A reference to a famous person, place, event, or work of literature
Language that appeals to the five senses
A thing that stands for something beyond itself
April night in 1862, in the peach field near Owl Creek, by a church at Shiloh
Where and when a story takes place
A kind of figure of speech in which an expression or entire phrase means something different from the literal meaning of the words in it.
Ex. It's raining cats and dogs --> It's raining a lot!
In the description of the setting in lines 24-26, what does the special wind suggest about the locations of the two armies? What mood does this description help create?
Why does the General refer to the pace of the boy's drumming as "the heart of the army" in lines 141-157?
Henry Wadsworth Longellow was a popular American author who wrote "Paul Revere's Ride" and other works immortalizing early American history and heroes. Identify the allusion to him in lines 177-188. What mood does this allusion help create in the last paragraph?
What is the similarity between the General's talk with the drummer boy and the drummer boy's role in the next day's battle?
"Yes, thought the boy, that's all very well for them, they can give as good as they get!....Me, thought the boy, I only got a drum, two sticks to beat it, and no shield."
"There's a hundred thousand men,...not one as can spit a sparrow off a tree, or knows a horse clod from a minnie ball....should turn tail and train."
"He might at any moment strike fire to them to see his way through the coming days when the sun might not show its face."