summary and title Flashcards
Novel
Hester Prynne, Pearl, Dimmesdale, Roger Chillingworth
Adultery
a lot of nature imagery
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Short story
man kills an old man
he get progressively more insane
repeated eye symbolism
repeated cautiously and nervous
a lot of senses descriptions especially sound
repeated heart symbolism
em dashes
stream of consciousness
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe
short story
Young Goodman Brown goes into the woods and sees everyone he views as holy worshiping the devil
symbolism: faith, pink ribbons, staff/serpent, goodman
a lot of religious imagery
ppl: Goodman Brown, Deacon Gookin, Faith, twisted traveller (devil)
Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
poem
dark
“one need not” repeated
far safer repeated
human minds can be haunted as we do not know ourselves
third person
One need not be a chamber by Emily Dickinson
poem
a lot of em dashes
descriptions of nature
repetition of the word mine
Before I got my eye put out by Emily Dickinson
poem
repetition of songs and music
many stanza starts with let me
making songs to unite all kinds of ppl in peace
first person
Songs for the People by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
poem
many stanzas stars with versions of you blame me
discusses the different expectations of men and women
first person
A Double Standard by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
american ideals
equality/all alike
very patriotic
poem
America by Walt Whitman
most lines start with The
describes multiple laboring jobs
repetition of singing/song
poem
I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman
words of power
glorification of America
repetition of I will
describes landscape
poem
For you O Democracy by Walt Whitman
Annabel Lee
repetition of love
boy in love with her and she dies
poem
Annabel Lee by Edgar Allen Poe
Preface
Idealizes America
political liberty is paramount
individuality is good
all deserve respect
preface to Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
philosophical writing
encourages individuality
developing ones own opinions
self empowerment
non conformity
rich figurative language
Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
speech
irony of the celebration of Fourth of July and slavery
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? by Frederick Douglas
Short story/auto biography
Master Hugh
young Fredrick Douglas learns to read by working at a ship yard and ‘tricking’ white children into teaching him
this makes him more despaired as he can now understand his position as a slave
Learning to Read and Write by Frederick Douglas
poem
pro abolition
talks about the value of reading
societal disapproval
stories of how slaves hid books
narrator is Chloe
Learning to read by Francis Ellen Watkins Harper
Edna Pontellier, Mr. Pontellier, Robert Lebrun, madame Ratignolle, Arobin, Mademoiselle Reisz
Edna hates her life as a mother and tries to leave her role but kills her self
novel
bird imagery
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
short story
the little one, Hom Hing, Lae Choo, James Clancy
Chinese immigrants have their son taken by customs officers, mother despairs, when he is returned he doesn’t recognize them
the sun as a metaphor
In the Land of the Free by Sui Sin Far
short story
Native American kids taken to a boarding school
become disconnected with their culture
eventually she becomes a great author
religious imagery, metaphors, apple metaphor
School days of an Indian girl by Zitkala-Sa
short story
John, Mary, Jennie, Jane
insanity
word creep
woman behind paper
woman has depression and gets slowly more insane as she is trapped in a room
The Yellow Wall Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gillman
short story
Mrs. Sommers
a woman is given some money and buys many extravagant things and acts as more upperclass than she is
while she has some economic autonomy it is finite
fleeting agency
temptation
sensual language, biblical
A Pair of Silk Stockings by Kate Chopin
Mr. Ryder, Mrs Dixon, Blue Vein Society, Liza Jane, Sam Taylor
Short Story
black man wants to propose to a woman but his wife from when he was a young man arrives searching for him
The Wife of His Youth by Charles W. Chesnutt
Clare Kendry, Irene Redfield, Brian Redfield, Margery, Junior, Ted, Gertrude, John Kendry,
Novel
two passing women one chooses white the other chooses black
Passing by Nella Larson
reflection
the difference between black lower and middle class
the feeling of black ppl wanting to be like white ppl
barriers of black people
The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain by Langston Hughes
