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Biography and Short Fiction

Biography and Short Fiction. Units 7 and 8. Biography. Unit 7. Introduction. Types Teaching Help 5A Personality God, human. Appendix R. Part Two. Part One. 1. F 2. B 3. A 4. D 5. E 6. C 7. G. 8. B 9. C 10. B 11. D 12. A 13. C 14. D. About James Thurber.

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Biography and Short Fiction

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  1. Biography andShort Fiction Units 7 and 8

  2. Biography Unit 7

  3. Introduction • Types • Teaching Help 5A • Personality • God, human

  4. Appendix R Part Two Part One • 1. F • 2. B • 3. A • 4. D • 5. E • 6. C • 7. G • 8. B • 9. C • 10. B • 11. D • 12. A • 13. C • 14. D

  5. About James Thurber • Humorists, cartoons • End • Own, man • casually

  6. About “The Day the Dam Broke” • Poke, playful, panic • Own • Humor, irony • - not, running, plausible, ludicrous • - logically, ridiculous • ?

  7. About “The Day the Dam Broke” • Simile • Allusion • Metaphor • Offending • Get all the facts before acting, pointing out the tendency people have to join a crowd or mob

  8. About Plutarch • Biographer • artful • Goal, character

  9. About the “Life of Caesar” • Shakespeare’s • Gods, Caesar • Brutus • Animal, heart, dream • 23 • Metaphor • Simile • Decision, crossing, cannot • conquered

  10. Terms from Crossword • Biography • Fiction • Fiction • Connected • Flashback • Struggle • External • - himself

  11. Terms from Crossword • Setting • Emotion • Attitude • Main • - not • Opponent • - evil • Changes • Flat

  12. Terms from Crossword • Complexity • Same • Unhappiness • Happiness vs.

  13. Questions to Ask Yourself • Organized • Flashback • Conflict • Villain • Setting • Central, Scripture

  14. About Robert Louis Stevenson • Scotland • Father • Different • Worldly, France • Fanny, married • Money • married

  15. About Robert Louis Stevenson • Background • Samoa • Tales • Enjoyment • Plots, widely

  16. About “The Sire de Maletroit’s Door” • French • Suspense, locked

  17. Freytag’s Pyramid

  18. About “The Sire de Maletroit’s Door” • Suspense • Impression, bride, feet, blue, marry • White, age • Hero, climax, love • Metonymy • Simile • Paradox, alliteration • Foreshadowing • Dramatic • personification

  19. About Alfred, Lord Tennyson • Voice, popular • Mental, epilepsy • Father’s, sister • Christian • Laureate, people • Monocle, head • Experimentation, OCD

  20. About “Lady Clare” • Purity, not • Common • Beauty • Understatement • Not • They are Romantic types who act nobly in trying circumstances.

  21. About “Lady Clare” • No, Lady Clare should not deceive her fiancé. • Down, rank • Though in the heart of Lord Ronald, Clare has always been a lady, the title is ambiguous because we learn that Lady Clare is not truly a lady by birth; however, when the poem ends, we learn that she will become Lady Clare the next morning.

  22. About Sir Arthur Conan Doyle • Scotland • Sherlock Holmes • + Bell • + Killed • Hound • Short • popularized

  23. About Sherlock Holmes • - plotted • Fair • Observations people, places, and events; Notices every clue— even the small ones; Thinks quietly and then acts • Quick eye, brilliant mind, ability to arrive at facts from small clues, ability to link facts together into a solution

  24. About Sherlock Holmes • Dr. Watson, personal friend of Holmes with insight into his character and mannerisms • Experience with Holmes • Helps with the surprise endings— If Holmes narrated, the ending would be given away far too quickly • Makes Holmes appear clever instead of arrogant • The reader identifies with Dr. Watson.

  25. About “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” • Simile • Helen Stoner’s plea for help from Sherlock Holmes • Holmes and Watson’s vigil at Stoke Moran and their subsequent battle with the speckled band

  26. About “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” • Julia Stoner’s sudden death before her marriage, the description of inquest following her death, Dr. Roylott’s heritage, Roylott’s time and trouble in India, his erratic behavior at Stoke Moran and the subsequent brawls with his neighbors, his menagerie, Mrs. Roylott’s will, the recent engagement of Helen Stoner, the unexpected “remodeling” of Stoke Moran • The gypsy “band” • synecdoche

  27. “The Red-Headed League” Video

  28. About Ray Bradbury • Science • Self-, 1,000 • Theme, imagination, God • Survival • not

  29. About “The Drummer Boy of Shiloh” • Internal, 23,000 • Internal • Man vs. himself • Job vs. Joby, Joby vs. his fears • April • Not • The general cried too, the general said that Joby is the heart of the army. Joby then imagines himself “general of the army when the general’s left behind.

  30. About “The Drummer Boy of Shiloh” • Joby is thus emboldened by his imagination to face the fear of dying and act in a calm resolute manner. • Drum, peach, toy, youth, anxiety • - onomatopoeia • - personification, metaphor • - personification • - allusion • - simile, alliteration, assonance • - synecdoche- the bones represent soldiers, metaphor, consonance • - metaphor

  31. About Stephen Crane • Religious, economic • God • Fate, problems • Journalist • Best • realistic “A man said to the universe: 'Sir, I exist!' 'However,' replied the universe. / 'The fact has not created in me / A sense of obligation.”

  32. About “The Gray Sleeve” • Uncertainty, 75 • Unable • Theme, gray • Indecision • pistol

  33. About Thomas Hardy • Architect • Positive, “lost,” great, badly • Writing • Pessimistic • Novelist, pessimistic • Shakespeare • 900, wife, nature, living, heart

  34. About “Tony Kytes, the Arch Deceiver” • Humorous, dialect • He cannot decide whom he wants to marry. • Immature, deceptive, handsome, indecisive • “a handsome girl,” jealous • Tony’s supposed fiancée, pouting, impatient, gullible • Abrupt, flattering, pretty, fickle • Moral, concerned about his family reputation, has common sense

  35. Freytag’s Pyramid

  36. About “Tony Kytes, the Arch Deceiver” • We can get into trouble when we are not honest. Make a decision instead of waffling. • Hardy is taking a critical look at the subject of immature love and the lack of wisdom inherent in entering marriage lightly. • Tone • Uncertainty • - situation • - dramatic • - situation • - Dramatic

  37. About “Tony Kytes, the Arch Deceiver” • Title • He needs to grow up a little. If he deceives during courtship, he will probably deceive Milly during their marriage. He also does not make decisions logically, but rather bases them on emotions and circumstances.

  38. About Walter de la Mare • Dreamy • Children • rejected Silver Slowly, silently, now the moonWalks the night in her silver shoon;This way, and that, she peers, and seesSilver fruit upon silver trees;One by one the casements catchHer beams beneath the silvery thatch;Couched in his kennel, like a log,With paws of silver sleeps the dog;From their shadowy cote the white breasts peepOf doves in silver feathered sleepA harvest mouse goes scampering by,With silver claws, and silver eye;And moveless fish in the water gleam,By silver reeds in a silver stream.

  39. About “The Listeners” • Most • Chilling • Truth, truth • Mirrors, life • Chivalric • - onomatopoeia • - Alliteration • - Assonance • - Alliteration • - consonance Audio of “The Listeners”

  40. About “Foul Shot” by Edwin A Hoey • Suspense • To emphasize the path of the basketball • - Alliteration • - Assonance • - Personification • - synecdoche

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