Exam 1 - AMERICAN LITERACTURE

Compare and Contract Colonialism and Romanticism

Colonialism: Utilitarian writing; record keeping or travel logs; writing for a purpose. INVOLVES THE OTHER (colonists+ Native americans) The other: Colonists had two major things GUNS and PRINTING PRESS. Colonists would indoctrinate; eliminate; or marginalize the native American's which evidently destroy major parts of their culture. Iroquois Creation Myth is influenced on Colonialism towards end of story. God is a woman; connecting by nature and animals. Water is filled with monsters THE CELESTIAL TURTLE who helps god; GOD DIES. Analogy of heaven and hell; god and the devil. OBJECTIVE MOSTLY Romanticism: NOT UTILITARIAN; IMAGINATIVE WRITING poems, stories etc. STRONG EMOTIONS NOT JUST LOVE but anger, sorrow, jealously, guilt, madness. Rejects enlightment heart over mind. Human emotions run strong and deep than intellect; if not feeling very deeply and passionately why feel at all? Hella melodrama and obsessions. Struggle between good and evils which questions morality and mystery of human morality. Gothic aesthetic; including grotesque, supernatural, and fascinations of death. SUBJECTIVE ENTIRELY

Culture, Literary, and Political changes of Romanticism

Culturally: involves individual expression and experiences. More personal genuine values overall Literary: Not UTILITARIAN WRITING; very imaginative writing and expressive literature. Politically: emphasized HUMAN RIGHTS and CULTIVATION OF SELF; mostly contained abolitionists and that SLAVERY IS WRONG

What did edgar allen poe create?

Modern short stories!

Ideology

a set of cultural beliefs and normative behaviors

allagory

a story with two meanings; can be literal and symbolic/figurative

characterization

how the writer creates and develops characters' personalities

point of view

narrators view of events in the story; either 1st or 3rd person

What is Romanticism considered in literacture?

the 1st flowering

diction

the authors word choices

exposition

the beginning of the story; setting the reader's expectations in the beginning

Canon

the literature body that represents or promotes ideology

What type of role does edgar allen poe invent?

the logician hero; solves problems through logic alone

Theme

the main message of the story; can be moral, symbolic, or literal

define theme and define the themes of hawthorne

theme is the main message of the story; hawthorns theme is about a loss of faith; a universal aspect that evil and good are human nature; judge not les you be judged; it is easy to have faith when not questioned

denumount

tying together of loose ends (COMES AFTER CLIMAX AND BEFORE RESOLUTION)

ambiguity

unclear meaning in a story

Give 2-3 literary terms and use terms to explain 2 different stories of Edgar Allen Poe

1. Ambiguity- 2nd cat in black cat; WE DONT KNOW IF THE CAT WAS ACTUALLY REAL OR NOT. It is implied to be ambiguous as the cat appeared in the climax of murdering his wife but disappear for several days after the murder had been done. Only then we see the cat again after the police find the body. It is implied to be ambiguous as the narrator went mad and it is possibly Pluto coming back from the dead messing with his head. It is also seen in the Tell-Tale Heart where the narrator is losing it with the beating heart underneath the floorboards. In which we know that he couldn't take it anymore and revealed the body to the police. It is ambiguous as it does specify whether the heart was actually beating or not; more leaning towards the narrators madness as he was the only one who could've heard it due to the guilt of killing the old man. 2. Tone- in both of these stories poe uses his experience with death as a way to reflect the psychological madness and guilt of the narrators of both the black cat and tell tale heart. The tone in both stories tends to shift from a unsettling calmness to a full blown hysteric episode that mirrors their descent into madness. In a way, the similar tone in both stories remind of me of the saying "same shit, different day" since they are both one in the same just with different violent acts (cutting out the eye of the cat and the murder of the old man). These two stories carry the unsettling example of gothic horror.

3 ways of characterization

1. what the character says 2. what the character does 3. what other characters say about them

Describe: A Description of New England

It is a Utilitarian travel log where John Smith promotes people to visit the New Land by promising wealth and land. He uses analogy's in the description in which people are able to plant vines and gardens (owning Land) and at the time if you owned land you could also vote which means you had POWER. Thus, LAND= POWER. He also reports in the description imminent wealth with fish by selling and eating it. Where he quotes you can work 3 days a week for 1 hour and be profitable. He also notes by people coming over to have land and wealth they are building a COLONY. Thus with setting their roots in the new land with "many different skill sets" they are able to build a COLONY.

Colonialism 3 groups

Jamestown Virginia Settlers, Native American Tribes (Iroquois), The Puritans

Who invented the MOVABLE PRINTING PRESS

Johannes Gutenberg

the other

a cultural concept that is anything that disrupts behaviors and culture which is either punished or excited

irony

a difference or discrepancy between appearance and reality