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Modern Era And Brave New world

Modern Era And Brave New world. Alexi Anderson, Kaylin Kozesky , Jason Poruznik , Bekah Schultz. T wentieth C entury/ aka M odern E ra. A uthors’ I nformation. S iegfried Sasson. Background : Born into a high level English society class

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Modern Era And Brave New world

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  1. Modern Era And Brave New world Alexi Anderson, KaylinKozesky, Jason Poruznik, Bekah Schultz

  2. Twentieth Century/ aka Modern Era

  3. Authors’ Information

  4. Siegfried Sasson • Background: • Born into a high level English society class • Lived the life of a country gentleman until WWI started • He was a patriot and an idealist but after 2yrs his view were stark and savage depicting trench warfare. • Diagnosed with shellshock and was put in a hospital where he met Wilfred Owen • Works: • - Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (1928) • - The Rear-Guard (1917) ** (1886-1967)

  5. Wilfred Owen • Background: • Was interested in experimental techniques and mastered the half rhyme • His model was John Keats and he studied the French poets • His poetry progress was made in the war trenches and military hospitals • Work: • Dulce et Decorum Est (1893-1918)

  6. Graham Greene • Background: • Works: • - I or “ ” (1904-1991)

  7. Ted Hughes • Background: • Works: • - I or “ ” (1886-1967)

  8. James Joyce • Background: • Works: • - I or “ ” (1886-1967)

  9. D.H. Lawrence • Background: • Works: • - I or “ ” (1886-1967)

  10. Dylan Thomas • Background: • Works: • - I or “ ” (1886-1967)

  11. Aldous Huxley • Background: • Works: • - I or “ ” (1886-1967)

  12. Literature Studied

  13. “The Rear-Guard” • -Siegfried Sassoon • Summary: • This poem tells or the horrors of a man • stumbling through trenches during WWI. He finds • himself upon the corpse of a soldier.

  14. “The Rear-Guard” • -Siegfried Sassoon Literary Terms: Trench Poet- Poets who wrote “war poetry” but hoped their work would survive and continue to serve as a warning. (EX: Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen) Oxymoron- a figure of speech that combines apparently contradictory ideas.

  15. “The Rear-Guard” • -Siegfried Sassoon • Analysis: • Imagery helps the audience see the action and • feel the emotions better in the poem. • Irony: Tell the dead soldier to guide him through • the tunnel • Oxymoron: rosy gloom

  16. “Dulce et Decorum” • -Wilfred Owen • Summary: • This poem is about the consequences that happen to a soldier who does not get his mask on promptly.

  17. “Dulce et Decorum” • -Wilfred Owen Literary Terms: Hyperbole – a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion or create a comic effect. Simile- A figure of speech that makes a comparison between between two seemingly unlike things by using a connective world such as like, as, than, or resembles.

  18. “Dulce et Decorum” • -Wilfred Owen • Analysis: • Oxymoron: • Ecstasy of fumbling • Desperate glory • Simile: • -obscene as cancer • -bitter as the end of vile • Tone: • -disgusted • Hyperbole: • -Line 20

  19. “The Destructors” • -Graham Greene • Summary:

  20. “The Destructors” • -Graham Greene • Literary Terms: • Irony– a contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality- • between what is said and what is really meant • between what is expected and what really happens • between what appears to be true and what really is true

  21. “The Destructors” • -Graham Greene • Analysis: • Irony: The house that didn’t get destroyed by bombs got destroyed by children

  22. Elements of a Modern ShortStory

  23. Works cited • Probst, Robert E., Robert Anderson, and John Leggett. Elements of Literature. Literature of Britain with World Classics. Sixth Course ed. Austin: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2000. Print.

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