MODERN ERA

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BRAVE NEW WORLD

Alexi Anderson, Kaylin Kozesky, Jason Poruznik, Bekah Schultz

TWENTIETH CENTURY/ AKA

MODERN ERA

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AUTHORS’ INFORMATION

Siegfried SassonBackground:

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(1886-1967)

Wilfred Owen

(1893-1918)

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Graham GreeneBackground:

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(1904-1991)

Ted HughesBackground:

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(1886-1967)

James JoyceBackground:

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(1886-1967)

D.H. LawrenceBackground:

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(1886-1967)

Dylan ThomasBackground:

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(1886-1967)

Aldous HuxleyBackground:

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(1886-1967)

LITERATURE STUDIED

“The Rear-Guard”-Siegfried Sassoon

Summary:

• This poem tells or the horrors of a man stumbling through trenches during WWI. He findshimself upon the corpse of a soldier.

“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.

“The Rear-Guard”-Siegfried Sassoon

Analysis:

• Imagery helps the audience see the action andfeel the emotions better in the poem.

• Irony: Tell the dead soldier to guide him throughthe tunnel

•Oxymoron: rosy gloom

Summary:

• This poem is about the consequences that happen to a soldier who does not get his mask on promptly.

“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 betweenbetween two seeminglyunlike things by using a connective world such aslike, as, than, or resembles.

“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

“Dulce et Decorum”-Wilfred Owen

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“The Destructors”-Graham Greene

“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

Analysis:

•Irony: The house that didn’t get destroyed by bombs got destroyed by children

“The Destructors”-Graham Greene

ELEMENTS OF A MODERNSHORT STORY

• 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.

WORKS CITED