Authors Flashcards

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John Steinbeck

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Modernism

– “The Turtle” from G​rapes of Wrath

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2
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Ernest Hemingway

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Modernism

—“In Another Country”

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Carl Sandburg

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Modernism

– “Chicago”; “Grass”

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4
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William Faulkner

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Modernism

– “Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech”

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5
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Robert Frost

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Modernism
– “Mending Wall”; “Acquainted With the Night”; “Out, Out …”;
“Fire and Ice”; “Birches”; “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening”

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e. e. cummings

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Modernism

– “ old age sticks’; “anyone lived in a pretty how town”; “i thank you, God”

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7
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W. H. Auden

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Modernism

– “The Unknown Citizen

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Langston Hughes

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Harlem Renaissance

– “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”; “Dream Variations”; “I,Too”; “Mother to Son”

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Claude McKay

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Harlem Renaissance

– “The Tropics in New York”

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Arna Bontemps

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Harlem Renaissance

– “A Black Man Talks of Reaping”

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Zora Neale Hurston

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Harlem Renaissance

– from D​ust Tracks on the Road

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Ezra Pound

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Imagists

– “A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste”; “In a Station of the Metro”

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13
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Colleen McKay

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Postmodernism

For my children

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14
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Yosef komunyakaa

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Postmodernism

Camouflaging the chimera

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15
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Tim o’Brian

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Postmodernism

Ambush from the things they carried

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16
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John Hersey

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Postmodernism

From heroshima

17
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Martin Espada

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Post modernism

Who burns for the perfection of paper

18
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Sylvia Plath

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Postmodernism

Mirror

19
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William Carlos Williams

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Imagist

– “The Red Wheelbarrow”; “The Great Figure”; “This is Just to Say”

20
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H. D.

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Imagist

–“​P​ear Tree”

21
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Harper Lee

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Postmodernism

– T​o Kill a Mockingbird

22
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Arthur Miller

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Postmodernism

– T​he Crucible

23
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William Stafford­­

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Postmodernism

“Traveling Through the Dark”

24
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John Updike

A

Modernism

- “Seven Stanzas at Easter”

25
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Allen Ginsberg

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­­ Beats

-“Howl,” “In a Supermarket in California”

26
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti­­

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Beats

“To the Oracle at Delphi”

27
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T. S. Eliot

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Modernism

– “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”; “The Wasteland”; “The Four Quartets”

28
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Kate Chopin

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Realism

The story of an hour

29
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Frederick Douglass

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Realism

My bondage my freedom

30
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Paul Laurence Dunbar

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Realism

Douglas; we wear the mask

31
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Chief Joseph

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Realism

I will fight no more forever

32
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Abraham Lincoln

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Realism

Gettysburg address, second inaugural address

33
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Robert E lee

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Realism

Letter to his son

34
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Stonewall Jackson

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Realism

an account of the battle of Bull Run

35
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Mary chestnut

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Realism

Civil War diary

36
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Sojourner truth

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Realism

An account of an experience with discrimination; aint I a woman

37
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Edwin Arlington Robinson

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Realism

Richard Cory; Luke havergal

38
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Edgar Lee masters

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Realism

Richard bone; Lucinda Matlock

39
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Ambrose Bierce

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Realism

An occurrence at owl creek bridge