Literary Devices
giving human qualities to abstractions or objects
personification
"To be, or not to be: that is the question."
Prince Hamlet from Hamlet
Name two Harlem Renaissance poems.
"Harlem", "The Negro Speaks of Rivers", "Mother to Son", "Incident", "Yet I Do Marvel"...
The segregation laws and practices in the U.S. South were named after which character?
Jim Crow
What animal is central to Orwell's Animal Farm?
pigs
the use of a vague or pleasant expression to avoid mentioning something unpleasant or that might offend
euphemism
"Prejudice always obscures the truth."
Juror 8 from 12 Angry Men
Name two works seen in class that deal with racial injustice.
When They See Us, A Lesson Before Dying, Separate but Equal, 12 Angry Men...
During which centuries did Shakespeare live?
16th-17th
What genre of literature was popularized by writers like Edgar Allen Poe, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, and Oscar Wilde?
when an author blends different human senses to describe something
synesthesia
Beatrice from Much Ado About Nothing
Name one way in which Romeo and Juliet and Much Ado About Nothing are similar and one way in which they are different.
-Both involve tricking people, faking death, love stories, etc.
-Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy whereas Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy.
When and where did the Harlem Renaissance take place? What population movement did it coincide with?
-Harlem, New York City
-mostly the 1920s and 30s
-The Great Migration
According to Margaret Atwood, what genre of literature does The Handmaid's Tale belong to?
speculative fiction
a work of fiction which contains a reflection upon fiction; when a narrator calls attention to the fact that s/he is telling a story
metafiction
"But people will do anything rather than admit their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot."
Offred from The Handmaid's Tale
Name two works seen in class that deal with class differences.
"The Garden Party", Billy Elliot...
In what decade does Billy Elliot take place and who was prime minister at that time?
the 1980s
Margaret Thatcher
During what historical period does The Grapes of Wrath take place?
The Great Depression
when a writer gives an advance hint about what's to come
foreshadowing
"Forgive my hat."
Laura from "The Garden Party"
The following quote is from the author of which work studied in class:
"Before the Second World War I believed in the perfectibility of social man; that a correct structure of society would produce goodwill; and that therefore you could remove all social ills by a reorganization of society. It is possible that today I believe something of the same again, but after the war I did not."
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
Name at least one thing that Thurgood Marshall is famous for.
-As a lawyer, he fought against school segregation with the case Brown v. Board of Education (1954.
-He was the first African-American Supreme Court Justice.
In the U.S., what right was guaranteed through the 1973 court case Roe v. Wade until it was overturned in 2022?
-the right to abortion