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Flashcards for English - Short Story Unit

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1
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American regionalism/local color signified a break from what?

A

European tradition/influence, the Old World

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At the end of the movie version of An Occurrence… what discrepancy is used?

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The discrepancy between pscyhological time and real time

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3
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How did the count die?

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He was stabbed on his way to the baron’s

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4
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Identify the literary movement: glorified nature, common man, strange/unfamiliar, fascination with traditions/beliefs/legend of the past, fantastic and supernatural

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Romanticism

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In Love of Life, what happened to Bill?

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He probably died, since the man finds human bones and Bill’s sack of gold

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In Love of Life, what was in the little sacks they carried?

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Gold!

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Irving and Cooper are two briefly-mentioned writers of what movement?

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Romanticism

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Is Butler right to offer Haskins a higher price on the land after Haskins has improved it?

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Legally, yes. Ethically, no.

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Realism was a reaction to what?

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Shallow, optimisitc Romanticism

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T/F: American writers produced the most works of quality and originality during the Romantic period.

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TRUE

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T/F: Hawthorne was one of the few Romantic writers that rarely used symbols.

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False: he used a TON of symbols, as did many other Romantic writers.

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T/F: Realism occurred primarily during the 1870s-early 1900s.

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TRUE

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14
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T/F: Regionalism or local color was primary during the late 18th century.

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False: late ninteenth (aka late 1800s)

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T/F: Romanticism was primarily 1850-1855.

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TRUE

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What are some features of the Romantic movement?

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focus on the supernatural, the common man, glorified nature, etc.

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17
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What companion does the man in Love of Life have towards the end of his journey? What happens?

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A sick wolf: he bites the wolf’s neck and drinks a teeny bit of its blood

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18
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What do the scientific men think the man in Love of Life looks like?

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a mosntrous worm

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19
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What does London suggest in Love of Life?

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That man in the state of nature is essentially a beast

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20
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What does the man in Love of Life do on the boat?

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Hoards his food

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21
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What genre is: Bret Harte?

A

regionalism

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22
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What genre is: Edgar Allen Poe?

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romanticism

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23
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What genre is: Frank Norris?

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realism

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24
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What genre is: George Washington Cable?

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regionalism

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25
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What genre is: Hamlin Garland?

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realism

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26
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What genre is: Herman Melville?

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romanticism

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27
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What genre is: Jack London?

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realism

28
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What genre is: Mark Twain?

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regionalism

29
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What genre is: Nathaniel Hawthorne?

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romanticism

30
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What genre is: Sarah Orne Jewett?

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regionalism

31
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What genre is: Stephen Crane?

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realism

32
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What happened to Jean-ah Poquelin’s brother Jacques?

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He becomes a leper and is hidden away in Jean-ah’s house: people think he’s a ghost

33
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What is the Bedford?

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The ship that the man in Love of Life eventually ends up on

34
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What is the Commodore?

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The ship that sunk, leaving the four men in The Open Boat to their… open boat.

35
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What literary movement combines Romanticism and Realism?

A

Regionalism/local color

36
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What literary movement highlighted hardship, debt, war, inequality, industrialization, etc.?

A

Realism

37
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What movement began to change the American way of thinking, and what literary movement did this lead to?

A

Industrialism –> Realism

38
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What one thing about the baron in the Specter Bridegroom affects his economy and life?

A

Pride

39
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What prevents Haskins from killing Butler?

A

The sight of his baby daughter in the distance

40
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What story includes a man who is abandoned by “Bill?”

A

Love of Life

41
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What was key to the mometous development of the frontier, and thus local color?

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Railroads, choo-choo…

42
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What was one of the reasons local color arose?

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American exploration and expansion past New England

43
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What was the motivation for Regionalist literaure?

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National interest in the American scene: Americans wanted to read about what was going on elsewhere in the country, and to get an accurate description of life there

44
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Where does the baron’s daughter see the specter after he leaves?

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In her garden by her window

45
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Which character in The Open Boat is probably Crane himself?

A

The correspondent

46
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Which farmer helps Bill Haskins family?

A

Stephen Council

47
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Which is the only purely romantic story out of the five?

A

The Specter Bridegroom

48
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Which Regionalist writer depicted California life?

A

Bret Harte

49
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Which Regionalist writer depicted Creole culture?

A

G.W. Cable (Jean-Ah Poquelin)

50
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Which Regionalist writer depicted Maine culture?

A

Sarah Orne Jewett

51
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Which Regionalist writer depicted Mississippi life?

A

Twain

52
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Which Romantic writer experimented with allegory?

A

Melville

53
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Which Romantic writer was of Puritan stock?

A

Hawthorne

54
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Which story features an indigo planter who speaks in dialect?

A

Jean-ah Poquelin

55
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Who are the four men in The Open Boat?

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the captain, the cook, the correspondent, and the oiler (Billie)

56
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Who are the three Romantic writers mentioned in the packet?

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Poe, Hawthorne, Melville

57
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Who helps stand up for Jean-ah Poquelin?

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Little White, a kind-hearted and fearless secretary in the regional governmenty type thing

58
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Who tries to eat a wolf?

A

The man in Love of Life

59
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Who was the count supposed to marry in the Specter Bridegroom?

A

the baron’s daughter

60
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Who was the specter bridegroom?

A

the count’s messenger

61
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Who were the four Regionalist writers mentioned in the packet?

A

Bret Harte, Sarah Orne Jewett, Mark Twain, G.W. Cable

62
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Who where the four primary Realist writers included in the packet?

A

Garland, Norris, Crane, London

63
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Who’s the only one to die in The Open Boat?

A

Billie the oiler

64
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Why didn’t the specter reveal who he was?

A

the baron basically wouldn’t let him, and he was starting to fall for the baron’s daughter anyway

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