Midterm Prep Flashcards
(19 cards)
Born in Missouri 1835
Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain
Worked with his brother Orion
Mark Twain
Grew up in Hannibal Missouri
Mark Twain
Became an apprentice riverboat captain in 1856
Mark Twain
Wrote a book called Roughing it
Mark Twain
Wrote Innocents Abroad (1869)
Mark Twain
Wrote Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
Wrote Life On The Mississippi
Mark Twain
Wrote The adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Writing techniques:
Humorous accounts, tall tales
Dialect
SPeaking through persona, not through his own voice
beautiful, vivid descriptions of landscapes and scenes
Satire and irony
Mark Twain
Themes included:
The Mississippi
The natural beauties of landscape
Man’s inhumanity to man
Distrust of mog mentality
prejudice and race relations
Mark Twain
A term applied to literature which emphasizes a special geographical setting and concentrates upon the history, manners and folkways of the ara as these help shape the lives or behaviors of the charachters.
Regionalism
The speaker or narrator, as distinguished from the author, of a literary work. This is a a role, or mask writers take on the achieve needed distance from, and control over their material.
Persona
Writing that imitates the way people pronounce words, rather than spelling. So, somone writing in Texas dialect would use ya’ll rather than you all.
Dialect
Father was a practical minded lawyer who wanted his son to follow in his footsteps.
Edgar Lee Masters
Wrote criticaly of American small town life.
Edgar Lee Masters
Author of;
Spoon River Anthology
Edgar Lee Masters
Themes:
Stifling nature of American small town life
Lonliness
isolation
Edgar Lee Masters
