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Semester 2 Final Flashcards

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Kerouac calls to Ginsberg’s attention a dead gray sunflower amid piles of junk. Does Ginsberg think it’s ugly?

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No

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On the road: Religion from which many of its analogies are from

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Eastern Hindu

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Ginsberg’s work is most similar to that of which late romantic poet?

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Whitman

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On the road: Main Character, represents Jack Kerouac

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Sal paradise

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On the road: this character is searching for his missing father

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Dean Moriorty

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On the road: character in New Orleans with whom sal and dean stay

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My old bullce

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On the road: city which always seems to be Sal’s pacific destination

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San Francisco

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On the road: where does dean abandon sal after finding “IT”

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Mexico

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On the road: is dean “mad”? true or false?

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True

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On the road: what is the metaphysical, transcendent self-awareness described in the novel

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IT

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The two spheres of influence into which the world is split after WWI

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Communism (Russia)

Democratic (USA)

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Theory that “if we stop communism, it will spread until the whole world is communist”

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Domino

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Kerouac’s definition of “Beat”

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Beatific

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Writer who described the Beat movement as “at the bottom of the world, rejected by society…”

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Jack Kerouac

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Author: a Rose for Emily

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William Faulkner

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A Rose for Emily: whose funeral begins the story

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A Rose for Emily

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A Rose for Emily: did she leave her house?

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No

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A Rose for Emily: what does she buy at the drugstore

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Rat poison

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A Rose for Emily: with whose decaying body had she been sleeping

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Homer

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Flannery O’Connor’s short story about a traveling bible salesmen

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Good country people

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Flannery O’Connor’s short story about a family on vacation

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A Good Man is Hard to Find

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A good man is hard to find: to where is the family traveling

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Florida

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A good man is hard to find: who is the escaped convict

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The Misfit

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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

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The road

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Good Country People: doctor of philosophy with a fake leg

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Hope-helge

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Good Country People: what are actually in the bibles Mr. Pointer sells

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Who key

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What is the name of the movement that followed naturalism

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Modernism

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according to naturalists, life is a struggle for survival in which not the fittest but the most ________ prevail

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Strongest/ruthless

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29
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Author: to build a fire

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Jack London

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30
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To Build a Fire: what is the name of the traveller

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Man

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31
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Realism suggests that nature is

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Indifferent

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In Chickamauga, a small boy pretends to be a what?

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Soldier

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This story follows the survivors of a shipwreck

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The Open Boat

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In this story, a person imagines his escape as he dies brutally

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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

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35
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This satirical work features a congregation of praying for success in war

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War prayer

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36
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Work: “just you drown me, now, and then hear what I call you!”

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Open Boat

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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.”

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Chickamauga

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38
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Robinson’s work depicting a drinking clergymember

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Cheevy

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Robinson’s work depicting a seemingly perfect individual; ends with a twist

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Richard Cory

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40
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T.S. Elliot was an

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Existentialist

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Existentialist fears include: alienation, loneliness, and ……

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Death

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42
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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.”

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The love story of Alfred Prufrock

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Elliot’s work about people stuck in limbo

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Hollow man

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This most famous modernist quote comes from which writer? “This is the way the world ends/Not with a bang, but with a whimper.”

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T.S. Eliot

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45
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Who is Eliot’s chronic procrastinator

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J Alfred Prufrock

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46
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extreme modernism

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Nihilism

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The name of the movement that responded to the sense of social breakdown between two World Wars

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Modernism/existentialism

48
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The “war to end all wars”

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WWI

49
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This action, enacted by a constitutional amendment, contributed to a rise in organized crime

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Alcohol prohibition (18th amendment)

50
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Amendment that granted women’s suffrage

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19th

51
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The “New Woman”

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Flappers

52
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Theorist who said that people are controlled by unconscious forces within the self

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Freud

53
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Theorist who said that people are controlled by economic forces outside the self

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Marx

54
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Modernism: this movement “depicted a sense of social _______”

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Breakdown

55
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Do modernism works usually have explanation or interpretations?

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No

56
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The mass movement that freed slaves to northern cities

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The great migration

57
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Laws that unconstitutionally restricted the rights of freed slaves

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Jim Crow

58
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WHAT types of jobs boomed after WWI

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Factory

59
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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?

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Jazz

Harlem Renaissance

60
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In which city was the Harlem renaissance concentrated

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NYC

61
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Author: The Great Gatsby

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Fitzgerald

62
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Great Gatsby: who is the narrator

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Nick Carraway

63
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Great Gatsby: what is the narrators profession

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A bond broke

64
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Great Gatsby:’The novels protagonist

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Nick C

65
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Great Gatsby: the “new money” side of Long Island

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West egg

66
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Gatsby’s real name

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James Gatz (changed if to Jay Gatz)

67
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How did Gatsby make his millions

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Bootlegging

68
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Great Gatsby: Nick’s cousin; Tom’s wife

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Daisy

69
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Great Gatsby: this person has an affair with Myrtle Baker

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Tom

70
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Great Gatsby: myrtle bakers husband

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George

71
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Gatsby’s huge events

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Parties

72
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Did Gatsby really attend oxford ?

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Not really… Only went for a semester

73
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Great Gatsby: who was driving the car that hit Myrtle

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Daisy

74
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Great Gatsby: who tells George where to find the person that “killed Myrtle”?

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Tom

75
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This person arranges gatsby’s funeral, which only few attend

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Nick

76
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Beloved: this person says, “you your best thing, Sethe”

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Paul D

77
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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.”

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Dammed Human Race

78
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Identify the work: “Ye have prayed it; if ye still desire it, speak! The messenger of the Most High waits!”

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War prayer

79
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Author: dammed human race

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Twain

80
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Author: Chickamauga

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Bierce

81
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Author: the open boat

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Crane

82
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T or F: realism says that being nice won’t get you anywhere in life

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True

83
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“Survival of the fittest”

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Social Darwinism

84
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Realism: from which person did this movement take many of its cues

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Charles Darwin

85
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Realism: Biological and _________ forces determined the character of society and the fate of the individual

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Economic

86
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Whitman first work; this collection contains Song of Myself

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Leaves of Grass

87
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Fill in the Whitman quote: “I _______ myself and ______ myself.”

A

Sing

Celebrate

88
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“I sound my barbaric _________ “

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Yamp

89
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Walt whitman emphasizes what kind of experience

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First-hand

90
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“I am the poet of the _____ and I am the poet of the ______ “

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Body; soul

91
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Around when did the pilgrims land at Plymouth

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1920

92
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“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?

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1776; Declaration of Independence

93
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After Romanticism/Transcendentalism peAked, it faded rather quickly after Walt Whitman. What event facilitated this rapid change ? And when did it occur?

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The civil war; 1861

94
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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.”

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Poe: Annabel Lee

95
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Author: “art is long, and time is fleeting, and our hearts, though stout and brave, still, like the muffled drums are beating….”

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Longfellow

96
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Author & work: “TRUE—NERVOUS—VERY, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?….Hearken!…”

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Poe: fall of the house of usher

97
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Nature is portrayed in realism as what

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Indifferent

98
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Author & work: “There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil! For to thee is this world given.”

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Hawthorne: Goodman brown

99
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Author & work: “the virtue in most request is conformity..”

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Emerson; self reliance

100
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Author & work: “Madman! I tell you that she now stands without that door!”

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Poe; usher

101
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Who said “simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!… I say, let your affairs be two or three and not a hundred of a thousand” ?

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Thoreau in Walden

102
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The Raven: The single word uttered by the raven

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Nevermore

103
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This character hears his sister in the tomb

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Roderick

104
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Rappaccini’s daughter

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Beatrice

105
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One of the two ancient civilizations which heavily influenced the romantics

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Greek

106
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Gangly teacher who meets the horseman

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Ichabod

107
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He sibling in Poe’s story who is artistically sensitive

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Rodrick

108
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Transcendentalist at temp at a pastoral, utopian, community

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Brook Farm

109
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Literature before WWI depicted a ________ society chronicling a universal human experience

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Stable

110
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Literature between the world wars conveyed a vision of ________ ________, and tried to develop an art that would address these concerns

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Social decay

111
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Modernist writers were often sparing of words and often use _______ narrators (children, adults with troubled mentality)

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Naivë

112
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Four key elements of realism

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  1. Analytical observation
  2. Commonplace/ordinary
  3. Writer as critic
  4. Darwinism
113
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Realism: analytical observation

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~ writer notes exactly what happens without interruption
~ doesn’t comment! just presents
~ people often lack names

114
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Realism: commonplace/ordinary

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~ often deals with material seen as immoral

~ a serious treatment of everyday life

115
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Realism element: Writer as a critic

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~ writing not merely to entertain! but to examine society & their causes

116
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Realism element: Darwinism

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~ “Man in the jungle”
~ “Survival of the fittest”
~ human beings caught in a savage struggle
~ victims of forces beyond their control

117
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Alan Ginsberg’s poem about a dead sunflower

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Sunflower santra

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