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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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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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.
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