4th Quarter Exam in Reading 9

• • 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.