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Understanding Literary Terms in "Thank You, M'am" Story

Learn about dramatic monologue, soliloquy, direct and indirect characterization, and inference in Langston Hughes' story "Thank You, M'am". Pre-reading notes and video references provided.

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Understanding Literary Terms in "Thank You, M'am" Story

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  1. “Thank You, M’am” Pre-reading Notes

  2. Literary Terms: • 1) Dramatic Monologue—a speaker addresses one or more silent listeners, often discussing a problem • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKk9rv2hUfA • 2) Soliloquy—self-revealing speech delivered by a character alone addressing themselves—offer revealing thoughts • 3) Direct Characterization—author tells us directly what a character is like or what a person’s motives are • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDPJvTR61ww (start at 2:10) • 4) Indirect Characterization—author shows us a character but allows us to interpret for ourselves the kind of person we are meeting

  3. Inference—you use your observations and prior experience to guess about something you don’t know for sure

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