Lesson 1: Forging New Frontiers: The Post Civil War Period
Objectives
After successfully completing this lesson, you will be able to
- write well-organized, well-supported essays of literary analysis.
- recognize the essential relationship between literature and its historical context.
- describe the literary devices humor and regional dialect.
- recognize and discuss the elements regionalism and local color.
- differentiate between tone and mood, discussing the presence of each in selected literary works.
- identify and discuss the elements of conflict, distinguishing between internal and external conflict, in selected literary works.
- define the literary term irony and discuss its presence in selected literary works.
