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| 14841158462 | The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck's novel about a struggling farm family during the Great Depression. Gave a face to the violence and exploitation that migrant farm workers faced in America | 0 | |
| 14841158463 | Death of a Salesman | (Arthur Miller, 1949). This play questions American values of success. Willy Loman is a failed salesman whose firm fires him after 34 years. Despite his own failures, he desperately wants his sons Biff and Happy to succeed. Told in a series of flashbacks, the story points to Biff's moment of hopelessness, when the former high school star catches his father Willy cheating on his mother, Linda. Eventually, Willy can no longer live with his perceived shortcomings, and commits suicide in an attempt to leave Biff with insurance money. | 1 | |
| 14841158464 | Modernist | A person who embraces new ideas, styles, and social trends. (1900 - 1950) | 2 | |
| 14841158465 | Postmodernist | A believer in subjective realities that cannot exist independently of the observational processes used. Problems exist when people agree that there is a problem that needs to be addressed. (1945 - 2001) | 3 | |
| 14841158466 | Expressionist | Van Gogh, Gaugin, and Rouault, believe that good art expresses the emotions of the maker and has an emotional impact on its viewers. Europe: (1901 - 1960) | US: (1925 - 1960) | 4 | |
| 14841158467 | Analysis of Structure | Used to break a large topic into parts to examine how each part works together to form the larger whole | 5 | |
| 14841158468 | Analysis of Setting | --impact of setting helps convey a sense of the world --shot "on location" or in a studio —sets up mood depending on situation, weather, etc | 6 | |
| 14841158469 | The Grapes of Wrath Structure | Odd chapters: obscure, non plot description of the world & people; shows that the Joads was not the only family suffering Even chapters: follows the plot of the Joads | 7 | |
| 14841158470 | Death of a Salesman Structure | Dives into the troubled mind of Willy Loman as it shows flashbacks of his life and imagination of his high expectations | 8 | |
| 14841158471 | Carpe Diem | Literally, "seize the day"; "enjoy life while you can," a common theme in life and literature. | 9 | |
| 14841158472 | Epistolary Point of View | letters, diary, entries, texts, documents, emails, etc. | 10 | |
| 14841158473 | Stream of Consciousness Writing | a method of narration that describes in words the flow of thoughts in the minds of the characters | 11 | |
| 14841158474 | unreliable narrator | a narrator whose credibility has been seriously compromised | 12 | |
| 14841158475 | Peripheral point of view | When a minor character tells the story | 13 | |
| 14841158476 | Innocent Eye Narrator | narrator who speaks from a place of youth, disability, or inexperience | 14 | |
| 14841158477 | Parallel Plot | a secondary story line that mimics and reinforces the main plot | 15 | |
| 14841158478 | Allusion | A reference to another work of literature, person, or event | 16 | |
| 14841158479 | deus ex machina | In literature, the use of an artificial device or gimmick to solve a problem. | 17 | |
| 14841158480 | Sub plot | a subordinate plot in a play, novel, or similar work. | 18 | |
| 14841158481 | denouement | an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot | 19 | |
| 14841158482 | verisimilitude | the appearance of being true or real | 20 | |
| 14841158483 | atmosphere | The surrounding of a setting | 21 | |
| 14841158484 | mood | How the reader feels about the text while reading. | 22 | |
| 14841158485 | proplepsis | inclusion in the main story of references to events which in fact will occur after the dramatic time of the poem | 23 | |
| 14841158486 | antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. | 24 | |
| 14841158487 | hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. | 25 |
