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Ch.8 Flashcards

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1
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The event that marked the end of the literary period characterized by the emergence of what 2 things in the beginning of WWI

A

Realism and naturalism

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What years did realism and naturalism appear?

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1865-1914

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What were the 2 major forces of change following the civil war period?

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Rapid industrialization and Darwin’s theory

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What were the results of the rapid growth of industrialization following the civil war

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Growth of labor unions, new towns, and assumption of leadership by American businessmen

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5
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Why did cities grow?

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Immigration southern black Americans, and discouraged farmers

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6
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Where did higher criticism originate?

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German seminaries and universities

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Who were the 2 evangelists who had an impact on the revival movement

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Dwight L. Moody, and hilly Sunday

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8
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What were the fundamentals of the periods professed to believe

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The inerrancy of scripture 
The virgin birth of Christ 
The substitutionary death of Christ 
Christ's physical resurrection 
Christ's miracles-working power
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What were the 3 major groups of writers in this era

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Regionalists realists and naturalists

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10
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Who are the “masters of realism” ?

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Howells,James, and Clemens

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11
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What did Howells writing embody?

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Middle class spirit

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12
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What did James writing embody?

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The cosmopolitan or international spirit

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13
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What did Clemens writing embody?

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The frontier spirit

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14
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What group of realists that were more romantic than realistic?

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The local Colorists

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15
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What did naturalists portray man as?

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Man more as a beast than a man

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How are naturalist best described as?

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That life was controlled by inexplicable forces

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17
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What was the prevailing spirit at the end of literary period of realism and naturalism?

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Was one of pessimism

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18
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What publication made Brent Harte fame?

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The luck of the roaring camp

19
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What dialect did Brent Harte skillfully

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Western

20
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What Is the setting of “The Boom in the Calaveras Clarion”?

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A county in California

21
Q

Who said “who dressed like a mine”?

In The Boom in the Calaveras Clarion

A

Mr. Dimmidge

22
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Who said his position and he was not sorry when the term of his engagement expired the next week? In The Boom in the Calaveras Clarion

A

The editor

23
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How are Mr. Dimmidge physical appearance and his mission a paradox?

A

He is a big man carrying a gun half cocked. He appears to be rough and ready for trouble, but really only wants to find his wife

24
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Why did Mr. And Mrs. Dimmidge decide to reconcile their differences?

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Because everything they have been doing seems unimportant; they feel ashamed and afraid.

25
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A form of humor whose grotesque and morbid situations reveal bitter disillusionment of its author. Life appears to be a cruel joke played upon man by an impersonal or malevolent force.

A

Black humor

26
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Who was regarded by many as the first American writer to use black humor

A

Ambrose Bierce

27
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Why does the reader think Farquhar has escaped?

A

Farquhar dived deeply as he could
The soldiers had almost finished reloading
He stand at the gate of his own home

28
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Hamlin garland powerfully portrays what?

A

The farmers plight

29
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What does Hamlin garland describe his realism as?

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Vertism(truth)

30
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What work earned Hamlin the Pulitzer Prize?

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“A daughter of the middle border”

31
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In return of the private what is the setting?

A

It is lacrosse Wisconsin after the civil war

32
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In return of the private who said he was like a man lost in a dream

A

Ed smith

33
Q

In return of the private who is the wife in this “shuttered to think how near she had come to being a soldier widow”

A

Emma smith

34
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Who wrote about the simple country people of Maine?

A

Sarah ORNE Jewett

35
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Which of Sarah Jewett works was rated as her best book?

A

The country of the pointed firs

36
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In a white heron what is the setting

A

Maine on a small farm

37
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What in a white heron is Sylvia’s inner conflict about the hunter and his request of her?

A

The hunter is important enough for her to tell him where the white herons nest is and whether she and Mrs. Tilley need the 10 dollars enough to give away the life of the heron

38
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Who published only 7 poems before she died

A

Emily Dickinson

39
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What did Emily Dickinson dress in the last years of her life?

A

White

40
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In what to sections or poems did Dickinson reveal that she is isolated?

A

Prologue and I’m nobody who are you

41
Q

In much madness is diviner sense is madness and sense are described as?

A

A paradox

42
Q

In the railway train the extended metaphor is?

A 
The train is compared to a horse which is
Lapping the miles 
Feeding itself
Stepping around 
Chasing itself 
Stopping at the stable door
43
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Quote who is this about “He closed his eyes in order to fix his last thoughts upon his wife and children.” And “His body,with a broken neck, swung gently from side to side beneath the timbers of Owl Creek Bridge

A

Peyton Farquhar

English 11th Grade (6 decks)

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