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| What is the Harlem Renaissance? |
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| A time period when African Americans were having a surge of art, literature, and music to promote their heritage. |
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| Writing style or belief that emphasizes the senses and is highly descriptive in order to paint a picture in the mind. |
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| Writing style or belief that shows survival of the fittest, genetics impacting a character or that an environment impacts a character beyond what he/she can control. Based upon Darwinism and the scientific concept is applied here in literature |
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| Writing style or belief that strives to show life as realistic or as actual as possible so that the character's life may be at times dull like our own. |
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| The good guy/gal in the story |
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| The bad guy/gal in the story |
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| The time and place in which a short story or novel takes place. |
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| The opposite of what a character says or the opposite of what is expected to occur to a character |
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| A scene that is from an earlier time in a character's life from the past that is explained as an interruption of real time events. |
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| Define Stream of consciousness |
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| A type of writing that strives to represent an inner character's mind |
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| What is Modern/Modernism in literature? |
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| The writing time period of now that may use intense vocabulary, modern technology, and authors that may still be alive. Generally considered to be from WWI forward. |
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| What is the Beat Generation? |
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| A group of poets and authors who felt as though society was against them (or beat them down) and they often wrote or lived their lives in protest against it. |
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| One thing or color that represents something else in literature |
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| The main idea behind an overall story/novel |
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| What a character or the reader should learn from the literature |
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| Something versus something else in literature, this may involve man vs. man, man vs. environment or society, and many other kinds of problems |
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| The highest point or greatest point of emotional intensity. After this point should be only falling action. |
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| What is Aesthetic distance? |
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| How close or far away the reader feels from the narrator or character/s |
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| When someone writes about him or herself |
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| All of our authors have biographies, where someone else researched and wrote information about them and their careers. |
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| A writing that shows an opinion and reflects understanding of a topic in about 2-5 pages |
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| A direct comparison of something to something else |
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| Poetry that is free of rhyme and rhythm |
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| The order of events in a short story or novel |
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| A writing that may ridicule weaknesses of a group or individual or make political fun of something. May have a biting tone |
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| Using like or as to compare two things |
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| The emotional feeling an author creates in a work of literature--this may change during segments |
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| What is Style in terms of literature? |
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| The way an author writes and what makes him or her unique in time period, manner |
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| Give 3 stylistic elements for Dalton Trumbo |
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| Used stream of consciousness, was blacklisted, wrote against the war |
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| Give 3 stylistic elements for ee cummings |
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| Didn't always use capitals, varied punctuation, occasional rhyme |
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| Give 3 stylistic elements for Ernest Hemingway |
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| Wrote like it's similar to a newspaper, more about what he is not writing, showed a new type of tragic American hero |
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| Give 3 stylistic elements for Langston Hughes and/or Countee Cullen |
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| Wrote during the Harlem Reniassance, easy to understand, wrote about the black's struggle for equality |
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| Give 3 stylistic elements for Jack Kerouac |
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| Was a beat poet, angry at society, used many vulgar terms or concepts in wriitng, strange imagery |
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| Give 3 stylistic elements for Jack Kerouac |
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| Was a beat poet, angry at society, used many vulgar terms or concepts in wriitng, strange imagery |
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| Give 3 stylistic elements for Ann Rynd |
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| Shows the triumph of the underdog, features people who are different than many in society, characters face great challenges |
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| Give 3 stylisic elements of Margaret Atwood |
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| She is a feminist, sarcastic, wrote about deep meanings and symbols to show equality for the female |
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| Give 3 stylisic elements of Margaret Atwood |
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| She is a feminist, sarcastic, wrote about deep meanings and symbols to show equality for the female |
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| Give 3 stylistic elements for F Scott Fitzgerald |
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| Wrote about the roaring 20's, often showed difficulties of people in relationships, emphasized differences in social classes |
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| Give 3 stylistic elements of Sylvia Plath |
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| Used strange images in poetry, wrote about her own depression and suicide, shows anger and frustration with men |
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| Give 3 stylistic elements of T. S. Eliot |
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| Fled to England as against American ideals, tried to find and keep his faith, wrote about dark and haunting landscapes after the WWI. |
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| Give 3 stylistic elements for Tim O'Brien |
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| Wrote about Vietnam, modern, combined various stories (some that may be true) along with his own autobiographical memories of the war |
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| Give 3 stylistic elements about Walter Dean Myers |
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| Wrote fiction about wars, African American emphasis, uses a lot of action and dialogue |
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| Give 3 stylistic elements for Stephen King |
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| Used vulgarity, often features a magical child or person, macabre (horror) fiction emphasis |
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| Give 3 stylistic elements of Robert Frost |
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| Classical themes and forms, emphasis on nature, famous American poet often cited and quoted |
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| Give 3 stylistic elements of Shirley Jackson |
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| Used shocking endings, wrote about common events in unusual ways, emphasis on the family |
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| Give 3 stylistic elements of Amy Tan |
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| Asian emphasis on her roots, conflicts in the family, often mother/daughter strain, can involve mystical events. |
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| Give 3 stylistic elements of Yvonne Thorton |
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| Wrote an autobiography, emphasis on strain of African American to survive in a racist society, emphasis on hard work ethic |
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| FINAL JEOPARDY QUESTION: Give an example of Realism from the video you created. |
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| Various, but should show whether or not the book was REALISTIC |
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| FINAL JEOPARDY QUESTION: Give an example of Naturalism from the book that you read individually |
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| Various: Must show influence of genetics (parents), environmental control, or survival of the fittest |
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| FINAL JEOPARDY QUESTION: Explain and give an example of a modern author who shows close aesthetic distance |
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| VARIOUS: But must show a close connection with the reader, as though feeling like the reader is in the story and very close to the central character/s (possible: Plath, King, Hughes, etc.) |
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