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AP Literature Important Dates

AP Literature Important Dates. Kate Chopin’s The Awakening. Historical and Background Information. Essential Questions. How does literature help us understand ourselves and others? How has writing become a communication tool across the ages? Standards: ELACC11.

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AP Literature Important Dates

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  1. AP Literature Important Dates

  2. Kate Chopin’s The Awakening Historical and Background Information

  3. Essential Questions • How does literature help us understand ourselves and others? • How has writing become a communication tool across the ages? • Standards: ELACC11

  4. Grand Isle, Louisiana

  5. Literary Devices in Chapter 1

  6. Key Literary Devices in Chapter 1 • Symbolism/foreshadowing: green and yellow parrot repeating over and over, “Go away! Go away! For God’s sake!” • Symbolism: wedding rings • Imagery:Local Color (mysterious and exotic; resort South of New Orleans; Creole lady in white vs. Catholic lady in black) • Foreshadowing: Edna’s interaction with Robert; Mr. Pontellier’s reaction to Edna; Zampa

  7. Key Literary Devices in Chapter 1 • Allusions: • Grand Isle: is a town in Jefferson Parish, LA located on an island; the island is at the mouth of Barataria Bay where it meets the Gulf of Mexico. • Zampa: opera 1stperformed in Paris on May 3, 1831; the opera concerns Zampa, an immoral pirate whose wicked career ends when he is dragged to his death in the sea by a marble statue of a lady he had once betrayed. • CheniereCaminada: popular vacation resort in LA Gulf of Mexico; hit and destroyed by hurricane in 1893

  8. Grand Isle

  9. Grand Isle

  10. ChêniéreCaminada

  11. ChêniéreCaminda • sss • a • One such newspaper read: • The population of CheniereCaminada island is 1471. Of these 696 only are now living; 779 are dead. Historic CheniereCaminada is no more. The first effects of the storm were felt between 4 and 5 p.m. on Sunday. Everyone apprehended that something terrible was about to happen. … There was one avenue of safety, and that was to seek the upper stories of the houses, but even that chance for escape was lost when the wind and waves combined shook the frail habitations, which rocked to and fro and creaked and groaned under the repeated attacks of the furious elements. Soon the houses were being demolished, wrecked and carried away. The wind shifted to the southeast, and for hours shrieked with redoubled fury. Above the thundering voice of the hurricane could be heard the despairing cries, the groans and the frantic appeals for help of the unfortunate victims. (65) • Mass graves had to be dug for people as well as livestock, and the relief effort from New Orleans and surrounding areas proceeded as quickly as possible. • Fifty-four miles from New Orleans and surrounded by water, help for CheniereCaminada was hampered by the distance and water that made it such an effective hideaway for Edna Pontellier and Kate Chopin.

  12. ChêniéreCaminada • Destroyed by Hurricane in 1893 • More than 800 people died

  13. ChêniéreCaminada • ttp://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Cheniere+Caminada+The+Awakening&view=detail&id=B814E956FA976178C545FF6E568A6C569249B99E

  14. Local Color features in Chapter1 • New Orleans and Creole trappings • Yellow and green parrot who speaks French, Spanish, and unknown language • Resort south of New Orleans • Quadroon nurse (the offspring of a Mulatto and a White; a person who is one-quarter Black) • Creole lady in white shouting orders vs. Catholic lady walking demurely (modestly/reserved) in black telling her beads (prayer; Roman Catholic devotion to the Virgin Mary)

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