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Soldier͛s Home----------------------------Ernest Hemingway
Main characters: Harold Krebs
Setting: Oklahoma
He comes back from war but not treat like a hero (because he comes years after), He͛s stuck in
his childhood. Doesn͛t do much but lay around the house. He comes back from the war
drastically changed.

Luck-----------------------------------------Mark Twain
Main characters: Clergyman, Scoresby
Setting: London, Crimean war.
Scoresby is an English military hero and total idiot who triumphs in life through good luck. At
the time of the Crimean war Scoresby is a captain. Despite his complete incompetence,
everyone misinterprets his performance, taking his blunders for military genius, and his
reputation is enhanced with every false step he makes.

Story of an hour---------------------------Kate Chopin

Main characters: Mr. and Mrs. Mallard, Josephine (Mrs. Mallard͛s sister), Richards (Mr.
Mallard͛s friend)
Setting: takes place in a single hour in American home 19th century
A woman has a heart condition and hears news of her husbands death in a train accident. She͛s
sad but she feels free. It was a mix-up and her husband came home to find her dead from a ͞Joy
that kills͟.

The Other Two----------------------------Edith Wharton

Main characters: Mr. Waythorn, Mrs. Alice Waythorn, Haskett, Gus Varick, Lily Haskett
Setting: New York City
Mr.Waythorn marries a woman with 2 ex husbands and when her daughter gets sick, one of her
husbands starts visiting the house. He also bumps into her 2nd husband on a crowded bus and
asks͛ for his help with a business transaction. (all about awkward situations)

Young Goodman Brown-----------------Nathaniel Hawthorne

Main characters: Young Goodman brown and his wife Faith, Deacon Gookin, Devil figure
mystery man who meets him in forest,
Setting: Salem, Mass
Goodman Brown kisses his wife Faith goodbye and goes into a forest to see many of his fellow
towns people (community of God- fearing puritans) and church members having some sort of
witches Sabbath. He sees his wife there also; he tells her not to ͞look up to heaven and resist
the wicked one͟ and as soon as he says this, he finds himself alone. Wonders if he dreamt it, he
was never the same. Was a sad and gloomy man and died that way.
The Chrysanthemums--------------------John Steinbeck
Characters: Elisa Allen, her husband Henry, man driving busted wagon
Setting:pSalinas Valley of California
Elisa is so proud of her Flowers (the Chrysanthemums). She talks about how she has ͞planters
hands͟. The man asks her for a job to do to make some money. She gives it to him. They talk
and she gives him some seeds and a pot. The man leaves and she goes out with her husband.
She tells him she doesn͛t want to go see the fight and she hides her face and cries like an old
woman.

The Lesson---------------------------------Toni Cade Bambara

Characters: Miss Moore, (Narrator Sylviaa smart mouthed black girl from NY)Big Butt, Fat Butt,
Fly Boy, June bug, Mercedes
Setting:NYC
Miss Moore is an educated Black woman. She wants to educate the kids in the neighborhood.
?too much to write! Long story sorry guys Î

The Lady with the Dog-------------------Anton Chekhov

Characters: 40 year old man Dmitri Guruv, Anna
Setting: Moscow
Dmitri is not pleased with his wife and has several love affairs. One days hes eating at a publig
garden and he begins to pet a womans dog (Anna) to strike up convo. Shes married, shes
unhappy. They have an affair. They see much of eachother during the week. She eventually
goes back to her home town. He goes there and sees her at a theater show with her husband.
There he confesses his love for her.


*p Acrostic: Where the 1st letter of each line spells a word, usually using the same
words as in the title
*p Limerick: 5 line poem that is comedic
*p Couplet: Shortest distinct form of closed, two lines of equal rhyme and length
*p Haiku: From Japan, very restrictive, has 17 syllabus, 5-7-5 pattern
*p uatrain: Most common stanza block, 4 line uatrain, basic component of
traditional sonnets and ballets
*p Light Verse (Nursery Rhyme): Playful poetry

 
*p Setting is the natural, manufactured, political, cultural, and temporal
environment, including everything that characters.
*p A symbol represents an idea, quality, or concept larger than itself.
*p Various settings may be symbolic

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*p Allegory: Like a symbol ʹ as it transfers and broadens meaning
*p Parable: Greek -p

 ʹ it is short, simple allegory with a moral or religious
bent. [Mostly associated with Jesus]
*p Myth: Greek ʹ m
, a story or plot. A traditional story that embodies and
codifies the religious, philosophical, and cultural values of the society in which it
is composed.
*p Fable: Latin - i  
, it is a story or narrative ʹ often about animals that possess
human traits
*p Poiein: ͞To create or make͟


   

*p ͞Tone: is equated to attitude ʹ but not the attitudes themselves ʹ rather to the
techniques and modes of presentation that reveal or create attitudes͟
*p Setting : is the time, place, period in which the action takes place.
*p It can:
Vp >sed to organize a story
Vp May accentuate
Vp Create meaning
Vp >nderscore a work͛s Irony 
Vp Help the portrayal of the character
Vp Establish the atmosphere of the work
Vp When action is so close to setting, Direct the plot

*p Three basic types of settings:
Vp Public & Private
Vp Outdoor places
Vp Cultural & historical
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*p Cosmic Irony: Stems from the power of chance and fate. [kind of situational
irony]
*p Verbal Irony: Depends on the interplay of words. One thing is said, but the
opposite is meant.
*p Homicidal: General laughter against someone or something
*p Fratricidal: Laughter against someone close
*p Suicidal: Laughter against oneself
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*p Denotation: Of a word is the dictionary definition
*p Connotation: Of a word is the emotional overtones one feels when they
encounter the term
*p Metaphors: An imaginative comparison that makes use of the connotative values
of words. i.e. ʹ ͞My mind if a sieve͟ [impossible in reality]
*p Simile: Comparisons that show how two things that are not alike in most ways
are similar in one important way. Similes use the connective words ͞like͟ and
͞as͟. i.e. ͞That dog looks like a dust mop without a handle.͟
*p Extended Metaphor: An imaginative comparison worked out through several
lines of, or perhaps even an entire poem, accruing meaning as it goes along.
*p Personification: Makes a non-human thing sound like a human being.

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*p Birth/death: 1770 ʹ 1850 North England
*p Name of daughter (with Annette Vallon): Caroline
*p Received a bequest of 900 from: Raisley Calvert
*p When ÷ 

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pwas 1st published: 1798
*p Wordworth͛s sweetheart: Mary Hutchinson
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*p Date & place of birth: December 10, 1930 in Amherst, MA
*p Father͛s religious belief: devote Calvinist
*p Was Dickinson ever married: No
*p Poems written on folded sheets of stationary, bound by thread, was called:
Fascicles
*p How many poems (not including her letters) did she write: 1,789