For Monday: One More O'Connor

A Good Man Is Hard to Find

And ATS

Essay Prep

Things to review, focus on, brush up on before Monday 12/7:

In both Poe and Faulkner:

Ideas of isolation/society
Inevitability of death
Role of sanity/insanity
Role of obsession
The symbolism in these stories

For Wed 12/9

Good Country People

The Lottery

For Wed 12/1

Don't worry about these questions, just do our ATS

The Lottery

Levels of Abstraction

Levels of Abstraction (Level 1 Details)

Homework for 11/16

Homework:

1.)    Read “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe in your anthologies, ATS.

2.)    Find a poem from an American author that you like, that is an appropriate length for our “opening writing,” that you can be prepared to lead discussion about (feelings, story, language line.) Email title and author of the poem to me before our next class.

3.)    In class essay 11/16! Whooooo! Be prepared to discuss the idea of the individual vs. society in Melville and Chopin. The idea of the female and male identities in these works, and a little Melville vs. Chopin. 

Literary Elements!

Literary Elements

Tara:

Allegory

Aphorism

Characterization

Doppelganger

Foreshadowing

Kennings

Onomatopoeia

Polysyndeton

Symbol

 Krystal:

Alliteration

Archetype

Chiasmus

Ekphrastic

Hubris

Litotes

Oxymoron

Portmanteau

Synecdoche

 Sydney:

Allusion

Assonance

Circumlocution

Epilogue

Hyperbaton

Malapropism

Paradox

Prologue

Synesthesia

 Ashlee:

Amplification

Asyndeton

Conflict

Epithet

Hyperbole

Metaphor

Pathetic Fallacy

Puns

Syntax

Abby:

Anagram

Authorial Intrusion

Connotation

Euphemism

Imagery

Metonymy

Periodic Structure

Rhyme Scheme

Theme

James:

Analogy

Bibliomancy

Consonance

Euphony

Internal Rhyme

Mood

Periphrasis

Satire

Tone

Isabell:

Anastrophe

Bildungsroman

Denotation

Faulty Parallelism

Inversion

Motif

Personification

Setting

Tragedy

Jason:

Anecdote

Cacophony

Deus ex Machina

Flashback

Irony

Negative Capability

Plot

Stream of consciousness

Understatement

Nicole:

Anthropomorphism

Caesura

Diction

Foil

Juxtaposition

Nemesis

Point of View

Suspense

Verisimilitude