English 3 Final Literature Flashcards

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Most of American drama in the 1800s can be described as

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Mild and sentimental, rarely challenging accepted traditions

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American romantic writers rejected rationalism because they believed that

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Scientific reasoning discouraged intuition and spontaneity

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During the jazz age, many American writers and artists

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Lived as expatriates in France

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Short stories like Donald Barthelme’s “sentence” and “game” and novels like Walter Abish’s Alphabetical Africa are notable for their

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Nontraditional forms and structures

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The greatest legacy of the French and Spain explorers was

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Written accounts of the new world in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries

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Although regional writers realistically portrayed speech patterns and mannerisms of a relatively small geographical area, they

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Were often unrealistic in writing about character and social environment

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Both the dark romantics and transcendentalists

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Saw signs and symbols in human events

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Which if the following statements about Herman Melville’s response to the civil war is not true?

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He wrote a novel about the war based on his visits to battlefields

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Whitman’s feelings about his own poems are best revealed by his

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Belief that they were important enough to publish at his own expense

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Whittier threw a volume of Walt Whitman’s poetry into the fire because

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He didn’t appreciate the innovations in Whitman’s work

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Which of the following statements best describes the psychological novels of Henry James?

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They open the inner mind to the techniques of fiction

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A great novel of the civil war was not written until long after the war had ended because

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The proper vehicle for such strong material, the realistic novel, had not yet been fully developed in the United States

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After World War I, American writers began to

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Grow cynical about traditional authority and values

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Some American poets were inspired by modernist european painters and began to use their imagery and symbolism, while others looked to

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Traditional forms and ordinary speech

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In the transcendentalist view of the world

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Everything is a reflection of the divine soul

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Through gothic novels, romantic writers explored

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Mysteries linked to the subconscious mind

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Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov were innovative

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European playwrights who realistically presented characters and situations

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The writings of an ironist may typically

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Juxtapose human pretensions with the indifference of the universe

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A growing interest in psychoanalysis led writers to

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Try to capture their characters’ thought processes

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Postmodern poetry can be described as

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A rebellion against impersonal poetry that emphasizes intellectual analysis

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The first important figure in America drama is generally considered to be

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Eugene O’ Neill

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Harvard college was founded soon after the first pilgrims landed

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To train ministers for the rapidly expanding colony

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Dickinson sis not achieve fame during her lifetime because

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Most of her poetry was not published until after her death

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The typical american romantic hero was

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Deeply intuitive and ruled by superior principles

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Because few major American writers experienced the civil war firsthand,

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Very little important poetry and fiction emerged directly from this war

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One of the characteristics of postmodern fiction is the use of

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No traditional forms that blur the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction

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The philosophical embraced by Ralph Waldo Emerson’s transcendentalists had its roots in all of the following except

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Eighteenth-century rational thought exemplified by Benjamin Franklin

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New journalists like Truman capote and Joan didion attracted attention by

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Asserting the writer’s personal presence in nonfiction pieces

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Dickinson’s poems flowed from her

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Rich internal life and close observation of nature

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Poets of the Harlem Renaissance wrote American poetry that involved

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Ghetto speech and rhythms from jazz and blues

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Contemporary writers like Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph heller have described war as

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A reflection of the madness of modern life

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Which of the following statements about Ralph Waldo Emerson is true?

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He helped inspire numerous reform movements

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Which of the following statements about the English puritans is not true?

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They believed that the clergy and government should act as intermediaries between the individual and god

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After the civil war, a generation of writers known as realists sought to

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Accurately portray life without filtering it through romanticism

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Rationalists believed that all people

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Could think in an ordered manner, thereby improving their lives

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Because puritans believed that the arrival of god’s grace was demonstrated by saintly behavior

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They tried to behave in as exemplary a way as possible

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Whitman’s style and technique are based on cadence, which is the

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Rhythm and long sweeps of sound used by great speakers

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In general, postmodern literature can be viewed as

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Open to multiple interpretations, and it frequently comments on itself

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The leading american absurdist playwright is

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Edward Albee

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Having seen the horrors of the civil war firsthand as a union camp hospital volunteer, Walt Whitman

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Was still able to retain an optimistic view of the character of Americans

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Utopian communities were founded with the intention of

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Creating a more perfect society

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The behavior of the charcters created by some naturalist writers

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Was crude, instinctive, and subject to the natural laws of the universe

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Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville both

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Explored the dark side of human existence in their work

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Current American drama

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Revolts against realism

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American modernist writers managed to

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Create a literature that reflects many American voices

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The Provincetown players and the Washington square players

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Placed themselves in opposition to the established commercial theater

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Which of the following statements is not true of Arthur miller and Tennessee Williams?

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Miller has been called the “playwright of our souls”: Williams has been called the “playwright of our social concerns.”

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To highlight the ideas in her poems, Dickinson

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Uses carefully measured rhymes and meters

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Dickinson’s poetry is noted for its emphasis on

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Precise wording and unique poetic forms

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Since the 1970s, American poetry has

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Been characterized by diverse voices and styles

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Which sentence states an opinion held by American romantic writers?

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Cities are centers if corruption and ugliness

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Nonfiction has become as much of an art form as fiction or poetry because

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Contemporary nonfiction often incorporates literary elements such as suspense, symbolism, and characterization

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From the beginning, Whitman expected his poetry to be

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Carried like a message into the future

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Many American modernist writers

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Maintained a vision of America as Eden

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Expressionist drama aims to

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Reveal the inner consciousness of characters

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The modernist movement challenged American writers to

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Find new themes, subjects, and styles for their work

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The American fireside poets are best known for their

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Comfortable subjects appealing to families

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American romantic writers believed that poetry was

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The greatest witness to the power of imagination

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Cotton Mather is best remembered in the annals of science as the

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Experimenter who began a public campaign for inoculation against smallpox

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Many absurdist plays may be only one act because

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They present an image which needs little development

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According to the introduction, the chief drawback of the spread of technology

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Dehumanization of the individual

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The first flowering of a. Uniquely American literature, sometimes referred to as the American Renaissance, was directly influenced by

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Intellectual and social ferment in New England

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The literary form in which heroes and heroines live idealist lives beyond the level of everyday life is called the

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Romantic novel

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The plays of miller and Williams

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Rely heavily on realism

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Unlike european romantic novelists, American romantic novelists were particularly inspired by

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Wilderness and the westward expansion

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According to the deists, the best form of worship was

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Doing good for others

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An important similarity between Whitman and Dickinson is their

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Willingness to break away from literary conventions

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Which of the following statements nest describes Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography

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It provides the model for the classic American rags-to-riches story

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The source of Emerson’s optimism was

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His belief that we can directly find a benevolent god in nature

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The mayflower compact paved the way for

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A constitutional democracy

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As literary models, american romantic poets used

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Poems by established european romantics

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Until the beginning of the twentieth century, all of the following were part of the American dream except a

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Respect for the mysterious workings of the subconscious mind

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Ernst Hemingway created major characters who

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Behave honorably in a world without purpose

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Whitman developed a free-verse style, which is

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Poetry without predictable end rhyme or meter

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The journey in American romantic literature can best be characterized as

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leaving civilization and entering the world of nature

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U.S. Involvement in the Vietnam war

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Sharply divided the American public

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Reform movements during the first half of the nineteenth century included campaigns for

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Improving public education

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Which of the following statements best describes the influence of Dickinson and Whitman on later poets?

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Their development of vastly different but equally important personal styles has inspired generations of poets

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The Lyceum movement was an expression of New England’s interest in

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Self-improvement and intellectual inquiry

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The first people to migrate to North America were

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Ice age hunters via the Bering land bridge