Semester 2 Final Flashcards
Kerouac calls to Ginsberg’s attention a dead gray sunflower amid piles of junk. Does Ginsberg think it’s ugly?
No
On the road: Religion from which many of its analogies are from
Eastern Hindu
Ginsberg’s work is most similar to that of which late romantic poet?
Whitman
On the road: Main Character, represents Jack Kerouac
Sal paradise
On the road: this character is searching for his missing father
Dean Moriorty
On the road: character in New Orleans with whom sal and dean stay
My old bullce
On the road: city which always seems to be Sal’s pacific destination
San Francisco
On the road: where does dean abandon sal after finding “IT”
Mexico
On the road: is dean “mad”? true or false?
True
On the road: what is the metaphysical, transcendent self-awareness described in the novel
IT
The two spheres of influence into which the world is split after WWI
Communism (Russia)
Democratic (USA)
Theory that “if we stop communism, it will spread until the whole world is communist”
Domino
Kerouac’s definition of “Beat”
Beatific
Writer who described the Beat movement as “at the bottom of the world, rejected by society…”
Jack Kerouac
Author: a Rose for Emily
William Faulkner
A Rose for Emily: whose funeral begins the story
A Rose for Emily
A Rose for Emily: did she leave her house?
No
A Rose for Emily: what does she buy at the drugstore
Rat poison
A Rose for Emily: with whose decaying body had she been sleeping
Homer
Flannery O’Connor’s short story about a traveling bible salesmen
Good country people
Flannery O’Connor’s short story about a family on vacation
A Good Man is Hard to Find
A good man is hard to find: to where is the family traveling
Florida
A good man is hard to find: who is the escaped convict
The Misfit
A good man is hard to find: the grandmother convinces the family to turn off what in search of a plantation that actually lies in Tennessee
The road
Good Country People: doctor of philosophy with a fake leg
Hope-helge
Good Country People: what are actually in the bibles Mr. Pointer sells
Who key
What is the name of the movement that followed naturalism
Modernism
according to naturalists, life is a struggle for survival in which not the fittest but the most ________ prevail
Strongest/ruthless
Author: to build a fire
Jack London
To Build a Fire: what is the name of the traveller
Man
Realism suggests that nature is
Indifferent
In Chickamauga, a small boy pretends to be a what?
Soldier
This story follows the survivors of a shipwreck
The Open Boat
In this story, a person imagines his escape as he dies brutally
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
This satirical work features a congregation of praying for success in war
War prayer
Work: “just you drown me, now, and then hear what I call you!”
Open Boat
Work: “suddenly he saw before him a strange moving object which he took to be some large animal—a dog, a pig—he could not name it… They were men.”
Chickamauga
Robinson’s work depicting a drinking clergymember
Cheevy
Robinson’s work depicting a seemingly perfect individual; ends with a twist
Richard Cory
T.S. Elliot was an
Existentialist
Existentialist fears include: alienation, loneliness, and ……
Death
Elliot’s work in which this quote appears: “Time for you and time for me/ And time yet for a hundred indecisions/ And for a hundred visions and revisions.”
The love story of Alfred Prufrock
Elliot’s work about people stuck in limbo
Hollow man
This most famous modernist quote comes from which writer? “This is the way the world ends/Not with a bang, but with a whimper.”
T.S. Eliot
Who is Eliot’s chronic procrastinator
J Alfred Prufrock
extreme modernism
Nihilism
The name of the movement that responded to the sense of social breakdown between two World Wars
Modernism/existentialism
The “war to end all wars”
WWI
This action, enacted by a constitutional amendment, contributed to a rise in organized crime
Alcohol prohibition (18th amendment)
Amendment that granted women’s suffrage
19th
The “New Woman”
Flappers
Theorist who said that people are controlled by unconscious forces within the self
Freud
Theorist who said that people are controlled by economic forces outside the self
Marx
Modernism: this movement “depicted a sense of social _______”
Breakdown
Do modernism works usually have explanation or interpretations?
No
The mass movement that freed slaves to northern cities
The great migration
Laws that unconstitutionally restricted the rights of freed slaves
Jim Crow
WHAT types of jobs boomed after WWI
Factory
This type of music represented a celebration of life; it’s improvisational, collaborative style made it very engaging to many people. Also, what was the name of this movement?
Jazz
Harlem Renaissance
In which city was the Harlem renaissance concentrated
NYC
Author: The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald
Great Gatsby: who is the narrator
Nick Carraway
Great Gatsby: what is the narrators profession
A bond broke
Great Gatsby:’The novels protagonist
Nick C
Great Gatsby: the “new money” side of Long Island
West egg
Gatsby’s real name
James Gatz (changed if to Jay Gatz)
How did Gatsby make his millions
Bootlegging
Great Gatsby: Nick’s cousin; Tom’s wife
Daisy
Great Gatsby: this person has an affair with Myrtle Baker
Tom
Great Gatsby: myrtle bakers husband
George
Gatsby’s huge events
Parties
Did Gatsby really attend oxford ?
Not really… Only went for a semester
Great Gatsby: who was driving the car that hit Myrtle
Daisy
Great Gatsby: who tells George where to find the person that “killed Myrtle”?
Tom
This person arranges gatsby’s funeral, which only few attend
Nick
Beloved: this person says, “you your best thing, Sethe”
Paul D
Identify the work: “…of all animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for pleasure of doing it.”
Dammed Human Race
Identify the work: “Ye have prayed it; if ye still desire it, speak! The messenger of the Most High waits!”
War prayer
Author: dammed human race
Twain
Author: Chickamauga
Bierce
Author: the open boat
Crane
T or F: realism says that being nice won’t get you anywhere in life
True
“Survival of the fittest”
Social Darwinism
Realism: from which person did this movement take many of its cues
Charles Darwin
Realism: Biological and _________ forces determined the character of society and the fate of the individual
Economic
Whitman first work; this collection contains Song of Myself
Leaves of Grass
Fill in the Whitman quote: “I _______ myself and ______ myself.”
Sing
Celebrate
“I sound my barbaric _________ “
Yamp
Walt whitman emphasizes what kind of experience
First-hand
“I am the poet of the _____ and I am the poet of the ______ “
Body; soul
Around when did the pilgrims land at Plymouth
1920
“It is right; it is their duty to abolish such government, and provide new guards for their future security.” Around when were these words agreed upon among the 13 colonies? And in what document are these words held?
1776; Declaration of Independence
After Romanticism/Transcendentalism peAked, it faded rather quickly after Walt Whitman. What event facilitated this rapid change ? And when did it occur?
The civil war; 1861
Writer & work: “and so, all night-tide, I lie down by the side of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride, in the sepulcher there by the sea—in her tomb by the surrounding sea.”
Poe: Annabel Lee
Author: “art is long, and time is fleeting, and our hearts, though stout and brave, still, like the muffled drums are beating….”
Longfellow
Author & work: “TRUE—NERVOUS—VERY, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?….Hearken!…”
Poe: fall of the house of usher
Nature is portrayed in realism as what
Indifferent
Author & work: “There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil! For to thee is this world given.”
Hawthorne: Goodman brown
Author & work: “the virtue in most request is conformity..”
Emerson; self reliance
Author & work: “Madman! I tell you that she now stands without that door!”
Poe; usher
Who said “simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!… I say, let your affairs be two or three and not a hundred of a thousand” ?
Thoreau in Walden
The Raven: The single word uttered by the raven
Nevermore
This character hears his sister in the tomb
Roderick
Rappaccini’s daughter
Beatrice
One of the two ancient civilizations which heavily influenced the romantics
Greek
Gangly teacher who meets the horseman
Ichabod
He sibling in Poe’s story who is artistically sensitive
Rodrick
Transcendentalist at temp at a pastoral, utopian, community
Brook Farm
Literature before WWI depicted a ________ society chronicling a universal human experience
Stable
Literature between the world wars conveyed a vision of ________ ________, and tried to develop an art that would address these concerns
Social decay
Modernist writers were often sparing of words and often use _______ narrators (children, adults with troubled mentality)
Naivë
Four key elements of realism
- Analytical observation
- Commonplace/ordinary
- Writer as critic
- Darwinism
Realism: analytical observation
~ writer notes exactly what happens without interruption
~ doesn’t comment! just presents
~ people often lack names
Realism: commonplace/ordinary
~ often deals with material seen as immoral
~ a serious treatment of everyday life
Realism element: Writer as a critic
~ writing not merely to entertain! but to examine society & their causes
Realism element: Darwinism
~ “Man in the jungle”
~ “Survival of the fittest”
~ human beings caught in a savage struggle
~ victims of forces beyond their control
Alan Ginsberg’s poem about a dead sunflower
Sunflower santra
