End Of Third Quarterk Flashcards
The devil and tom walker
Washington Irving
The leather stocking tales
James fenimore cooper
To a waterfowl
William Cullen Bryant
The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe
The fall of the house of usher
Edgar Allan Poe
The bells
Edgar Allan Poe
To Helen
Edgar Allan Poe
Americans went from ______ to _____
Colonialism to nationalism
Farmers became
Manufacturers
___ replaced _____
Romanticism replaced classicism
Romanticism valued
Intuition
Humanitarian reform
Mysterious
Irving’s two most famous stories are
Adaptations of German folk tales
Did history of New York his first substantial writing make him famous
No
Did Irving use legends and why
Yes to allow readers to connect with the past
Irving 1832
Returned to US as foremost writer
Irving and John Adams
None
Rip van winkle
Most popular story
About hearsay
Combine supernatural and natural elements
Setting for story in textbook Irving
Massachusetts 1727
Tom became
A wealthy money-lender in Boston
What did tom try to do and how
Trick the devil by going to church, carrying a Bible, burying horse upside down
How did the devil find tom
Unprepared
What happened to tom’s wealth
Reduced to cinders, shavings skeletons, ashes
What did cooper write
30 novels, naval history, volumes of social comments
What formed bumpo’s morality
Wilderness
What does bumpo’s morality represent
Cooper’s hope for a moral renewal in America
America’s most cherished myth
Wilderness brings new youth
How does deerslayer escape
Drifted with the wind, escaped from the Hurons
Does the bird land
No
What does Bryant say about the end of the bird’s flight
Rest during the summer
Lesson of waterfowl
God guided the bird, and would guide the author
About Poe
Creator of effective poetry
Developer of short story
Inventor of detective story
Explorer of the dark side of inner self
First spoken words of usher
I shall perish, I must perish in this deplorable folly
When does usher confess and to what
After hearing sounds during a story
Burying Madeline Alive
What does Madeline do
Kills her brother
Poe’s prototype for detectives was
A Frenchman named Auguste dupin
How was dupin portrayed
Taking many clues and arriving at culprit
When and where did surrealism first appear
French literature WWI
Surrealist definition of reality
Irrational, fantastic, bizarre
Did America expand in 1840-1860
Yes
Did the population double between 1830-1870
Yes
Did America rely on anything besides science
Yes
What did industrialization bring
Terrible working conditions
Abandonment of American basic values
How many utopian communities between 1820-1850
At least 58
Reforms
Public education
Abolishing slavery
Voting for women
Did the Lyceum system impact America
Yes
Growing materialism
Spread
What was the nickname of literary time
American Renaissance
What did transcendentalists believe
Universal soul
Strongest transcendentalist
Emerson
Brahmins
Not Emerson, Thoreau, Dickinson
Who drew from Quakerism
John green leaf Whittier
Dickinson transcendentalist?
No
What did Hawthorne and Melville say
Sin and evil refute transcendentalist optimism
Literature from this time shows
Human possibility
Human limitation
Wrote 45 hymns and hundreds of poems to abolish slavery
John Whittier
Most beloved poet
Common themes in culture
Henry Longfellow
Trained doctors wrote pleasure poetry
Oliver Holmes
Wrote 1800 poems on ordinary topics, 7 published
Emily Dickinson
Traveled extensively, foreign settings, philosophical
Melville
first to use Yankee dialect
Hosea big low
Lost family
Lowell
Thoreau
Educated by nature
Lived by pond in a little house
Emerson
Most influential in shaping American literature
12 years practicing and perfecting writing
Hawthorne
Shiloh
Melville
Never saw a moor
Dickinson
Moby dick
Melville
Big low papers
Lowell