Flashcards for English - Short Story Unit
American regionalism/local color signified a break from what?
European tradition/influence, the Old World
At the end of the movie version of An Occurrence… what discrepancy is used?
The discrepancy between pscyhological time and real time
How did the count die?
He was stabbed on his way to the baron’s
Identify the literary movement: glorified nature, common man, strange/unfamiliar, fascination with traditions/beliefs/legend of the past, fantastic and supernatural
Romanticism
In Love of Life, what happened to Bill?
He probably died, since the man finds human bones and Bill’s sack of gold
In Love of Life, what was in the little sacks they carried?
Gold!
Irving and Cooper are two briefly-mentioned writers of what movement?
Romanticism
Is Butler right to offer Haskins a higher price on the land after Haskins has improved it?
Legally, yes. Ethically, no.
Realism was a reaction to what?
Shallow, optimisitc Romanticism
T/F: American writers produced the most works of quality and originality during the Romantic period.
TRUE
T/F: Hawthorne was one of the few Romantic writers that rarely used symbols.
False: he used a TON of symbols, as did many other Romantic writers.
T/F: Realism occurred primarily during the 1870s-early 1900s.
TRUE
T/F: Regionalism or local color was primary during the late 18th century.
False: late ninteenth (aka late 1800s)
T/F: Romanticism was primarily 1850-1855.
TRUE
What are some features of the Romantic movement?
focus on the supernatural, the common man, glorified nature, etc.
What companion does the man in Love of Life have towards the end of his journey? What happens?
A sick wolf: he bites the wolf’s neck and drinks a teeny bit of its blood
What do the scientific men think the man in Love of Life looks like?
a mosntrous worm
What does London suggest in Love of Life?
That man in the state of nature is essentially a beast
What does the man in Love of Life do on the boat?
Hoards his food
What genre is: Bret Harte?
regionalism
What genre is: Edgar Allen Poe?
romanticism
What genre is: Frank Norris?
realism
What genre is: George Washington Cable?
regionalism
What genre is: Hamlin Garland?
realism
What genre is: Herman Melville?
romanticism
What genre is: Jack London?
realism
What genre is: Mark Twain?
regionalism
What genre is: Nathaniel Hawthorne?
romanticism
What genre is: Sarah Orne Jewett?
regionalism
What genre is: Stephen Crane?
realism
What happened to Jean-ah Poquelin’s brother Jacques?
He becomes a leper and is hidden away in Jean-ah’s house: people think he’s a ghost
What is the Bedford?
The ship that the man in Love of Life eventually ends up on
What is the Commodore?
The ship that sunk, leaving the four men in The Open Boat to their… open boat.
What literary movement combines Romanticism and Realism?
Regionalism/local color
What literary movement highlighted hardship, debt, war, inequality, industrialization, etc.?
Realism
What movement began to change the American way of thinking, and what literary movement did this lead to?
Industrialism –> Realism
What one thing about the baron in the Specter Bridegroom affects his economy and life?
Pride
What prevents Haskins from killing Butler?
The sight of his baby daughter in the distance
What story includes a man who is abandoned by “Bill?”
Love of Life
What was key to the mometous development of the frontier, and thus local color?
Railroads, choo-choo…
What was one of the reasons local color arose?
American exploration and expansion past New England
What was the motivation for Regionalist literaure?
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
Where does the baron’s daughter see the specter after he leaves?
In her garden by her window
Which character in The Open Boat is probably Crane himself?
The correspondent
Which farmer helps Bill Haskins family?
Stephen Council
Which is the only purely romantic story out of the five?
The Specter Bridegroom
Which Regionalist writer depicted California life?
Bret Harte
Which Regionalist writer depicted Creole culture?
G.W. Cable (Jean-Ah Poquelin)
Which Regionalist writer depicted Maine culture?
Sarah Orne Jewett
Which Regionalist writer depicted Mississippi life?
Twain
Which Romantic writer experimented with allegory?
Melville
Which Romantic writer was of Puritan stock?
Hawthorne
Which story features an indigo planter who speaks in dialect?
Jean-ah Poquelin
Who are the four men in The Open Boat?
the captain, the cook, the correspondent, and the oiler (Billie)
Who are the three Romantic writers mentioned in the packet?
Poe, Hawthorne, Melville
Who helps stand up for Jean-ah Poquelin?
Little White, a kind-hearted and fearless secretary in the regional governmenty type thing
Who tries to eat a wolf?
The man in Love of Life
Who was the count supposed to marry in the Specter Bridegroom?
the baron’s daughter
Who was the specter bridegroom?
the count’s messenger
Who were the four Regionalist writers mentioned in the packet?
Bret Harte, Sarah Orne Jewett, Mark Twain, G.W. Cable
Who where the four primary Realist writers included in the packet?
Garland, Norris, Crane, London
Who’s the only one to die in The Open Boat?
Billie the oiler
Why didn’t the specter reveal who he was?
the baron basically wouldn’t let him, and he was starting to fall for the baron’s daughter anyway
