LEARNING TARGETS: as a result of today’s class you should be able to explain

1. The meaning of the literary term “JUXTAPOSITION”
2. The importance of Mark Twain as an American author
3.  How Twain’s “Life on the Mississippi” is an example of realism.

 

IN CLASS

QUICK LECTURE ON JUXTAPOSITION

Watched some of this Mark Twain biography

Read excerpts from “LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI” p. 520

 

REMINDER: CONTENT QUIZ ON FRIDAY

• End of Colonial era
  • Common Sense: Paine
  • Declaration of Independence
  • King: Letter from Birmingham Jail
• Romanticism
  • Poe: Tell Tale Heart
  • Emily Dickinson
  • Irving: The Devil and Tom Walker
• Realism
  • Bierce:  “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”
  • Twain: “Life on the Mississippi”
  • Chopin” “Story of an Hour”
• Literary Terms to know
  • Faust Legend
  • Paralellism
  • Irony
    • Situational
    • Dramatic
    • Verbal
  • Juxtaposition