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Final Exam Flashcards

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Time period characterized by a simple, plain, and direct style; genres included journals and diaries; theme was God’s providence

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Colonial Era

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Authors included in the Colonial Period:

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  • Anne Bradstreet
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • Edward Taylor
  • John Smith
  • John Winthrop
  • Michael Wigglesworth
  • Phillis (“Njambi”) Wheatley
  • Roger Williams
  • William Bradford
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First poet to write verse in America (looks as if the girls win this one)

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Anne Bradstreet

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Wrote [Autobiography] and [Poor Richard’s Almanac] (he’s also a character in Assassin’s Creed: Rouge, AC: 3, and AC: Unity 😎)

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Benjamin Franklin

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Best Puritan poet, not published until 1939, and used metaphysical conceits

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Edward Taylor

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Affiliated with Pocahontas and Jamestown; wrote slightly exaggerated stories of his encounters; kissed Pocahontas in the historically inaccurate Disney movie (no, he wasn’t an ephebophile, and Pocahontas was only around 16 years old when he came to America. Screw Disney 😋)

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John Smith

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Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (M to W or W to M if you’re looking upside down)

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John Winthrop

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Most widely read Puritan poet (no, he is not affiliated with The WIGGLES in any way. He wrote about the apocolypse, guys. He wasn’t a fun dude)

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Michael Wigglesworth

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Second American woman to publish poetry, wrote “On Being Brought from Africa to America”, is Njambi’s ancestor (not really 👩🏿)

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Philips Wheatley

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Governor of Rhode Island; worked with Indians (because he wasn’t racist like everyone else 👦🏾)

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Roger Williams

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Father of American history; wrote [Of Plymouth Plantation]; the butthole who invented history 😒

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William Bradford

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Period characterized by derivations from myths and legends (because people were idiotically superstitious back then)

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Romantic Era

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Authors included in Romantic Era:

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  • Herman Melville
  • Washington Irving (I thought he was black!)
  • Edgar Allan Poe (the Kung-Fu Panda! No?)
  • William Cullen Bryant
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • James Fenimore Cooper
  • Emily Dickinson (REALLY IN HER OWN CATEGORY - what Mrs. Ellis said)
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne
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(Wrote about Moby’s D-…I mean) Wrote [Moby Dick]

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Herman Melville

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First American author to be international famous; stories were based of Dutch legends (that thieving, racist son of a Baptist preacher!); wrote Rip Van Winkle (he is the dude I thought was black but was white)

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Washington Irving

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Wrote “The Pit and the Pendulum” and the criteria for short stories; (got his name from a certain panda who knows Kung-Fu and was extremely depressing and a weirdo)

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Edgar Allan Poe

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Wrote “Thanatopsis” (because he was a weirdo who meditated on Death)

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William Cullen Bryant

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Wrote the [Leatherstocking Tales] (probably got that name from looking at men wearing leather stockings, I mean, who else comes up with the name Natty BUMPOO?)

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James Fenimore Cooper

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Recluse who dressed in white (that’s totally not racist); ahead of her time (also the person that Mrs. Ellis screamed, “REALLY IN HER OWN CATEGORY!!!” like a maniac)

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Emily Dickinson

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Wrote the (SECOND CRAPPIEST BOOK IN HUMAN HISTORY aside from [Silas Marner]) [Scarlet Letter]; constantly used themes of sin a guilt (probably because he knew his book sucked and doomed a generation of Rosedale Baptist juniors to suffer)

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Nathaniel Hawkthorne

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Period involving the Over-soul (😂) and stems from Unitarianism.

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Transcendentalist Era

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Authors of the Transcendentalist Era (because they wanted to be primitive monkeys so bad):

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  • Ralph (“Where’s Waldo?!”) Waldo Emerson
  • Henry David Thoreau (get it? ‘Cause he’s thorough? OK, shutting up)
  • Walt (“Disney”) Whitman
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Era characterized by traditional themes and the Schoolroom Poets (even if they probably never went to school):

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Fireside

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Authors of the Fireside Era (should’ve just burned them and their books 😈):

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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (he was one “long” fellow)
  • John Greenleaf (really? He couldn’t think of something better like Grayrock or Browntrunk?) Whittier (that has hints of racism…)
  • Oliver (“Sherlock”) Wendell Holmes
  • James Russell Lowell (pronounced “LOL”)
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Wrote “Self-Reliance”; founder of (the brain-dead cult) of Transcendentalism; wrote [Nature] (also the guy we have to look for in “Where’s Waldo?”)

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Wrote [Walden]; believed in civil disobedience (this system is broke yo!)

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Henry David Thoreau

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Said, “I was simmering…” (was probably in a hot tub when thinking this); wrote “Leaves of Grass” (funny, grass doesn’t HAVE leaves); wrote “O Captain, My Captain!” (because he was part of the Lincoln Fanclub for Gay Fanboys)

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Walt Whitman

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Wrote “Song of Hiawatha”; only American to have a bust in Westminster Abbey (probably because his bust was bigger than any man ever….probably because he was actually a woman)

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Was a Quaker (made oatmeal); wrote “Snowbound”; threw “Leaves of Grass” into the fire (my man!)

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John Greenleaf Whittier

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Known as Mr. Boston; wrote “Old Ironsides”

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Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Wrote “A Fable for Critics” (name sounds like “LOL”)

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James Russell Lowell

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Authors of the Realism Era (my kind of people!):

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  • Hamlin Garland
  • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
  • Bret Harte
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Author who exposed the land speculation system (down with the system! 👎🏼)

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Hamlin Garland

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Wrote about New England spinsters (like Mrs. Ellis)

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Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

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Wrote of the West

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Bret Harte

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Era characterized by drastic experimentalism:

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Modern Era

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Authors of the Modern Era:

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  • e. e. cummings (obviously, this guy couldn’t spell
  • Ernest Hemingway
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Joyce Kilmer
  • Paul Lawrence Dunbar
  • Pearl S. Buck
  • Ray Bradbury
  • Robert Frost (“cool” LAST name)
  • Carl Sandburg(er)
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Experimented with capitalism and punctuation (also couldn’t spell)

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e. e. cummings

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Was an ambulance driver in WWII

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Ernest Hemingway

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Wrote about the emptiness of the Roaring 20s; wrote [The Great Gatsby] (that was a boring movie)

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Wrote “Trees” (which I would like to point out to Mrs. Ellis that no one even quotes the stupid thing)

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Joyce Kilmer

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First black poet to use black dialect (seriously? No other black poet used “yo dawg” or “but I’m notta rappah”? That’s racist)

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Paul Lawrence Dunbar

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Wrote “Missionary Child to China”

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Pearl S. Buck

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Wrote “The Pedestrian” (when the government turned into the biggest buttholes in the world)

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Ray Bradbury

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Most popular poet in the 20th century

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Robert Frost

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Poet from Chicago; wrote “Fog”

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Carl Sandburg

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Who’s the worst person ever?

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Scott Fitzgerald, because F. him

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