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Washington
Irving

humor, imagery,
and satire (making
gentle fun of
something)

Cống hiến

Tác phẩm

the first American
Rip Van Winkle
writer to set his
stories firmly in the
United States even as
he poached from
German or Dutch
folklore

Theme

Freedom vs
Tyranny
Constancy vs
Change
Volunteerism
vs Work for
profit
History vs
Fiction

Henry
Wadsworth
Longfellow

anapestic and
trochaic forms,
blank verse, heroic
couplets, ballads,
and sonnets.

Brahmin poet
(A. poet, bear the
European-oriented
viewpoints→retarde
d the development
and progress of

The tide rises,
the tide falls
( AABBA)

All about the
process of
birth-deathrebirth in the
world.
Man vs

Nhân vật/ tính
cách nhân vật

Tone/Mood

Rip Van Winkle:
kind-neighbor,
simple, goodnatured, obedient
henpecked
husband.
Dame Van
Winkle: shrewing,
domineering,
sharp- tongued,
termagant, nagging
Tone: a cold,
dark tone →
peaceful, calm/
accepting,
relaxing tone


Emily

Dickinson

Nathaniel
Hawthorne

American literature)
The first American
celebrities was also
popular in Europe.
Powerful and
persistent figure in
American culture.

short lines,
typically lack
titles, often uses
slant rhyme as well
as unconventional Innovative protocapitalization and modernist poet (nhà
punctuation
thơ tân thời tân tiến)

As a Dark
Romantic, he used
symbols and
metaphors to teach
lessons.
His focus on the
psychological is
also typical of the
Dark Romantic

style, which he

one of the greatest
American novelists,
dark romantic, short
stories writer, a
master of the
allegorical and
symbolic tale

Nature

Hope is the
thing with
feathers
(Alternative)

The Scarlet
Letter

Hope: resides
in the hearts
for good.
It liberates us
from despair
and gives us
the strength to
move on.
It only
empowers us

and in return
demands
nothing.
1. Sin and
Punishment
2. Public
judment and
individual
guilt
3. Feminine
bravery

Mood:
Stz 1: Regret
Stz 2 Hopeless
Stz 3 Hopefull
Tone:
Optimistic,
motivational and
hopeful
Mood: no shift
in the mood,
stayed
motivational,
hopeful,
encouraging,
and positive
Hester Prynne:
beautiful, strong,
kind, proud, but

also humble.
Always remains
her dignity
Arthur
Dimmesdale: A
Puritan minister the


used to illustrate
themes of sin,
guilt, and
hypocrisy.
O. Henry

Robert Frost

witty, plot-twisting American short
endings
stories writer whose
tales romanticized
the commonplace in particular the life
of ordinary people in
NYC.
O.Henry Award

The gift of the
Magi

Setting from rural
life in New

England.
The simple beauty

The Road not
taken
(ABAAB)

One of America’s
rare public literary
figures, almost an
artistic institution.

LOVE
Love and
sacrifice
Wise and
Foolish in
love

personification of
"human frailty and
sorrow," is young,
pale, and physically
delicate.
Della: adores her
husband, puts his
needs before hers,
and is kind, sweet
and generous.
Jim: a loving

husband
Understand the true
meaning of the
gifts they have
given each other is
not what the gifts
are, but what they
represent.
the greatest gift
they have is each
other

Human
beings are
confronted
with and

Mood:
Ambiguous and
meditative


of his verse, his
sensitive,
observing spirit,
his quick
sympathies and
gentle
understranding all
revealed in simple

language that has
the tang and twist
of Yankee speech.
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Congress Gold
Medal

defined by the
choices they
make.

Literary Devices
 Simile (So sánh) like/as
 Metaphor (Ẩn dụ)
 Metonymy (Hoán dụ) Dùng khái niệm này để chỉ khái niệm khác
 Synecdoche (Đề dụ) Dùng toàn thể chỉ bộ phận/ Dụng bộ phận chỉ toàn thể
 Symbolism (Biểu tượng)
 Personification (Nhân hóa)
 Irony (Nói mỉa)
 Paradox (Nói ngược)
 Foreshadowing (Nghệ thuật báo trước)
 Hyperbole (Cường điệu, nói quá)