AP Language and Composition Midterm Review

Jazz Age (1920s-1930s)

The Great Gatsby

Modernism (1880s-1950s)

E. Cummings & VA Woolf

Post Modernish (1950s-20th Century)

The Poet X

Harlem Renaissance (1920s-1930s)

TEWWG

HR - AA out of south to

cities

HR - space for AA to gain

civil rights w art / lit

Zora known for

dialect

First town run by AA

Eatonville

Generations out of slavery

two

Modernism

stream of consciousness

The absurd

trying to make sense of everything through thinking

Post-Modernism

Failure of systems

Jazz Age Coined

F. Scott

Social Class

No middle class (working class)

Established Order

People Challenged

Era of Personal Indulgence

Led to self-destructive behavior

Prohibition

hard to enforce; created corruption, speakeasies, and gen organized crime

Rhetoric

Art of Persuasion

PASTA

Purpose, Audience, Subject, Tone, Author Bias

Rhetorical Analysis Thesis Statement

MUST include devices and defensible