"...dying sunflowers so tall that they seem like trees. The stems have dried and stiffened, and the faces bob like praying heads..."
What is PERSONIFICATION and SIMILE?
Write a thematic statement for The Color Purple using the subject - rebirth
All the Light We Cannot See is a novel about rebirth. It shows that (universal thematic statement).
the speaker addresses something or someone that cannot answer, something nonliving or inanimate.
What is apostrophe?
evokes certain feelings or responses in readers through words and descriptions
What is MOOD?
"Madame Manec snaps open the door of the icebox. Marie-Laure can hear her rummage through a drawer. A match flares; a cigarette lights. Soon enough a bowl of undercooked potatoes appears before Marie-Laure. She feels around the table top for a fork but find none."
What is AUDACIOUS (bold, insolent)?
Name those 2 Lit terms
"Werner turns the fine-tune dial fractionally, and abruptly the voice booms into his ears, Dvee-nat-set...nonsense, terrible, nonsense, pipelined directly into his head; it's like reaching into a sack full of cotton and finding a razor blade inside..."
What is METAPHOR and SIMILE?
Write a thematic statement about The Great Gatsby using the subject - deception.
All the Light We Cannot See is a novel about deception. It shows that (universal thematic statement).
"Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
What is juxtaposition?
human traits, ambitions, emotions, or entire behaviors to animals, non-human beings, natural phenomena, or objects
What is PERSONIFICATION or ANTHROPOMORPHISM?
"He puts his eye to street level, becomes a god looming over the Latin Quarter. With two fingers, he could pinch out anyone he chooses, nudge half a city into a shadow. Flip it upside down."
What is WRATHFUL (maniacal, angry)?
Name those 4 Lit. terms:
"'Is it right,' Jutta says, 'to do something only because everyone else is doing it?'
Doubts: slipping in like eels. Werner shoves them back."
What is FORESHADOW, SYNTAX, SIMILE and TONE?
Write a thematic statement for "A Raisin in the Sun" using the subject - adversity.
All the Light We Cannot See is a novel about adversity. It shows that (universal thematic statement).