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A Brief Review of…

A Brief Review of…. Taming of the Shrew Red Badge of Courage Harlem Renaissance Poetry Oedipus Rex a nd Fahrenheit 451. What does it mean to give someone a taste of their own medicine?. Characters and Plot. Sample questions.

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  1. A Brief Review of… Taming of the Shrew Red Badge of Courage Harlem Renaissance Poetry Oedipus Rex and Fahrenheit 451

  2. What does it mean to give someone a taste of their own medicine?

  3. Characters and Plot

  4. Sample questions 1. Kate still seems to hate Petruchio when Petruchio informs her father of their marriage plans. How does he explain her behavior? • He says that she will be more tame once they are married • He claims that she is just hungry and tired • He just shrugs his shoulders • He says that they have agreed that Kate will act like a shrew in public, but in private she really loves him. 2. How does Lucentio attempt to woo Bianca? • He gives her a note (gamut or musical scale) that says what his real identity is and what his intent is. • He dresses up as a French tutor. • He treats her like a princess and gives her whatever she wants. • He pretends to translate Latin and tells Bianca he loves her.

  5. American Realism 1865-1910

  6. Characteristics of Realism 1 - Detailed following of reality 2 - Character emphasized over plot 3 - Ethical decisions at root of the story 4 - Complexity of human emotion and temperament shown 5 - Social status or class distinguished 6 - Realistic events in plot

  7. Red Badge of Courage • How do these elements of Realism come through in the Red Badge of Courage?

  8. Sample questions  What are the thoughts Henry struggled with before the 1st battle? Have any of the other soldiers thought the same thing before their battles? Instead of using character’s names, Crane refers to them by their description. Why? The tattered man keeps asking Henry a question that bothers him. What does he keep asking?

  9. The Harlem Renaissance 1920’s & 1930’s

  10. Attitude of the Times • Artistic expression • Racial pride • Social and political equality • Times led to great appreciation and awareness of African American culture

  11. Poetry explication • 1. Begin by summarizing the content of the poem. • 2. Identify the speaker, tone, poetic devices. • Poetic Devices: • Imagery, metaphor, simile, apostrophe, personification, alliteration, etc.

  12. Short answer questions We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,-- This debt we pay to human guile; With torn and bleeding hearts we smile, And mouth with myriad subtleties. Why should the world be over wise, In counting all our tears and sighs? Nay, let them only see us, while We wear the mask. We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries To thee from tortured souls arise. We sing, but oh the clay is vile Beneath our feet, and long the mile; But let the world dream otherwise, We wear the mask! Is “We Wear the Mask” a poem of inspiration and encouragement or one of sorrow and lament? Why?

  13. Oedipus Rex By Sophocles

  14. Themes • Sight, Seeing, Light • Darkness, Blindness, Night • Riddles, Mysteries, Prophecies • Triple Crossroads/ Past, Present, Future • Sin, Guilt, Pollution • Retribution, Justice, Atonement

  15. Sample questions At the beginning of the play, what has Oedipus already done to deal with the plague? • sent Creon to the oracle at Delphi to find out why this has happened • offered lambs and bulls in sacrifice • banished Teiresias from the land • all of the above 2. Creon brings news that the plague has been caused by • the failure of the Thebans to sacrifice to the gods • divine anger over Oedipus' incestuous marriage • the military aggressiveness of Thebes • the unpunished murder of King Laius

  16. Sample questions • What has mostly replaced reading in the people’s lives? • Television • Games • Hockey • Discussions 2. What book does Montag bring to Faber? • “Dover Beach” • Aristotle’s works • A Tale of Two Cities • The Bible

  17. Quote id • “Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy.” • “The girl? She is a time bomb. The family had been feeding her subconscious…”

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