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  • Noun - Person, Place, thing, Idea

  • Verb - action

  • Adverb - Word that describes a verb or adjective

  • Preposition - Shows how subject is related to another word in the sentence

  • Adjective -  Word that describes noun or pronoun

  • Interjection - Interrupts sentence

  • Conjunction - Joins two clauses, phrases, or sentences

  • Pronoun - replaces a noun





Barn Burning by Devin:



  • Author:

    • William Faulkner

  • Genre:

    • Modernist

      • Thoughts are nonlinear

      • Internal monologue

      • Shows the myriad of thoughts and feelings that a person has

    • Southern Gothic

      • Based in the South

        • Plantations, decaying towns, southern dialect, and behaviours, slave quarters

      • Write complex characters that expose the problems of society

      • Plots linked to violence, poverty, and racism

    • Social Commentary

      • Chatter of the people by the people

  • Characters

    • Colonel Sartoris Snopes














Dumbest man in the army notes by Ben: 

Author: Vernon J. Sneider 

Life: graduated from notre Dame and entered the army and was a commander in tobaro japan 

Genre: Social commentary 

Characters: 









TGOW- ROd

  • Author - John Steinback

  • Genre - 

    • Realism

      • Attempt to represent familiar things as they are

      • Depicts everyday/commonplace events

      • Events are plausible

    • Social Commentary

  • Main characters 

    • TOM JOAD

    • The Joads











Yellow Wallpaper- Isaque Da Silva Ribeiro




  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  • Father left shortly after her birth

  • Genre: Gothic horror / Psychological Horror

  1. Gothic Horror = Battle between humanity and unnatural forces of evil.

Characters

  • The women in the wallpaper/ crazy wife (jane)

  • Husband (John)

  • The husbands sister (Jenny)

Themes













The Story of an Hour

 

  • (TSOAH)

  • Author 

    • Kate Chopin 

  • Genre 

    • Short Story, Social Commentary

      • Social Commentary: “Chatter of the people, by the people.” 

  • First Line of the Story: 

    • “Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband’s death.”



  • Main Characters:

    • MC: Louise

    • Louise’s Sister Josephine

    • Husband (who “died”) Brently

    • Husband’s Friend: Richards

  • Plot: 

  • Themes: Life is Never as Expected, Inherent oppressiveness of marriage

  • Know how to identify FIG. LANG.