World Literature Exam 3

Kincaid

Girl (Antigua, 1978)

Xun

Diary of a Madman (China, 1918)

Woolf

A Room of One’s Own (Britain, 1929)

Elliot

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (USA/ England, 1915)

Akhmatova

Requiem (Russia, 1963)

Heaney

Digging (Northern Ireland, 1964)

Trethewey

Enlightenment (USA, 2012)

Soyinka

Death and the King’s Horsemen (Nigeria, 1934)

frame narrative

a story within a story

diary

a journal or record that takes

vernacular

the way people actually speak an everyday language

feminism

advocacy for women’s rights and equality

Shakespeare

english playwright and poet, renowned for his works

modernism

writers interest in breaking free from the past

dramatic monologue

poem that has a particular speaker and has a silent listener

requiem

a song or poem composed for the repose of the dead

great purge

the period in the 30s when Stalin was sending people who were in opposition of him to camps

preface

a short, introductory essay written by the author that appears at the beginning of a book or poem

speaker

the voice behind a poem

vocation

a job or career that is referred to as a calling or purpose

Thomas Jefferson

Is a founding father but also exploited people (having slaves)

Monticello

Thomas Jefferson’s house in Virginia

British empire

when the British took over the Yoruba people

postcolonisim

a critical approach that analyzes the cultural and political legacy of european colonialism

short short story

a short story that is about 1 page

imperative voice

tone expressed used to express direct commands or instructions