4th Quarter Exam in Reading 9

Cards (40)

  • Edna St. Vincent Millay (1920s) — an American poet and considered as one of America's most widely read and most beloved poets. She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923.
  • Love is Not All — A Sonnet written by Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • ➢    Edna St. Vincent Millay's poem “Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink,” affirms the fact that love cannot fulfill our basic human needs, yet it has an undefinable power.
  • Alliteration — when words that start with the same sound, especially those of consonant sounds, are placed close together in a phrase or a line.
    Examples: "pinned down by pain," "lack of love."
  • Repetition — a technique used by a poet to get a reader's attention to a certain idea or whatever it is that the poet wishes to share.
    Example: "Nor a slumber nor a roof against the rain;
    Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
    And rise and sink and rise and sink again"
  • Imagery — mental image, figure, or likeness of things produced by the words used by the poet.
    Examples: "a roof against the rain" , "fill the thickened lung with breath"
  • A Rose for Emily — It is the first short story of Faulkner to be published in a national magazine.
  • Yoknapatawpha County, a fictional country in Jefferson, Mississippi - like most of Faulkner's works, this short story is also set in _. It is created by Faulkner himself.
  • A Rose for Emily — A Short Story written by the American author, William Faulkner. It is about a quiet aristocratic woman (Emily) and the unveiling of her deepest secret.
    1. Emily Grierson – the mysterious old woman.
  • 2. Homer Barron – who mysteriously disappeared.
  • 3. Tobe – the black servant of Emily.
  • 4. Judge Stevens – the mayor who was hesitant to confront Emily about the stench.
  • 5. Colonel Sartoris – the previous mayor, dead for almost ten years, who remitted her taxes due to Mr. Grierson’s loans to the town.
  • 6. The four men – broke into Emily’s house and sprayed lime to extinguish the foul smell.
  • Gothic fiction — a literary genre that began in the late eighteenth century with distinctive characteristics from other genre.
  • Southern gothic fiction — refers to the subgenre of gothic fiction in American literature that takes place in the South America.
  • Dark Humor — southern Gothic features _ in the stories.
  • • Exposing the problems of society through the development of complex characters — southern Gothic follows the idea of _
  • Susan Glaspell — a journalist. Her stories appeared in different literary magazines such as Harper's and The Ladies' Home Journal.
  • July 1, 1876 — when was Susan Glaspell born.
  • Davenport, Iowa — where was Susan Glaspell born.
  • Des Moines Daily News - where Susan Glaspell worked for as a journalist.
  •  • Feminist writer — Glaspell is considered a _ on account of her works that deal with idealistic tales of strong and independent female protagonists.
  • Trifles, 1916 — a play by Susan Glaspell. It was also published as a short story entitled "A Jury of Her Peers."
  • Trifles —  A Play by Susan Glaspell
  • Setting of the play: Farm house
    1. Minnie Wright - The wife and suspected killer of the murdered John Wright. The abused wife who killed her husband due to the lost/death of the bird.
  • 2. John Wright - Minnie’s deceased husband, found strangled in his bed the day before the play begins. Abusive male who owned the farmhouse.
  • 3. Mrs. Hale - The wife of Lewis Hale and neighbor to the Wrights. She is the one who found the fancy box.
  • 4. Mrs. Peters - The Sheriff's wife, who is tasked with retrieving a few of Minnie’s belongings from the farmhouse. The one who noticed the bird cage with no bird.
  • 5. County Attorney (George Henderson) - The man in charge of the investigation.
  • 6. The Sheriff (Henry Peters) - The local lawman and husband of Mrs. Peters who arrested Minnie Wright.
  • 7. Lewis Hale - The neighboring farmer who discovered the murder.
  • Quilt - to sew the layers
  • Work of art — any ___, especially in literature, is considered as an artifact of a specific place in a particular time.
  • Scholars — for some ___, it is a reflection of thoughts, aspirations, imagination, and psyche of a society. Hence, it is a product of an amalgation of insights of the milieu.
  • United States — has been marked by two world wars during Susan Glaspell's time. It was also the onset of the economic boom that provided more jobs to American women.
  • Female authors — they produced literary works that deal with gender roles and power relationships between men and women.
  • Susan Glaspell’s Trifles — is considered as a voice of the author's historical context during the time it was written.