HUMM DISC WEEK 4
Lung Cancer 1
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR DISCUSSIONS: Your contributions should be thoughtful and developed. Answer all parts of the question and use concepts from the course materials. Use a professional style of communication, with attention to grammar, spelling, and typos; cite your sources.
1. FICTION & FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
Choose three of the pieces of fiction in the Learning Resources, identify the use of specific literary language in each, and explain how it expresses one of the character’s feelings or thoughts, functions to convey the mood of a character, or conveys the overall tone or theme of the story.
Make sure to include a specific quote from each piece of fiction and to use one interpretative tool from the Learning Resources or Module introduction that refers to figurative language in your analysis for each (for example, metaphor, simile, hyperbole etc.) in your analysis. Underline or bold any interpretative tools in your post.
Below are the required learning resources for this week.
Twenty-Four Suggestions for How to Read and Understand a Poem
This research article provides “Twenty-Four Suggestions for How to Read and Understand a Poem”
Edgar Allen Poe's "Tell Tale Heart"
In this short story from 1853, the protagonist struggles with his own sanity after committing a murder.
Poe, Edgar Allan. The Tell-Tale Heart. Project Gutenberg, n.d. EBSCOhost.
Richard Wright's "Savage Holiday"
Richard Wright (1908-1960) was an African-American writer who has been called the "father of modern African-American literature" and who is best known for his novel, Native Son, and memoir Black Boy. This is an excerpt from his novel, Savage Holiday. This is his only work with no black characters, explores psychological themes, and was considered experimental at the time.
Please read Part III, Chapter 11.
African American Literature Beyond Race, Richard Wright’s “Savage Holiday” http://ezproxy.umgc.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=1020868&site=eds-live&scope=site&profile=edsebook&ebv=EK&ppid=Page-__-173
Lucille Clifton's "Far memory"
Clifton, Lucille (1993). Far memory. Port Townsend: Retrieved from http://ezproxy.umgc.edu/login?url=https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.umgc.edu/docview/2141183575?accountid=14580
Lucille Clifton (1936-2010) was a contemporary African-American poet, educator, and children's fiction writer from Buffalo, NY who lived in Baltimore, MD towards the end of her life and taught at St. Mary's College of Maryland. Clifton's poems are known for their allusions, puns, and sparse punctuation. This poem alludes to elements from the Catholic religion to explore the self.
Anne Sexton's "You, Doctor Martin"
Sexton, Anne. (1981) You, Doctor Martin. Houghton Mifflin Retrieved from http://ezproxy.umgc.edu/login?url=https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.umgc.edu/docview/2141207133?accountid=14580.
Anne Sexton (1928-1974) was an American Confessional poet who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1967. She committed suicide in 1974. Her work is known for its autobiographical perspective on gender roles, mental health, interpersonal relationships, and death. This poem explores themes of both gender roles and mental health.
W.H. Auden's "A bride in the 30's"
Auden, W. H. (1994). A bride in the 30's. London: Faber & Faber. Retrieved from http://ezproxy.umgc.edu/login?url=https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.umgc.edu/docview/2153792624?accountid=14580.
W.H. Auden (1907-1973) was an English poet and is considered one of the most important poets of the Modernist literary movement. His work, like many Modernists, has an intellectual tendency and is expressive of the historical context of war and rise of totalitarianism in the first half of the 20th century. This poem expresses the tension between hope and the challenging political period of the early 1930s.
Charlotte Perkins's "The Yellow Wallpaper"
First published in 1892, this early feminist short story follows the narrator's descent into madness as reflected by the patterns she sees on the wallpaper in the room where she lives a restricted life.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. The Yellow Wallpaper. Project Gutenberg, n.d. EBSCOhost.
Nathanial Hawthorne's "Minister's Black Veil"
This allegorical 1836 short story describes what happens when a local minister takes to wearing a black veil over his face at all times.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel and Virginia University of. The Minister's Black Veil : A Parable. Generic NL Freebook Publisher, 1996. EBSCOhost
Nathanial Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown"
This short story from 1835 is set during the Salem witch trials and describes a young man's struggle with his faith after experiencing some unlikely events in the woods at night.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel and Virginia University of. Young Goodman Brown. Generic NL Freebook Publisher, 1996. The Modern Library of the World's Best Books. EBSCOhost.
Narrotology
This link “Narratology (literary theory)” offers an overview of how the narrative of literary works is studied to better understand how works of art express universal themes and can be related to humanity in general.
Poetry
This link defines poetry and provides a survey of historical literary movements within the genre of poetry.
Please refer to this study guide when you read, view and review the Learning Resources for this week. The terms, concepts and methods (sometimes called analysis tools) listed here are useful to properly answer the questions on the weekly quizzes and can be used when you are writing your Weekly Discussion Posts, Cultural Experience Reports and the Final Project Assignment for this class.
Some may seem elementary like rhythm and melody for music or brushstrokes and color for visual art, but each allows you to understand the artist representations and to further your understanding of each humanities area as you move forward.
Overview
· Read Twice
· Look Up Words
· Why were each of the Characters chosen by author
· literary language
· ordinary language
· Figurative language
· diction
· tone
· Symbolism
· setting
· atmosphere
· theme
“Literary Genres” https://literarydevices.net/genre/
· Genres
· Poetry
· Fiction
· Drama
· Prose
· Non-Fiction
“13 Essential Literary Terms” https://www.dictionary.com/e/s/literary-terms/#metaphor
· Metaphor
· Simile
· Analogy
· Hyperbole
· Allusion
· Euphemism
· Paradox
· Oxymoron
· Satire
· Onomatopoeia
· Alliteration
· Allegory
· Irony
“14 Literary Terms” https://www.oxford-royale.com/articles/literary-terms-english/#aId=ba65f844-2af6-466f-b41c-4a606277c9d4
· Iambic Pentameter
· Litotes
· Rhyming couplet
· Personification
· Onomatopoeia
· Alliteration
· Pathetic fallacy
· Metaphor
· Simile
· Aside
· Allegory
· Hyperbole
· Connotation
· Stream of consciousness
“Glossary of The Poetry Archive” https://poetryarchive.org/glossary/
· 100 + Terms, all of which can be used to talk about poetry in this class
“24 Suggestions for How to Read and Understand a Poem” http://ezproxy.umgc.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsjsr&AN=edsjsr.10.2307.811086&site=eds
· Check historical and personal circumstances of when the poem was written
· Study the title
· Find a summary
· Read the whole poem first
· How is the poem treated (figuratively, realistically, romantically, symbolically, satirically?
· Treat stanzas as paragraphs
· Write summaries of sections
· Watch punctuation instead of line breaks
· Pay attention to notes
· Use Dictionary for uncommon words
· Read Aloud several times
· Determine mood or tone (joy, sorrow, grief, faith, hope, certainty)
· Who is the I, the poet or a character?
· Study poet’s life
Kivak, Rebecca. “Narratology (literary theory)” Salem Press Encyclopedia of Literature, 2019 http://ezproxy.umgc.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.umgc.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ers&AN=87321079&site=eds-live&scope=site
· Plot
· Discourse
· Setting
· Fable
· Narrative perspective
· First (character engaged in the story)
· Second (character disengaged)
· Third (character presents more than one person’s perspective)
· Types of Narratives
· Linear
· Nonlinear
· Flashbacks
· Interactive
“Poetry” - Rholetter http://ezproxy.umgc.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.umgc.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ers&AN=114325116&site=eds-live&scope=site
· Epic Poetry
· Lyric Poetry
· Dramatic Poetry
· Meter
· Rhythm
· Troubadours
· Rhyme
· Sonnet
· Metaphysical poets
· Romanticism
· Modernism
· Harlem Renaissance
· Beat Movement