6 Week Second Semester Flashcards
To a waterfowl
William Cullen Bryant
The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe
The fall of the house of usher
Edgar Allan Poe
Thanatopsis
William Cullen Bryant
The devil and tom walker
Washington Irving
The bells
Edgar Allan Poe
To Helen
Edgar Allan Poe
In the early 1800s Americans went from what to what
Colonialism to nationalism
What were Americans becoming
Manufacturers
The early 1800s were a time of great
Expansion
Jackson warned that ___ could become the greatest dividing threat
Internal division
What replaced classicism
Romanticism
What did romanticism value
Intuition, humanitarian reform, and the mysterious
Who promoted transcendentalism
Emerson
How did transcendentalism see nature
Organic process, constantly developing, ever changing
First national literary hero
Natty bumps
Who saw nature as a great teacher of spiritual truths
William Bryant
Irvin’s most famous stories are adaptations of
German folk tales
What did irving’s first substantial writing do for him
Nothing
Irving began using what to allow his readers to connect with the past
Legends and old tales
When did Irving return to the US and how
1832 foremost writer
What did Irving write 5 volumes of
Biography of George Washington
Most popular story in the world
Rip van winkle
What does Irving combine in hearsay
Supernatural and natural
Setting for our story from Irving
Not Vermont 1827
Who buried the treasure and who guarded it
Captain Kidd
The devil
How did tom and his wife live
In strife
What did tom discover first
Skull with Indian tomahawk in it
Nickname for the devil
Old scratch
Why did tom not sell himself to the devil
To spite his wife
What was tom worried about
Valuables
What was in the apron
Parts of his wife
Would tom be a slave trader
No
What did tom do
Became a money lender in Boston
Became very wealthy
Tried to cheat the devil by going to church carrying a bible, and burying his horse upside down with a saddle on
How did the devil find tom
Unprepared
What happened to tom’s wealth
Cinders, shavings, skeletons, and ashes
What did cooper write
30 novels, naval history, several volumes of social comments
First novel to make serious use of American history
The spy by cooper
What is cooper’s theme
Effect of the frontier upon American character
Bumpo’s morality has been formed by ___ and represents ___
The wilderness
Cooper’s hope for a moral renewal in America
America’s most cherished myth
Wilderness brings new beginning and continual youth
Bumpo’s other names
Deerslayer
Hawkeye
What were rive oak and panther known for
Mental, physical
How did the Chiefs look at deerslayer in court
Nothing decided yet
How did riven oak regard deerslayer
Respected him
Deerslayer’s reaction to marrying sumac
Refused
What happened with the tomahawk
Panther threw it at deerslayer, who caught it and threw it back, killing him, then he ran
Did deerslayer hide in a cave
No
Did deerslayer have an oar
A stick, until a bullet shattered it
Did deerslayer get shot
No
Did he escape the Hurons and if so how
Yes, by drifting with the wind
What does Bryant see in to a waterfowl
Solitary bird migrating south
Does Bryant think about hunters
Yes
Eagles and mountains in Bryant
No
Does Bryant believe in a power guiding the birds
Yes
Does the bird land
No
When will the bird’s flight end
Rest in summer
Lesson of to a waterfowl
God guided the bird and would guide the author
What does nature do in Thanatopsis
Speaks in various ways to our diverse moods
What to do when worried about death
Go outside and listen to nature’s voice
Does Bryant mention the soul
No
What does Bryant call the earth
Great tomb
Magnificent couch
When did Poe lose his parents
Early in life
Was Poe ever formally adopted by Allan
No
Did Poe graduate
No
Did Poe ever get Allan’s affection
No
Who did Poe live with, and what happened there
An aunt, switched from poetry to fiction
What happens when Poe is 26
He marries his 13 year old cousin with the help of his aunt
What does Poe use imagination for
Exit the real world and enter the inner world
Was Poe successful
Wrote poetry, remained poor
What happened after the death of his first wife
Never remarried
Poe in general
Creator of effective poetry
Developer of short story
Inventor of detective story
Explorer of dark inner self
Was the house of usher pleasant
No
Crack did what
Ran from roof to water in the tarn
First spoken words of usher
I shall perish I must perish in this deplorable folly
About Madeleine
Roderick’s sister
Dying
Rider’s attempts to help usher
Failed
When does usher confess to burying Madeleine alive
Hearing sounds during the story
Does the rider get away
Yes
How does the bells progress
Darker
What does the bells use
Onomatopoeia
Poe myth
Debauched character ruined talent
Poe became
The most influential American writer of his time and maybe any time
French poet Baudelaire tried to
Promote Poe throughout France
Baudelaire admired
Poe’s imaginative penetration of the mind’s abnormal states
Poe’s prototype for detectives
Frenchman Auguste dupin
Dupin portrayed as
Taking many clues and arriving at culprit
When did surrealism first appear
WWI in France
Surreal definition of reality
Irrational, fantastic, bizarre
How did surrealism flourish best
Visually
Technique in surrealism
Familiar object with weird texture
What did surrealists want to do
Jolt us out of accustomed way of Seeing things
Stress no clear line between subject and object or dreams and reality
Dictionary definition of a word
De notation
Concepts and emotions associated with a word
Connotation
Choice in selecting words
Diction
Syllable scheme or pattern using stressed and unstressed accents
Feet
Repeated vowel sounds
Assonance
Repeated consonant sounds
Alliteration
Words whose sound reveals their meaning
Onomatopoeia
Extended metaphor through whole poem
Conceit
Physical object that represents something non-physical
Symbol
Something in the past that is widely known and understood
Allusion
Between 1820-1850, 28 utopian communities were founded
False
Transcendentalism says we can only gain knowledge through our senses
False
Emerson’s NATURE is the supreme example of transcendentalism Art
False
Dickinson’s poems greatly influenced transcendentalism
False
Did James Russell Lowell write twice told tales
No
Pacific weekly
Non existence
Did NC secede in 1860
No
When was snowbound written
1866
Where did Emerson go to school
Harvard
Life of Emerson
Gave up ministry, wife died a year later
Went to Europe
Came back and remarried
When did Emerson write NATURE
1836
Emerson
Pantheism
Oversoul in everything, optimistic transcendentalism
Hinduism
Describe emerson’s message
Exhilarating to his own generation and the next
Most influential in shaping literature
Emerson
Works
Self reliance
Friendship
Concord hymn
Snow storm
Sayings of Emerson
Trust thyself Transparent eyeball A man is nonconformist One is sincere, two are hypocritical Sky is the daily bread of the eye Hitch your wagon to a star Shot heard round the world
Difference between Emerson and thoreau
Emerson - philosopher
Thoreau - disciple who put ideas to test
Thoreau’s life
Harvard grad
Odd jobs and wrote for the transcendentalism publication called the dial
Educated by nature, lived at walden ponder fused to pay taxes
Influenced ghandi and MLKJ
Passive resistance when government is wrong
What did Thoreau write
Walden
civil disobedience
When was walden written
1854
Thoreau sayings
Learn from the woods Not die and discover not lied Simplicity Railroad rides us Walking to different drums Money not needed for soul
Hawthorne’s life
Bowdoin college
1825-1837 silent period perfected writing skills
Married 1841
When was the scarlet letter
1850
Themes of Hawthorne
Human heart and evil against transcendentalism
Works of Hawthorne
Notebooks and other writings
Scarlet letters
Sayings of Hawthorne
Description
Melville’s life
Education from ocean
No other writer had as much worldly knowledge
Five novels, progressively more philosophical
Barely able to support himself
Died 40 years after Moby dick, virtually unknown
Against transcendentalists
What did Melville write
Moby dick
Shiloh
Maldives shark
Quote from Melville
Wicked book, spotless as lamb
Height of longfellow’s career
America’s most popular poet
Who were the fireside poets
Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes, Whittier
Was longfellow’s poetry weird
No
What did Whittier do when he got out from college
Did not write novels
What does Holmes compare the nautilus’s freedom to
The soul’s freedom
What did Longfellow say
Life is real, grave not the goal
Leave behind footsteps of time
Holmes said
God of storms, lighting and gale
Lowell said
Zekle dogwood blushing
Dickinson
Centuries feel shorter than day
And leave his broke play things on the floor
Iambic pentameter
Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary
Trochaic
Oh he flies through the air with the greatest of ease
Anapestic
This is the forest primeval the murmuring pines and the hemlocks
Dactylic
Anapestic
Short short long
Dactylic
Long short short
3 main ideas of transcendentalism
Optimism, nature is spiritual, look within for spiritual
Emerson’s snow
Craftsman
Wit tiers snow
Makes familiar things different
Three interpretations of Moby Dick
Mysteries of universe, purity, death, neutrality
Nature is what
Italian sonnet
Arrow and song
Enduring, stories,
Apostrophe
Direct address
Steps to analyze poem
Read twice Read aloud First impressions Meaning of words and theme Title Parts As a whole Draw together Main idea
Parts of poem
Tone,structure Sound Rhythm Language Denotative and connotative Imagery Similes, metaphors, personifications Symbolism Analogies conceits
Psalm of life
Do something
Nature poem
Mother takes child to bed puts toys away promising new better ones, nature same way
Tide rises and falls
Tide is constant, life is short, traveler does not return
Power in my hand
Struggle against self with allusion to David and Goliath
The leather stocking tales
James fenimore cooper
