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Regionalism Flashcards

1
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The setting is frequently in _____ and ______ on the limitations it imposes; ______ are frequently ______ and inaccessible. The setting is integral to the _____ and may sometimes become a _____ in itself.

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  1. nature
  2. focuses
  3. setting
  4. remote
  5. story
  6. character
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The _____ sometimes severs mediator between the ____ folk in the tale and the ______ audience to whom the tale is being told.

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  1. narrator
  2. rural
  3. urban
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______ is often used to help establish the creditability and authenticity of the regional characters.

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dialect

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4
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Authors often choose to use a frame story in which the _______ hears some tales of the region.

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narrator

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In women’s regionalist fiction, the ______ are often ______ women or _______ girls.

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  1. heroines
  2. unmarried
  3. young
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6
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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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New England

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Edith Wharton

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New England

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8
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Kate Chopin

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southern

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9
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Harper Lee

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southern

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10
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James Thurber

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Midwestern

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Sinclair Lewis

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Midwestern

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12
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Bret Harte

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western

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13
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Wila Cather

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western

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14
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Gertrude Simmons

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great plains

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15
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Bonnin

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Great Plains

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16
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who wrote A Worn Path

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Eudora Whelty

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17
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born and raised in Jackson, Ms.

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Eudora Whelty

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18
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was apart of a literary movement known as the Southern Renaissance

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Eudora Whelty

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19
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her fist short story was “ Death of Traveling Salesman” that was published in 1936

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Eudora Whelty

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she was awarded The national insitute of arts and letters gold metal for fiction in1972

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Eudora Whelty

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this story involves an elderly woman who periodically goes along a worn path to the city

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a worn path

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a _______ is a mythical Egyptian bird that never dies because _________________________.

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  1. Pheonix

2. it rises from its own ashes after consuming itself in flames

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23
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he had an eye injury as a child and lost sight in one eye and ater lost sight in his other eye and became blind

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James thurber

24
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he was a writer, reported a humorist and a cartoonsit

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thurber

25
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born in Savannah, Georgia

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Flannery O’Conner

26
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a devout Christian who dealt with concepts of man’s fall from grace and redemption through Christ

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o’conner

27
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often contains hypocrisy

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O’Conner’s style

28
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characters often seem monstrous

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O’Conner’s style

29
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“A Good Man is Hard to Fine”

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O’conner

30
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” The Life You Save May Be Your Own”

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O’conner

31
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set in Rural Alabama in the 40s

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The life you save may be your own

32
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Mr. Shiftlet is the stories ________. He is ______ and is is a __________ and his only purpose in life Is to _____ people

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  1. protagonist
  2. shiftless
  3. cheat
33
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he did manual labor to support himself while he wrote

A

Steinback

34
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won the noel peace prize for lit in 1962

A

steinback

35
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who wrote Of Mice and Men

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Seinback

36
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who wrote Grapes of Wrath

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Steinback

37
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he published his first work at the age of 11 but it was not well relieved by his family

A

Harte

38
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He worked as a messenger for Wells Fargo

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Harte

39
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who wrote “ A Yellow Dog”

A

Harte

40
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who wrote “ The Outcast of Poker Flat”

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Harte

41
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his setting and plot often centered around this stories of mining camps and towns

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Harte’s style

42
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the critics felt that he used to much sentimentality in his writing and failed to show originality to his themes and plots

A

Harte

43
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______ is credited with the invention of the ______ characters that would later becomes staples in Westerns

A
  1. Harte

2. stock

44
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who created the roving gambler, the tainted woman with a heart of gold, and the restless cowboy

A

Harte

45
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attented the St. Louis academy of the Sacred heart as a young girl

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chopin

46
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her father died in a railroad accident

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chopin

47
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at 32 she became a widow and found herself raising 6 kids

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chopin

48
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she focused her writing on her feelings.

specifically the feelings of women and their desires amended for independence

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chopin

49
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who wrote “ The Story of an Hour”

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chopin

50
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who wrote “ The Awakening”

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chopin

51
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lived in both New York and Rural Nebraska

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Cather

52
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who wrote “O, Pioneers!”

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Cather

53
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who wrote “My Antonia”

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Wila Cather

54
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She received the Gold medal of the national institute of the American academy of arts and letters for her works

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Wila Cather

55
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said to of invented the westerns

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Harte

56
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predecessor of the romance novels

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chopin

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