English III

1. Can you define The Southern Renaissance?

rebirth of southern literature 1920s

2. What was “local color”?

The presentation in a story of the peculiarities of place/ the people who live there. Literature popular before southern renaissance/ local culture/entertaining

3. What made Southern Gothic a distinct sub-genre?

does not dwell on suspense and the supernatural, grotesque

4. How did Emily represent the Old South in “A Rose for Emily”?

Her unwillingness to accept the passage of time as she keeps the bodies of both her father and Homer Barron after their deaths. Society was changing every minute, but Emily's house remained like a symbol of the seventieth century.

5. How did the tax “deal” Emily made change, and why was that significant?

The tax shows Emily couldn’t keep up the pace that environment is changing but she could not.

6. What are critical lenses or critical perspectives?

Focusing on style choices, plot devices, and character interactions and how they show a certain theme.

7. How do critical lenses help a reader analyze literature effectively?

Using critical lenses allows us to peel back the curtain of a text and find the hidden

Topic 9

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