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Jessie Redmon Fauset

Jessie Redmon Fauset. By: Heather Gialluca. Jessie Redmon Fauset. Born April 27 th 1882 in Snow Hill New Jersey. Editor, Poet, Essayist and Novelist. Attended Cornell and university of Pennsylvania for languages. Died: April 30 th 1961. Dead fires.

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Jessie Redmon Fauset

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  1. Jessie RedmonFauset By: Heather Gialluca

  2. Jessie RedmonFauset • Born April 27th1882 in Snow Hill New Jersey. • Editor, Poet, Essayist and Novelist. • Attended Cornell and university of Pennsylvania for languages. • Died: April 30th 1961

  3. Dead fires • Theme: Better to have loved in vain then to have not loved at all. • Tone: Prideful and not regretful • Technique: consonance,

  4. LA Vie Cla vie c’est la vie • Translation: The life that is life. • Theme: The end of a relationship • Tone: Heart break • Technique: consonance, imagery, paradox

  5. Importance to the Harlem renaissance • She was the publication literary editor for The Crisis in 1919. • She encouraged other writers during the Harlem Renaissance such as Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer and Claude McKay.

  6. La vie c’est la vie and dead fires La Vie C’est La Vie • Has a mood of heartbreak. • Has consonance. • Refers to a drawn out relationship, a loveless relationship. Dead Fires • Has of mood of pride. • Has consonance. • Refers to a bad love but not regretting it.

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