Figurative Language Quizlet
Test your knowledge of various literary devices at this visual quizlet. Add three new ones of your own!
"Heat Lightning" by Robert F. Carroll
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"Thus I Refute Beelzy" by John Collier
CONTROL & ALIENATION IN SOCIETY
What impact does society have on the way we behave?
How has public acceptance (or alienation) had a clear impact on the characters in these stories?
How have the rules and expectations of society influenced behaviour? Provide an example for each work.
What will happen to these individuals in a society when rules / regulations are taken away?
What impact does society have on the way we behave?
How has public acceptance (or alienation) had a clear impact on the characters in these stories?
How have the rules and expectations of society influenced behaviour? Provide an example for each work.
What will happen to these individuals in a society when rules / regulations are taken away?
"Thus I Refute Beelzy" by John Collier
View the story by clicking on the image above, or listen to the audio version, read by Vincent Price, at this youtube link.
1. What are your first impressions of Little Simon when you first meet him? How do his solitary nature and interests strike you? In what ways have your impressions changed by the end of the story?
2. Characterize Big Simon as a product of his post-WW II baby boomer generation. Consider how the following help to demonstrate Big Simon's single-minded nature:
a. his profession
b. his ideas about 'liberal' child-raising
c. his treatment of his wife
d. his views of the older ways of child raising vs his actions toward Little Simon
3. a. Who is Mr. Beelzy? How do we know?
b. Given the more 'liberal' and secular nature of North American society in the late 1960s, what comments might Collier be making?
4. Consider your own friends and your own place in our current society. If you had friends who were interested in taboo elements in society, how would you approach the subject? What steps might you take in order to aid your friend?
1. What are your first impressions of Little Simon when you first meet him? How do his solitary nature and interests strike you? In what ways have your impressions changed by the end of the story?
2. Characterize Big Simon as a product of his post-WW II baby boomer generation. Consider how the following help to demonstrate Big Simon's single-minded nature:
a. his profession
b. his ideas about 'liberal' child-raising
c. his treatment of his wife
d. his views of the older ways of child raising vs his actions toward Little Simon
3. a. Who is Mr. Beelzy? How do we know?
b. Given the more 'liberal' and secular nature of North American society in the late 1960s, what comments might Collier be making?
4. Consider your own friends and your own place in our current society. If you had friends who were interested in taboo elements in society, how would you approach the subject? What steps might you take in order to aid your friend?
Short Story Options
"It's a Good Life" by Jerome Bixby
"The Destructors" by Graham Greene
"Charles" by Shirley Jackson
"Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Bad Seed - One Act Version" by Maxwell Anderson
"The Landlady" by Roald Dahl
"The Destructors" by Graham Greene
"Charles" by Shirley Jackson
"Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Bad Seed - One Act Version" by Maxwell Anderson
"The Landlady" by Roald Dahl
Read your selection and prepare the following:
- a 100 word summary for your story
- one essential quote from the story - how does this quote relate to plot, characters, themes, and / or symbols?
- what does the story indicate about the darkness of humans, based on the central characters?
- a 100 word summary for your story
- one essential quote from the story - how does this quote relate to plot, characters, themes, and / or symbols?
- what does the story indicate about the darkness of humans, based on the central characters?
The Happy Zombie Sunrise Home by Margaret Atwood & Naomi Alderman (Wattpad)
Read the excerpts available for the ongoing novel.
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" A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner
Faulkner himself modestly referred to ["A Rose for Emily"] as a “ghost story,” but many critics recognize it as an extraordinarily versatile work. As Frank A. Littler writes in Notes on Mississippi Writers, ‘‘A Rose for Emily’’ has been ‘‘read variously as a Gothic horror tale, a study in abnormal psychology, an allegory of the relations between North and South, a meditation on the nature of time, and a tragedy with Emily as a sort of tragic heroine.’’ (http://www.enotes.com/rose-emily/)
SOUTHERN GOTHIC LITERATURE
"The Southern Gothic movement in literature brings the atmosphere and sensibilities of the Gothic, a genre originating in late 18th century England, to the American South. As early Gothic writers used the genre in part to criticize what they saw as the moral blindness of the medieval era, so Southern Gothic writers deal with their own past through Gothic tropes. The Southern Gothic is unusual as a genre in that it is significantly limited to a certain geographical space. Many of the most notable American authors of the 20th century wrote in the Southern Gothic tradition, and the genre can be seen in music and film as well.
Southern Gothic literature builds on the traditions of the larger Gothic genre, typically including supernatural elements, mental disease, and the grotesque. Much Southern Gothic literature, however, eschews the supernatural and deals instead with disturbed personalities. Southern Gothic is known for its damaged and delusional characters, such as the heroines of Tennessee Williams' plays. Instead of perpetuating romanticized stereotypes of the Antebellum South, Southern Gothic literature often brings the stock characters of melodrama and Gothic novels to a Southern context in order to make a point about Southern mores.
Southern Gothic literature often deals with the plight of those who are ostracized or oppressed by traditional Southern culture - blacks, women, and gays, for example.... William Faulkner's .. "A Rose for Emily" (1930) brings the recurrent Gothic theme of unrequited love leading to madness to a Southern town in which the disapproving residents narrate in a single voice." (http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-southern-gothic-movement-in-literature.htm)
Create a song, video, trailer, comic, game, game booklet, board game, scrapbook, or comparison essay that includes "Thus I Refute Beelzy". Due:
See rubric in file below.
SOUTHERN GOTHIC LITERATURE
"The Southern Gothic movement in literature brings the atmosphere and sensibilities of the Gothic, a genre originating in late 18th century England, to the American South. As early Gothic writers used the genre in part to criticize what they saw as the moral blindness of the medieval era, so Southern Gothic writers deal with their own past through Gothic tropes. The Southern Gothic is unusual as a genre in that it is significantly limited to a certain geographical space. Many of the most notable American authors of the 20th century wrote in the Southern Gothic tradition, and the genre can be seen in music and film as well.
Southern Gothic literature builds on the traditions of the larger Gothic genre, typically including supernatural elements, mental disease, and the grotesque. Much Southern Gothic literature, however, eschews the supernatural and deals instead with disturbed personalities. Southern Gothic is known for its damaged and delusional characters, such as the heroines of Tennessee Williams' plays. Instead of perpetuating romanticized stereotypes of the Antebellum South, Southern Gothic literature often brings the stock characters of melodrama and Gothic novels to a Southern context in order to make a point about Southern mores.
Southern Gothic literature often deals with the plight of those who are ostracized or oppressed by traditional Southern culture - blacks, women, and gays, for example.... William Faulkner's .. "A Rose for Emily" (1930) brings the recurrent Gothic theme of unrequited love leading to madness to a Southern town in which the disapproving residents narrate in a single voice." (http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-southern-gothic-movement-in-literature.htm)
Create a song, video, trailer, comic, game, game booklet, board game, scrapbook, or comparison essay that includes "Thus I Refute Beelzy". Due:
See rubric in file below.
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