FORGING NEW FRONTIERS UNIT 3 PART 2

LITERARY HISTORY MARK TWAIN STEPS OUTSIDE OF EUROPEAN THEMES AND WRITES ABOUT AMERICAN THEMES TWAIN IS CALLED THE AMERICAN BARD

THE MAN OF MANY NAMES THOMAS JEFFERSON SNODGRASS W. EPAMINANDOS ADRASTUS BLAB JOSH MARK TWAIN BIRTH NAME WAS SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS

NEW FRONTIER LIFE IN THE OLD WEST UNIQUE TIME AND PLACE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE GREATLY DIFFERENT FROM ANY OTHER LITERATURE PIONEERS PRAIRIES BITTER ELEMENTS OF YUKON

LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI STEAMBOATS RELIGIOUS REVIVALISTS CIRCUS PERFORMERS MINSTREL COMPANIES MINSTREL SHOWBOAT ACTORS CLEMENS GREW UP IN HANNIBAL, MISSOURI, WHICH IS ON THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER, AND THE PEOPLE AND THINGS HE SAW BECAME THE BASIS FOR HIS WRITING

CLOSING OF THE MISSISSIPPI 1861 – CIVIL WAR CLOSES THE MISSISSIPPI TO RIVER BOAT TRAFFIC

MARK TWAIN RIVERBOAT CAPTAINS USED TO YELL, “BY THE MARK, TWAIN.” REPORTER FOR VIRGINIA CITY NEWSPAPER BEGINS PUBLISHING SHORT STORIES DISTRUSTED TECHNOLOGY AND POLITICAL FIGURES

“AMERICAN” SPEECH WRITING USING THE WAY AMERICANS ACTUALLY SPEAK THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN CONTAINS WORDS THAT ARE NOT CULTURAL SENSITIVE TODAY, BUT IN THE TIME PERIOD WERE WORDS THAT WERE ACTUALLY SPOKEN AND ACCEPTABLE. THERE IS CONFLICT TODAY OVER THE NOVEL.

HUMOR HUMOR IS WRITING THAT IS INTENDED TO AMUSE INCONGRUITY – DIFFERENCES IN LOGIC OR DEGREE HYPERBOLE – EXAGGERATION OF DETAILS OR EMBELLISHMENT OF EVENTS BEYOND LOGICAL COMIC USES OF LANGUAGE – FUNNY NAMES SOCIAL COMMENTARY – CRITIQUE OF SOCIETY DIALECT – WAY OF SPEAKING THAT IS PARTICULAR TO A GROUP OF PEOPLE OR GEOGRAPHIC AREA

GREEK PREFIX MONO- ALONE, ONE, OR SINGLE THEISM = BELIEF IN GOD OR GODS MONOTHEISM = BELIEF IN ONE GOD LOGUE = SPEECH; SPEAKING MONOLOGUE = ONE PERSON SPEAKING LITH = STONE MONOLITH = ONE STONE (USUALLY LARGE) SYLLABLE = UNIT OF SOUND MONOSYLLABLE = ONE SYLLABLE

CONFLICT STRUGGLE BETWEEN OPPOSING FORCES INTERNAL – OCCURRING WITHIN THE MIND OF A CHARACTER EXTERNAL – OCCURRING OUTSIDE THE MIND OF THE CHARACTER CHARACTER VS. CHARACTER CHARACTER VS. SOCIETY CHARACTER VS. NATURE

TERMS SETTING – TIME AND PLACE OF THE ACTION IRONY – DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHAT IS SAID AND WHAT IS MEANT OR BETWEEN WHAT IS EXPECTED AND WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS DRAMATIC IRONY – CONTRADICTION BETWEEN WHAT A CHARACTER THINKS AND WHAT THE READER KNOWS TO BE TRUE

LATIN ROOT –PEND- TO HANG IMPENDING = IMMINENT, SOMETHING HANGING OVER THOSE WHO ARE AWAITING IT PENDULUM = AN INSTRUMENT THAT HANGS FROM A FIXED POINT SUSPEND = TO HANG SOMETHING FROM A SINGLE POINT PERPENDICULAR = AT A RIGHT ANGLE, ONE THING THAT HANGS ON ANOTHER PENDANT = A HANGING ORNAMENT, USUALLY ON A NECKLACE

INTRODUCTORY PHRASES AND CLAUSES A GROUP OF WORDS THAT ACTS AS A SINGLE PART OF SPEECH IS CALLED A PHRASE A GROUP OF WORDS THAT HAS BOTH A SUBJECT AND VERB IS CALLED A CLAUSE INTRODUCTORY PHRASES AND CLAUSES COME AT THE BEGINNING OF A SENTENCE IF THEY ARE MORE THAN 5 WORDS IN LENGTH, THEY SHOULD HAVE A COMMA AT THE END SOME SHORTER INTRODUCTORY PHRASES AND CLAUSES ALSO REQUIRE A COMMA AFTER THEM ESPECIALLY IF IT CREATES CONFUSION WITHOUT IT. WHEN IN DOUBT, DON’T LEAVE IT OUT