Short Story Exam

“Young Goodman Brown”

Romantic

Araby

British Modernism

A Hunger Artist

British Modernism

Yellow wallpaper

Victorian/ Realism and Narutalism

Hills like white elephants

Modernism

Story of an hour

Realism and Naturalism

A goodman is hard to find

Postmodernism and Contemporary

Everyday Use

Postmodernism and Contemporary

Explicit narrative

directly communicated information to the audience

Implicit Narrative

Relies on clues and inferences to convey the story, requiring the auidence to interpret and draw their own conclusions

Bildungsroman

Moral growth, Example- Young Goodman Brown

Big Takeaways form literary movements

Most lit movements are reaction to/against previous movements, Heavily influenced by new technology + new mediums, Movements named after the fact, Reflect changing social attitudes + shifts in norms and values

3 types of Irony

Verbal, Situational, Dramatic

Direct Characterization

author tells the character's actual physical and mental traits, characteristics, abilitie

Indirect Characterization

author shows how character speaks, thinks, acts, or how other characters react to him.

Setting at the End of Araby

the lights in the hall turned off and the narrator gazes up into the darkness and seeing himself as a creature driven and derided by vanity… his eyes burning

Souther Gothic

literary genre in the early 19th century, has lots of irrational, horrific, thoughts and desires, dark humor

James Joyce - Araby

left Ireland and wrote the story to give the Irish readers a look at themselves through a polish looking glass, did not like the combination of Catholic ideology and British imperial capitalism in ireland

Charlotte Gilman - Yellow Wallpaper

Written about her own experience, her goal was to get her doctor to take back his rest cure for women

Ernest Hemingway- elephants

wrote on his honeymoon with his second wife who was catholic, won the noble prize in 1954

Kate Chopin - story of an hour

her work energized feminists, the theme of the story is autobiographical, although the details are not

Flannery O’connor - a good man

a Catholic from georgia, her stories are filled with grotesques and viloence

Alice Walker - Everyday use

inspiration of the story came from her own life, symbol representing the unrecorded tragedies and triumphs of Black women like her mother

Theme in Everyday Uses

• the themes heritage threads throughout the story like threads in Mama's quilts

Franza Kafka- A Hunger Artist

Died from lung tuberculosis