Semester 2 Final

Question 0

Stephen Crane:

-Literary style

Answer 0

• Interwove fiction with real life
• Situational irony
• Heroism

Question 1

Stephen Crane:

-Bio

Answer 1

• War correspondent and journalist

- First American to write realistically about war

Question 2

Stephen Crane:

-Major Works

Answer 2

• “A Mystery of Heroism”

- Red Badge of Courage

Question 3

Stephen Crane:

Realism/Naturalism

Answer 3

• Explores heroism/foolishness
• Focuses on rash young man (realism)
• Local color
• Realistic depiction of war

Question 4

William Faulkner:

-Bio

Answer 4

• Southern boy
• Joined Canadian Air Force
• Dropped out of school
• Won Nobel Prize in literature

Question 5

William Faulkner:

-Writing style

Answer 5

• Intentive, experimental with psychological action, stream of consciousness
• Symbols, fracture time
• Short stories and novels
• Moral/economic decline of South

Question 6

William Faulkner:

-Major works

Answer 6

• “A Rose for Emily”
• Soldier’s Pay
• “Barn Burning”

Question 7

William Faulkner:

-Realism/Naturalism

Answer 7

• Depicts every day life in small town
• Deals with death (Emily’s life fated to be bad)
• Characters confused about values
• Characters conflict with South

Question 8

F. Scott Fitzgerald:

-Bio

Answer 8

• Obsessed with wealth and success
• Attended Princeton
• Fell in love with debutante (Zelda) and had stormy life
• Partier, spent money fast

Question 9

F. Scott Fitzgerald:

-Literary style

Answer 9

• Lyricism of prose
• Dramatic situations that disclose setting of the emptiness/hope in world
• Extravagant

Question 10

F. Scott Fitzgerald:

-Major works

Answer 10

• The Great Gatsby

- “Bernice Bobs Her Hair”

Question 11

F. Scott Fitzgerald:

-Realism/naturalism

Answer 11

• Daisy and Gatsby fated to not be together (naturalism)
• Plot driven, centered around Daisy/Gatsby conflict
• Life mirrored fiction
• Can’t escape history/heredity

Question 12

Ernest Hemingway:

-Bio

Answer 12

• Wounded in WWII
• Life packed with action
• “Manly man”, football/boxing star, in Europe as a war correspondent
• Part of Lost Generation

Question 13

Ernest Hemingway:

-Literary style

Answer 13

• Records thoughts, actions, etc.
• Terse rhythms, factual
• Simple dialogue
• Iceberg theory
• Emotional detachment
• Code Hero

Question 14

Ernest Hemingway:

-Major works

Answer 14

“Short and Happy Life of Francis Macomber”

-“A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”

Question 15

Ernest Hemingway:

-Realism/Naturalism

Answer 15

• Concerned with tangible laws
• Make most of life
• People subject to natural law
• Pessimistic views

Question 16

John Steinbeck:

-Bio

Answer 16

• California
• Blue collar worker
• Social critic
• Great Depression

Question 17

John Steinbeck:

-Literary Style

Answer 17

• Wrote about poor, (believed had purer morals)
• Realistic/imaginative writing
• Vivid settings
• Liked to know material at hand

Question 18

John Steinbeck:

-Literary works

Answer 18

• Of Mice and Men

- “Pastures of Heaven–Molly Morgan”

Question 19

John Steinbeck:

-Realism/Naturalism

Answer 19

• Social problems
• Ordinary settings of characters
• Characters slave to environment, heredity
• (Social protest literature)

Question 20

J.D. Salinger:

-Major works

Answer 20

• The Catcher in the Rye

- (A recluse, not much is known about him)

Question 21

Thornton Wilder:

-Literary style

Answer 21

-Breaks down confinements to convey universal meanings

Question 22

Thornton Wilder:

-Major Works

Answer 22

-“Our Town”

Question 23

Thornton Wilder:

-Realism/naturalism

Answer 23

• Objectivism of stage manager

- Ordinary settings and characters

Question 24

Realism

Answer 24

• Portrays life as it is
• Plain, every day folk, local color
• Focus on individual
• Tangible world
• Problems of real people

Question 25

Naturalism

Answer 25

• Darker side of humanity
• Humans at mercy of uncontrollable forces
• Heredity, environment, chance control destiny
• Nature=cruel
• Animalistic drives
• Objectivity