Topic 7




Topic 1: American Literature After The Civil War


Topic 2: W.E.B. Du Bois And Effective Arguments


Topic 3: Logical Fallacies And The Progressive Era


Topic 4: Writing An Argumentative Essay


Topic 5: Modernism (Part 1)


Topic 6: Modernism (Part 2)


Topic 7: Identifying The Speaker In Modernist Poetry


Topic 8: The Lost Generation


Topic 9: The Southern Renaissance


Topic 10: The Harlem Renaissance


Topic 11: Postmodernism


Topic 12: Civil Rights And Multicultural America


1. Can you explain the tone of the poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock?

overwhelmingly melancholy







2. What is an absolute phrase?

group of words that modifies an independent clause as a whole
Allusions: an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
Similes: a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g. as brave as a lion ).







3. What is an absolute phrase?

group of words that modifies an independent clause as a whole