Zusammenfassung der Ressource
English Midterm
- Works
- Navajo Origin Legend
- Viewed the winds as a source of life
- Winds=Breath
- Worshiped Nature
- Showed the creation of the first man and first woman
- Earth on the Turtle's Back
- Personification
- Gives the animals
human traits
- Determination
and Compassion
Anmerkungen:
- If you are perceived as weak, determination and hard work will bring you where you want to go.
- Nature
Anmerkungen:
- nature can be good for us, do not harm nature, use it for your benefit but also give back to the earth as well and do not harm it.
- Interesting Narrative of the Life
of Olaudah Equiano
- Made society face the cruelties
of slavery and contributed to
the banning of slave trade.
- Descriptive,
horrifying journey
on the slave ships
- To My Dear And Loving Husband
- Last line
captures
central idea
Anmerkungen:
- "That when we live no more, we may live ever"
Her poem was a way to immortalize her husband's love for her and her love for her husband
- Title worded almost like a letter
Anmerkungen:
- Communicates not only to the world but also to her husband. Compares herself to other women. Seems like she's talking to her husband. Uses Apostrophe.
- Repetition- If ever, if ever, if ever
Anmerkungen:
- Wants to repeat over and over how much she loves him
- Puritan perspective
- Wants to show she's a good, religious wife
Anmerkungen:
- It shows belief in heaven and shows the reader that she is a good, Puritan wife
- Huswifery
Anmerkungen:
- Metaphysical Poetry
Anmerkungen:
- Classifies groups that share common characteristics using strong imagery and complicated plots.
- Conceits
Anmerkungen:
- Elaborate, unusual metaphors that compare unlike things.
Writing about housework, but not about real housework- actually about God and him.
- Seems like he's
talking about
housework, but
it's a metaphor
for relationship
with God
Anmerkungen:
- Giving imagery for religion- says he wants God to use him like a spinning wheel to make something God will be proud of.
- To His Excellence, George Washington
- Supports the Revolution
- Praises efforts of George Washington
- Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God
- Terrified listeners
- Sermon
- Described hell vividly; threatening
- Says it is only the power of God that hold
sinners above hell; people must change
their ways
- Crisis No. 1
- Series of essays by
Thomas Paine
- Read to soldiers in the
Revolutionary War
- Argued for independence
and freedom
- Speech to the Virginia Convention
- Argued for the
fight for full
independence
from Britain
- Says peaceful arguement didn't work, so what else is there to try?
- Patrick Henry
- "Give me
liberty, or give
me death!"
- Ben Franklin's Autobiography
- Created 13 virtues that he
wanted to obtain and a
daily schedule
- Moral questions
- What good
do I wish to
do today?
- What good
have I
done
today?
- Knows most will give up
when a task proves too
grueling- speckled ax
anecdote
- Gave up trying to obtain
all the virtues, but happy
he went through the
experience of trying to
do it
- Wanted moral
perfection
- Poor Richard's Almanac
- Aphorisms
- Short wise sayings meant for moral
instruction or practical advice
- The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls
- “The day returns, but nevermore
returns the traveler to the shore…”
- Shows that the earth
will keep turning even
after one is dead.
- Romanticism
- Exemplifies the ebbing of day and night
(day and night represent life and death)
- While it is talking about
death, the poem also
retains a sense of calm
- The rhyme pattern and
the meter adds to the
calming feeling of the
poem
- “soft white hands” as an analogy
for the sea foam and waves
- Thanatopsis
- Becoming one with
nature, nature will
always lift your spirits
- Death- uses sleep
as a metaphor for
death
- Making it seem
peaceful, a
natural process
- Blank verse makes it
sound more natural
- The Raven
- Evokes a feeling of fear
- Solitude-
narrarator is
alone
- Psycological torment
- Lenore
- Doomed character-
"nevermore" will she
return
- Hop-Frog
- Gothic Elements
- Macabre
- Remote
setting
- Malevolence
- Poetic justice
- King dies on chains, king used
to restrain Hop Frog
- The Devil and Tom Walker
- After selling soul, Tom
becomes a usury (lending
money at unreasonably
high interest rates)
- Poetic Justice-
deserved a
specific type of
punishment.
- Allegory-
everything
is
symbolic
- Highly archetypal
- Nature
- Natural setting
- Symbolizes leaving stress behind and
entering into a more simple space.
Anmerkungen:
- RWE equates this with youth
(innocence)
- Cast off- a person
"sheds" their years and
becomes anew in nature
- Transparent eyeball
Anmerkungen:
- not really there just a
disembodied thing who
is taking everything in
- He's there but it's not about him-
not self-centered, no ego.
- Put the experience first
rather than be obsessed with
yourself in the experience.
- Oneness- immersion
- Self-Reliance
- Live in an
authentic
way and
don't
conform
to society
- Individuality
- "Foolish
consistency"
- Doing something
just because other
people told you to
- Concord Hymn
- Battle of Lexington and Concord
- "Shot heard round the world"- synechdoche
- Rememberance of deaths
of ancestors
- Stylized
for more
formal
setting
- Those who fought in
battle are long gone
but memory lives on
- Walden
- Thoreau
warns against
the dangers of
commitment
- Wanted to prove that he could live
simply and purposefully
- Embraced life of solitude
and inward reflection
- Freedom in
simplicity
- Civil Disobedience
- Government is just a tool; the best
government is one that doesn't
govern
- Government imposes
on the people
- People must
demand respect of
the government
- calls for better
government
- Authors
- Edgar Allen Poe
- Born in Boston
- Could never escape from poverty. Miserable Life
- Gothic works
- His wife was only source of happiness.
- She died, leaving Poe
devastated. Inspiration for
doomed female characters
Anmerkungen:
- Doomed female characters-
Madeline (Fall of the House of Usher)
Lenore (The Raven)
Annabel Lee
- Shortly after his birth, he
was taken in by the family
of John Allan.
- Expelled from West
Point and the
Univirsity of Virginia
- Ben Franklin
Anmerkungen:
- Wrote Poor Richard's Almanac
Wrote his Autobiography
- Worked as printer through
teens and early adulthood
- Wrote parts of newspaper under
name "Silence Dogood"- wrote
letters satirizing life in Boston
- Successful scientist as well
- Bifocals, glass
armonica, and
lighting rod
- Also a
statesman and
diplomat
- Best
remembered for
career in politics
Anmerkungen:
- Anne Bradstreet
- Puritan upbringing
- 8 children,
illnesses, and
hardship
- Devoted spare moments to "unladylike"
occupation of writing
- Wrote the first collection of original poetry in colonial
America
- Wrote about feelings and joys of
everyday Puritan life
- To My Dear and Loving Husband
- Belief in heaven, attempts to show
reader she was a good Puritan
- Patrick Henry
- Talented
speaker
- Could move his
listeners easily.
- "Give me
liberty or
give me
death"
- Inspired colonists
to unite in effort to
win independance
from Britain.
- Voice of protest
Anmerkungen:
- powerful speech in opposition to the Stamp Act
- Opposition to
the Stamp Act
- Call to Arms
Anmerkungen:
- Speech to the Virginia Convention
- Powerful impact,
fed the spirit of
the Revolution
that led to the
signing of the
Declaration of
Independance.
- Terms
- Puritan
Plainstyle
- Simple
words,
everyday
objects, and
references to
God
- Meter
- The regular pattern of beats in a line
- Metaphor
- A comparison between two things;
saying that something is
something else, when really it isn't
- Simile
- A comparison between two things
using "like" or "as"
- Apostrophe
- Speaking directly to an
absent or dead person, or
to a thing
- Ex: The Author to Her Book
by Bradstreet
- Logos, Pahos, Ethos
- Ethos- ethical appeal,
speaks to ethical side of
people
- Logos- Logical
Appeal, appeals to
logic, fact, and reason
- Pathos-
appeals to
emotions
such as love
and fear
- Paradox
- Statement that
seems contradictory
but actually presents
a truth
- Elegy
- a poem of serious
reflection, typically a
lament for the dead
Anmerkungen:
- Anecdote
- A short and amusing or
interesting story about a real
incident or person
- Aphorism
- Short wise saying meant
for moral instruction or
practical advice
- Ex: Poor
Richard's Alamac
- Origin Myth
- A myth that tries to
describe the origin of some
feature of the natural
world
- Iambic Meter
- Iambic Monometer
- Dimeter
- Trimeter
- Tetrameter
- Pentameter
- Hexameter
- Alliteration
- Repetition of initial consonant sounds
- Synechdoche
- A saying that represents a larger piece
- "Shot heard round the world"
- Personification
- Figurative language in which an inhuman
thing or being is given human qualities
- Ex: Earth on Turtle's Back
- Hyperbole
- Extreme exaggeration
- Catalog Poem
- Brings together many different
images in a list format
- Tone
- The speaker or
author's attitude
towards a subject
- Theme
- Central Idea in a
work of writing
- Onomatopoeia
- the formation of a word from a sound
associated with what is named
- Charged Words
- Language that produces
an emotional response
- Archetype
- An idea
that is
expressed
in stories
frequently,
typical
- Irony
- Situational Irony
- Irony involving a situation in which actions
have an effect that is opposite from what
was intended
- Dramatic Irony
- Is normally in speeches or a
situation that is understood by the
audience but not by the characters
in the play; the audience knows
something the characters don't
- Literature Movements Or Periods
- Romanticism
- Gothic Writing
- Focuses on the dark or evil
aspects of people's lives
- Also very emotional but
has a lot of suspense and
deals with evil
- Edgar
Allen Poe
Anmerkungen:
- Characteristics
- Bleak or remote settings
- Macabre
or violent
incidents
- Supernatural elements
- Strong language with
dangerous meaning
- Hawthorne
Anmerkungen:
- Scarlet Letter
Minister's Black Veil
- Ministers Black Veil
- Literary and
artistic movement
- Nature as a source of truth
- Begins in late 18th century
- Emphasizes
feelings of emotion
over reason
- Optimism, adventurous,
imagination
- Colonial Period
- Age of Reason
- Enlightenment challenged Puritan beliefs
- Key Themes
- Europeans come to America to create ideal civilization
- Colonists learned to make wilderness productive with help of natives.
- United States arose from Enlightenment ideals
- Puritan Influence
- William Bradford
- Anne Bradstreet
Anmerkungen:
- To My Dear and Loving Husband
- Edward Taylor
- Johnathan Edwards
Anmerkungen:
- Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God
- Puritan, angry speaker
- Revolutionary Period
- Call to Arms
- Declaration of Independance
- To His Excellency George Washington
- Patrick Henry
Anmerkungen:
- Speech to the Virginia Convention
- American Renassiance
- Transcendentalism
- Loose knit group of writers
- Artists and
reformers in
1830-1840s
- Individual was at
center of the
universe
- Self-Reliance
- Independence
and
self-reliance
- Fireside Poets
- Chose uniquely
American settings
and subjects
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- James Russel Lowell
- John Greenleaf Whittier