Exam 3 Terms

Question 1

Modernism

Answer 1

Shows “real” world with emotion and feeling. Emphasize fragmentation of experience. Can gain insight on human condition. rejects optimism
Author - Nina Baym
Context - University of Virginia’s Electronic Labyrinth

Question 2

True Americanism

Answer 2

Adopting to American customs and culture in order to be considered “American.”
Author - Theodore Roosevelt
Title - “True Americanism”
Context - Debates over true americanism

Question 3

Civic Nationalism

Answer 3

If one is interacting and contributing to a society, they are an american
Author - Anatol Lieven
Title - Thesis: Splendor and Tragedy of the American Creed
Context - Jefferson Tradition

Question 4

Degenerate Art

Answer 4

Modern Art the Nazi’s did not enjoy because it showcased real life and emotion and was “un-german”

• Nazi regime
• David Grubin, Degenerate Art

Question 5

Harlem Renaissance

Answer 5

Black Artists create art for themselves

- Langston Hughes

Question 6

Free Verse

Answer 6

No rhyme scheme, no meter, no rules

- Allen Ginsberg

Question 7

Amory Show

Answer 7

Where Modern Artists would display their work

- Oscar Bluemner

Question 8

Imagism

Answer 8

Simple direct language that captures an image

- Ezra Pond

Question 9

Chinese Exclusion Act

Answer 9

Laws that banned chinese immigration

- Asiatic Exclusion League “Burning Danger Signals”

Question 10

Atlanta Exposition Address

Answer 10

Speech saying African Americans should be passive and know their place in society
- Booker T Washington

Question 11

Dawes Act

Answer 11

Law that Allowed president to survey Native American lands and break up tribes
- Henry Dawes

Question 12

Ethnic Nationalism

Answer 12

Based on appearence, If one looks like the same as the “top” of society, one is considered and American

Question 13

Jacksonian or Frontier Tradition

Answer 13

The need to westerly expand the nation and own the land

- Anatol Lieven

Question 14

Great Migration

Answer 14

the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970
- Langston Hughes

Question 15

Jim Crow

Answer 15

A cultural attitude against African Americans making them inferior to whites
- Richard Wright

Question 16

Ballad

Answer 16

a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. Traditional ballads are typically of unknown authorship, having been passed on orally from one generation to the next as part of the folk culture
- Barton & Hudson

Question 17

Sonnet

Answer 17

a fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter, which employ one of several rhyme schemes and adhere to a tightly structured thematic organization.
- Barton & Hudson

Question 18

Double Conciousness

Answer 18

the individual sensation of feeling as though your identity is divided into several parts, making it difficult or impossible to have one unified identity.
Author - W.E.B. Du Bois

Question 19

Petrachan (italian) Sonnet

Answer 19

Consists on an Octave (eight lines) and after the turn, a sestet (six lines) rhyme scheme “abba”
- Barton & Hudson

Question 20

Shakespearean (english) Sonnet

Answer 20

Three quatrains (four lines) and a rhyming couplet (two lines) Rhyme Scheme "abab"
- Barton & Hudson