For readers to “see that anybody can be a slave... And feel what that's like" - Butler.

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For readers to “see that anybody can be a slave... And feel what that's like" - Butler

Common Core Standards: RL 11.3: Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed). RL 11.5: Analyze impact of author’s choice of how to structure specific parts of the text. RL 11.6: Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the context and style of a text Tested Skills: Point of View Tone Theme Imagery Structure

LITERARY TERMS

Fiction whose imagined elements are largely possible with advancements in science (different than fantasy which doesn’t coincide with science)

fiction that often portrays fictional accounts or dramatization of historical figures or events.

Shows good and bad in everyone / every situation Shows life “as it really is” Focuses on the “truth”

Written in realistic DIALECT = How someone would have talked in that area and time

Point Of View Narrator POV (1 st or 3 rd, Limited or Omniscient) Also, Narrator or Authorial attitude towards a subject Dana (or Butler’s) attitude towards racism/slavery/prejudice The emotion word that captures the narrator’s or author’s attitude towards the subject Tone

Theme The theme of any literary work is the base topic or focus that acts as a foundation for the entire literary piece. The theme links all aspects of the literary work with one another and is basically the main subject. Vivid descriptive imagery, including symbolism, motif, metaphors, similes, and other forms of figurative language. Imagery

Structure How the author structures the story (in chapters or sections, through frame story or flashback) A flashback is a narrative technique that allows a writer to present past events during current events, in order to provide background for the current narration. Flashback

“Pre War” The South before the Civil War

- the abuse of power - the limits of traditional gender roles, - the repercussions of racial conflict. - People are products of their environments - Who is “good” and who is “bad” isn’t always easy to know

- Home - Whip - Education - Ownership - Female bodies (not their own)

Deep (subjective) questioning Discussing literature

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