English 3 Final Literature Flashcards
Most of American drama in the 1800s can be described as
Mild and sentimental, rarely challenging accepted traditions
American romantic writers rejected rationalism because they believed that
Scientific reasoning discouraged intuition and spontaneity
During the jazz age, many American writers and artists
Lived as expatriates in France
Short stories like Donald Barthelme’s “sentence” and “game” and novels like Walter Abish’s Alphabetical Africa are notable for their
Nontraditional forms and structures
The greatest legacy of the French and Spain explorers was
Written accounts of the new world in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
Although regional writers realistically portrayed speech patterns and mannerisms of a relatively small geographical area, they
Were often unrealistic in writing about character and social environment
Both the dark romantics and transcendentalists
Saw signs and symbols in human events
Which if the following statements about Herman Melville’s response to the civil war is not true?
He wrote a novel about the war based on his visits to battlefields
Whitman’s feelings about his own poems are best revealed by his
Belief that they were important enough to publish at his own expense
Whittier threw a volume of Walt Whitman’s poetry into the fire because
He didn’t appreciate the innovations in Whitman’s work
Which of the following statements best describes the psychological novels of Henry James?
They open the inner mind to the techniques of fiction
A great novel of the civil war was not written until long after the war had ended because
The proper vehicle for such strong material, the realistic novel, had not yet been fully developed in the United States
After World War I, American writers began to
Grow cynical about traditional authority and values
Some American poets were inspired by modernist european painters and began to use their imagery and symbolism, while others looked to
Traditional forms and ordinary speech
In the transcendentalist view of the world
Everything is a reflection of the divine soul
Through gothic novels, romantic writers explored
Mysteries linked to the subconscious mind
Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov were innovative
European playwrights who realistically presented characters and situations
The writings of an ironist may typically
Juxtapose human pretensions with the indifference of the universe
A growing interest in psychoanalysis led writers to
Try to capture their characters’ thought processes
Postmodern poetry can be described as
A rebellion against impersonal poetry that emphasizes intellectual analysis
The first important figure in America drama is generally considered to be
Eugene O’ Neill
Harvard college was founded soon after the first pilgrims landed
To train ministers for the rapidly expanding colony
Dickinson sis not achieve fame during her lifetime because
Most of her poetry was not published until after her death
The typical american romantic hero was
Deeply intuitive and ruled by superior principles
Because few major American writers experienced the civil war firsthand,
Very little important poetry and fiction emerged directly from this war
One of the characteristics of postmodern fiction is the use of
No traditional forms that blur the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction
The philosophical embraced by Ralph Waldo Emerson’s transcendentalists had its roots in all of the following except
Eighteenth-century rational thought exemplified by Benjamin Franklin
New journalists like Truman capote and Joan didion attracted attention by
Asserting the writer’s personal presence in nonfiction pieces
Dickinson’s poems flowed from her
Rich internal life and close observation of nature
Poets of the Harlem Renaissance wrote American poetry that involved
Ghetto speech and rhythms from jazz and blues
Contemporary writers like Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph heller have described war as
A reflection of the madness of modern life
Which of the following statements about Ralph Waldo Emerson is true?
He helped inspire numerous reform movements
