• Literary Devices Simile (So sánh) likeas Metaphor (Ẩn dụ) Metonymy (Hoán dụ) Dùng khái niệm này để chỉ khái niệm khác Synecdoche (Đề dụ) Dùng toàn thể chỉ bộ phận Dụng bộ phận chỉ toàn thể Symbolism (Biểu tượng) Personification (Nhân hóa) Irony (Nói mỉa) Paradox (Nói ngược) Foreshadowing (Nghệ thuật báo trước) Hyperbole (Cường điệu, nói quá)
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Matching
cách nhân vật
Tone/Mood
Washington
Irving
humor, imagery, and satire (making gentle fun of something)
the first American writer to set his stories firmly in the United States even as
he poached from German or Dutch folklore
Rip Van Winkle
Freedom vs Tyranny
Constancy vs Change
Volunteerism
vs Work for profit
History vs Fiction
Rip Van Winkle:
kind-neighbor, simple, good- natured, obedient henpecked
husband
Dame Van Winkle: shrewing,
domineering, sharp- tongued, termagant, nagging
Henry
Wadsworth
Longfellow
anapestic and trochaic forms, blank verse, heroic couplets, ballads, and sonnets
Brahmin poet (A poet, bear the European-oriented viewpoints→retarde
d the development and progress of
The tide rises, the tide falls ( AABBA)
All about the process of birth-death-rebirth in the world
Man vs
Tone: a cold,
dark tone → peaceful, calm/ accepting, relaxing tone
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Stz 1: Regret Stz 2 Hopeless Stz 3 Hopefull Emily
Dickinson
short lines, typically lack titles, often uses slant rhyme as well
as unconventional capitalization and punctuation
Powerful and persistent figure in American culture
Innovative proto-modernist poet (nhà thơ tân thời tân tiến)
Hope is the thing with feathers (Alternative)
Hope: resides
in the hearts for good
It liberates us from despair and gives us the strength to move on
It only empowers us and in return demands nothing
Tone:
Optimistic, motivational and hopeful
Mood: no shift
in the mood, stayed
motivational, hopeful, encouraging, and positive
Nathaniel
Hawthorne
As a Dark Romantic, he used symbols and metaphors to teach lessons
His focus on the psychological is also typical of the Dark Romantic style, which he
one of the greatest American novelists, dark romantic, short stories writer, a master of the allegorical and symbolic tale
The Scarlet Letter
1 Sin and Punishment
2 Public judment and individual guilt
3 Feminine bravery
Hester Prynne:
beautiful, strong, kind, proud, but also humble
Always remains her dignity
Arthur Dimmesdale: A
Puritan minister the
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personification of
"human frailty and sorrow," is young, pale, and physically delicate
O Henry witty, plot-twisting
endings
American short stories writer whose tales romanticized the commonplace -
in particular the life
of ordinary people in NYC
O.Henry Award
The gift of the Magi
LOVE
Love and sacrifice Wise and Foolish in love
Della: adores her
husband, puts his needs before hers, and is kind, sweet and generous
Jim: a loving
husband Understand the true meaning of the gifts they have given each other is not what the gifts are, but what they represent
the greatest gift they have is each other
Robert Frost Setting from rural
life in New England
The simple beauty
One of America’s rare public literary figures, almost an artistic institution
The Road not taken (ABAAB)
Human beings are confronted with and
Mood:
Ambiguous and meditative
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sensitive,
observing spirit,
his quick
sympathies and
gentle
understranding all
revealed in simple
language that has
the tang and twist
of Yankee speech
Congress Gold Medal
defined by the choices they make
Literary Devices
Simile (So sánh) like/as
Metaphor (Ẩn dụ)
Metonymy (Hoán dụ) Dùng khái niệm này để chỉ khái niệm khác
Synecdoche (Đề dụ) Dùng toàn thể chỉ bộ phận/ Dụng bộ phận chỉ toàn thể
Symbolism (Biểu tượng)
Personification (Nhân hóa)
Irony (Nói mỉa)
Paradox (Nói ngược)
Foreshadowing (Nghệ thuật báo trước)
Hyperbole (Cường điệu, nói quá)