1. Friday, September 5th and Monday, September 8th American Literature
Standard 2 & 3
Base Groups
Label folders
Monty Python’s witch scene from Holy Grail
Notes
Tone and Mood Practice
Jonathan Edwards Info
“Sinner’s in the Hands of an Angry God”
Answer questions on own and turn in.
Free Read
Next class: “The Birthmark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
And then we will wrap up this Puritan biz!

2. IMAGERY: A common term of variable meaning, imagery includes the "mental pictures" that readers experience with a passage of literature. It signifies all the sensory perceptions referred to in a poem, whether by literal description, allusion, simile, or metaphor. Imagery is not limited to visual imagery; it also includes sound, touch, heat and cold, smell, taste, and movement.
Didactic
1. intended for instruction; instructive: didactic poetry.
2. inclined to teach or lecture others too much: a boring, didactic speaker.
3. teaching or intending to teach a moral lesson.

3. Allegory-Allegory is a figure of speech in which abstract ideas and principles are described in terms of characters, figures and events. It can be employed in prose and poetry to tell a story with a purpose of teaching an idea and a principle or explaining an idea or a principle. The objective of its use is to preach some kind of a moral lesson.

4. Populism (an anti-establishment political movement) and The Wizard of Oz

5. Background Information
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was not intended to be an innocent fairy tale. Author, Frank Baum, a reform- minded Democrat who supported William Jennings Bryan's pro-silver candidacy, wrote the book as a parable of the Populists, an allegory of their failed efforts to reform the nation in However, Frank Baum never allowed the consistency of the allegory to take precedence over the theme of youthful entertainment.

6. Hidden Representations:
The Wicked Witch of the East: represented eastern industrialists and bankers who controlled the people (the Munchkins).

7. Hidden Representations:
The Scarecrow represented the wise but naive western farmer.

8. Hidden Representations:
The Tin Woodman represented the dehumanized industrial worker.

9. Hidden Representations:
The Cowardly Lion was William Jennings Bryan, Populist presidential candidate in 1896.

10. Hidden Representations:
The Wizard represents William McKinley who tried to be all things to everyone, but turned out to be a fake.
President William McKinley

11. Hidden Representations:
The Yellow Brick Road, with all its dangers, represented the gold standard.

12. Hidden Representations
Dorothy's silver slippers (Judy Garland's were ruby red, but Baum originally made them silver) represented the Populists' solution to the nation's economic woes ("the free and unlimited coinage of silver")

13. Hidden Representations
The Wicked Witch of The West represents the railroads and the control they had over the populist supporters.

14. Hidden Representations
Emerald City represents Washington DC, where leaders reside and people look for significant change in their life.

15. Jonathan Edwards 1703-1758 Fire and brimstone imagery.
Helped bring about the Great Awakening.
Tyrannical pastor - extreme and strict - humans “lowly sinners.”
The last Puritan (Elements of Literature, Fifth Course, 77 ).