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Ch 2 test redo Flashcards

1
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How are the husband and wife alone in “Home Burial”?

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Bc they are coping with the death of their baby in different ways and they aren’t helping each other so they feel alone.

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What event occurred in the story “Home Burial” that affected the marriage?

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The death of their babe

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Why is Amy so angry with her husband in the story “ Home Burial”?

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She feels that he is over the death and has already moved on.

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Does Amy fall to understand her husbands response?

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Yes

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Was Amys husband indifferent like Amy thinks?

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No

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What do the husbands fear at the end of the poems in “Home Burial”?

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That Amy will leave him

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What is the significance of the title “ Home Burial”?

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They buried their son at home

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In the the poem “The Road Not Taken” what does the road symbolize?

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Life and how he should or how he wants to travel through life

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In the poem “ The Road Not Taken” what was the importance of the road?

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Bc he chose the road that best fit him and not everybody else

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Which road did he take?

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the one less traveled bc he was different and wanted a different life then everybody else.

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Does “He” regret his choice for taken the road that he did?

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No

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In the poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” what does the snow symbolize?

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The snow represents a new clean slate and a quite peaceful time.

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In the poem “ Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening” what does the woods symbolize?

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His life…. deep and dark

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14
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Why does he care about what the horse thinks?

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because the horse rings the bell

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In the poem “Fog” describe the tone.

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Ominous

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16
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Why is the cat a metaphor?

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Its sneaky

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What do you think the fog represents?

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Something powerful that sneaks in and hovers over those less powerful.

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18
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In contrast to Whitman Sanburgs image of the grass, what does the grass represent here?

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Basically covers up the horrible sins of man

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In the story “Richard Cory” why doesn’t the persona explain why Cory commits suicide?

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Because he wants the reader to have their own opinion

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Why YOU think Cory committed suicide?

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because he was lonely and had no friends

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Why does Robison devote so much attention to establishing how much Cory did have?

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Bc he wanted the readers to know that he had everything but a social life and thats what made him commit suicide.

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What do you think Robinsons idea of success is based on this poem?

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His idea of success was to have friends and people to turn to not just being rich.

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How do the towns people feel about Cory?

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They thought he was stuck up and they thought that Cory wanted them to be jealous.

24
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What point of view in the story “Richard Cory”?

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First person plural

25
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Who really knew Cory in the story “Richard Cory”?

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nobody did

26
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Who is the central character in the poem “Miniver Cheevy?”

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Miniver Cheevy

27
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What is Minivers problem?

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That he was seeking to a romanticized and idealized past

28
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What is the tone of the poem “Miniver Cheevy?”

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Humor and pathos

29
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Are Miniver Cheevy and Richard Cory problems the same?

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No

30
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How does Richard Cory and Miniver Cheevy solve their problem?

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Richard commits suicide and Miniver Cheevy looked down on people who had money

31
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Whos fault is it that Miniver Cheevy is in this predicament?

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His own

32
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In the poem “ Mr. Floods Party”, why does Eben talk to his self?

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Because he is lonely

33
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What characteristics of Modernism are in the poem “Mr.Floods Party?”

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themes of loss, the destruction of family, movement away from religion

34
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In the story “Adventure” how does Alice Hindman fit the profile of a grotesque?

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She believed that Ned Currie was going to come back for her and marry her

35
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In the story “Adventure” what are the significant moments of Alices life?

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Ned leaves her and doesn’t take her with him but gets over him and denies willard

36
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Why does Alice decide to run naked out in the rain that night?

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to feel free

37
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_____________ is the the poetry becomes more subtle and dense in its symbolism, more reliant upon allusions to earlier literature, like mythology.

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Experimentation

38
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__________ is when modernists tend to reject the social, economic, and spiritualvalues of Western culture

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Disillusionment

39
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____________ is when modernists reject traditional philosophical and religious systems of belief in favor of existentialism, which suggests a meaningless, chaotic, Godless world, where individuals may or may not give meaning to their lives.

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Existentialism

40
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___________ is when modernists felt like outsiders within their own culture.

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Alienation

41
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___________ is modernist poetry that is particularly marked by control.

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Control

42
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____________ is Freudian and Jungian psychology inspired the imaginations of authors who experimented in their fiction and drama with hidden motives anduniversal archetypes

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Freud and Jung

43
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_____________ is when many modernists draw inspiration from ancient Greek and Roman culture.

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Classical Antiquity

44
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______________ is when modernists were inspired by African art and American Indian art, both of which began to receive attention and celebration.

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Primitivism

45
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______________ was a feeling of pride in African heritage and in African-American culture blossomed between the World Wars in a number of Americancities, not just Harlem

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Harlem Renaissance

46
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Who wrote “Fog?”

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Carl Sandburg

47
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Who wrote “ Grass?”

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Carl Sandburg

48
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Who wrote “Richard Cory?”

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Edwin Arlington Robinson

49
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Who wrote “Miniver Cheevy?”

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Edwin Arlington Robinson

50
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Who wrote “Mr. Floods Party?”

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Edwin Arlington Robinson

51
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Who wrote “Home Burial?”

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Robert Frost

52
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Who wrote “The Road Not Taken?”

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Robert Frost

53
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Who wrote “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening?”

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Robert Frost

54
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Who wrote “ The Book of the Grotesque?”

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Sherwood Anderson

55
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Who wrote “Adventure?”

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Sherwood Anderson

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