The/A Tempest
The primary difference between Shakespeare's The Tempest and Césaire's A Tempest is...
Shakespeare portrays Caliban as villainous, while Césaire affirms his humanity and resistance
The tone of Trevor Noah's memoir is...
Humorous
What literary lenses did we discuss this semester?
Feminist, Marxist, Ecocritical, Psychoanalytic, and Postcolonial
What are audience appeals? And what do each of them do?
Ethos = credibility
Logos = logic/sense of reason
Pathos = emotion
How many cats do I have?
Three
The main topics in Césaire's A Tempest are...
Colonialism and Resistance
Trevor Noah views apartheid...
very negatively
What kind of lens does Césaire approach A Tempest with?
Postcolonial
When you're introducing a quote from a source with a full sentence, what punctuation should you use just before getting to the quote?
Where are my degrees from?
Western, CSU and currently I am in school at CU Denver
In Shakespeare's text, what is the primary reason for Prospero teaching Caliban his language?
To make him a slave
Why does Trevor Noah use humor in his memoir?
It allows him to tackle complex issues in a nuanced way.
Name each of these punctuation types:
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Comma, semi-colon, apostrophe, parenthesis, question mark, exclamation mark, period, colon, ellipses
What's my favorite holiday?
Halloween
Monstrous and subhuman
What is the actual meaning of the word genius here?
"The genius of apartheid was convincing people who were the overwhelming majority to turn on each other. Apart hate, is what it was. You separate people into groups and make them hate one another so you can run them all."
The system is extremely problematic, but it's effective because it enlists a huge number of people and makes them suspicious of everyone else.
Find the 10 errors:
You may no the meaning of "leap year," but has you herd of the leap second. In paris, a special groop of experts tracks the rotation of Earth from day to day. On December 31 each year, they may chose to add or subtract a second from clock time. It is necessary to add a leap second nearly onse a year on that day or june 30. All leap seconds since the first in 1972 have been aded to clock time. Subtractions are unlikely, but they are possible.
You may know the meaning of "leap year," but have you heard of the leap second? In Paris, a special group of experts tracks the rotation of Earth from day to day. On December 31 each year, they may choose to add or subtract a second from clock time. It is necessary to add a leap second nearly once a year on that day or June 30. All leap seconds since the first in 1972 have been added to clock time. Subtractions are unlikely, but they are possible.
What does Caliban change his name to in A Tempest? Why does it matter?
He changes his name to X. This signifies his rejection of Prospero's abuse.
Explain a Marxist reading of this text.