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Test 3 Flashcards

1
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what era was cultural provincialism?

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Romantic Era

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“provincial”

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backward, “hillbilly”, unsophisticated

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what is cultural provincialism?

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Europeans look down on Americans because they have no culture

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when was the Golden Age of American Literature?

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Romantic Era

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what is literary romanticism?

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concerned with creating a national literature

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what are the cornerstones of literary romanticism?

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  • individualism
  • imagination
  • nature
  • distance in time or place
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what era was transcendentalism?

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Romantic Era

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who influenced transcendentalism?

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Immanuel Kant

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who wrote “A Psalm of Life”?

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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  • do something positive with your life and be a good example to those who are following you
  • “act”
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“A Psalm of Life”

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11
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who began “mad scientist” stories?

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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what was Nathaniel Hawthorne’s style characterized by?

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  • allegory
  • ambiguity
  • ambivalence
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13
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who wrote “Young Goodman Brown”?

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  • “on his present evil purpose”
  • forests are often representative as hidden sin
  • faith held me back
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“Young Goodman Brown”

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who was the first to influence successors in poetry, fiction, and criticism?

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Edgar Allan Poe

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16
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who created the detective story?

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Edgar Allan Poe

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17
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who wrote “Tell Tale Heart”?

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Edgar Allan Poe

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18
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who wrote “The Raven”?

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Edgar Allan Poe

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19
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who wrote “Annabel Lee”?

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Edgar Allan Poe

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  • two signs of death in the beginning, asleep
  • “nevermore” says the ___
  • Poe asks questions based on death of Lenore, his wife
  • never going to forget her, will I see her in the next life? no
A

“The Raven”

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  • based on grief of wife-child’s death
  • angels were jealous of this love, so they killed her, or her high-born kinsman, mean they were 2 worlds
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“Annabel Lee”

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who wrote “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”?

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Frederick Douglass

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  • kind hearted white woman, soon to become hard hearted
  • husband against woman teaching young slave to read and write
  • education and slavery are incompatible with each other
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“Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”

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who was a philosophical leader of the Transcendentalists?

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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25
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what did Ralph Waldo Emerson?

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  • divinity of man
  • perfectibility of society
  • irrelevance of the Bible
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26
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  • nature is where you go to reach your diving potential
  • there is a difference between a child’s view and an adult’s view of nature
  • transparent eyeball
A

“Nature”

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27
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who wrote “Nature”?

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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28
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who wanted his life to be free from distractions and responsibilities?

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Henry David Thoreau

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29
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what was the purpose of “Walden”?

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to force the reader to reevaluate the way he has been thinking and living

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30
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who wrote “Walden”?

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Henry David Thoreau

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31
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who said “simplify simplify”?

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Henry David Thoreau

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32
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who published “Leaves of Grass”?

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Walt Whitman

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33
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who was probably the single most powerful influence on modern poetry?

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Walt Whitman

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34
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who promoted the use of free verse?

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Walt Whitman

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who wrote “O Captain! My Captain!”?

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Walt Whitman

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  • about the death of Lincoln
  • form poem
  • public expression of death
  • uses analogy of a ship
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“O Captain! My Captain!”

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who wrote “The Wound Dresser”?

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Walt Whitman

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38
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expresses the anguish that the author feels when he sees the soldiers, in which he though highly of, with deathly wounds

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“The Wound Dresser”

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39
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what Whitman a soldier in the war?

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no

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40
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who is known as “The Myth” and “The Ghost of Amherst”?

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Emily Dickinson

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41
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whose poems encouraged 20th century poets to experiment with language and form?

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Emily Dickinson

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42
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who wrote “Hope”?

A

Emily Dickinson

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43
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  • cleaned up version
  • describes hope like a bird
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“Hope”

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44
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what authors were in the Romantic Era?

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  • Longfellow
  • Hawthorne
  • Poe
  • Douglass
  • Emerson
  • Thoreau
  • Whitman
  • Dickinson
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45
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who said “this [the Bible] is the secret of England’s greatness”?

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Queen Victoria

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what were the basic Victorian beliefs?

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  • great faith in the progress of mankind
  • a compassion for others almost unparalleled in history
  • aspired to lead moral lives in line with their understanding of Scripture
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47
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what era was the rise of the social gospel?

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Victorian Age

48
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what were the contributions of the evangelicals in the Victorian Age?

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  • foreign missions (Taylor, Studd, Livingstone)
  • evangelical campaigns (Moody)
  • ministries in the cities (Salvation Army, YMCA, hospital)
  • hymns
  • abolition of slavery
  • school
49
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what era stressed that language had correctness and politeness?

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Victorian Age

50
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what were some issues of Victorian Age literature?

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  • nature and certainty of progress
  • validity of the Christian faith
  • conflict between religion and society
51
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what was the objective of Victorian Age literature?

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truthfulness in reflecting the practical problems of daily life

52
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what were characteristics of Victorian Age literature?

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  • reader wanted be guided and edified by the writer
  • variety in both style and subject matter
53
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what was the variety in Victorian Age literature?

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  • new or unusual metrical patterns
  • narrative poetry
  • novel dominant form of literature
54
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whose great theme was the past?

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson

55
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who wrote “The Charge of the Light Brigade”?

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson

56
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  • mounted soldiers on horses going against artillery
  • written in the rhythm that resembles horses running
A

“The Charge of the Light Brigade”

57
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who wrote “Crossing the Bar”?

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson

58
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  • imagines what will play out at the end of his life
  • “bar” = sandbar
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“Crossing the Bar”

59
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who wrote “Ulysses”?

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson

60
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  • comes from the Odessy
  • getting old -> one last great adventure
  • dramatic monologue
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“Ulysses”

61
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who was a rive to Tennyson for poet laureate?

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Elizabeth Barret Browning

62
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who wrote “Sonnet 43”?

A

Elizabeth Barret Browning

63
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  • “Sonnets of the Portuguese”
  • written to her husband
A

“Sonnet 43”

64
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who sought to reinforce rather than replace religious faith?

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Robert Browning

65
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who developed dramatic monologue?

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Robert Browning

66
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who wrote “My Last Dutchess”?

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Robert Browning

67
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  • dramatic monologue
  • character is a duke
  • the duke wanted the duchess to smile for him
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“My Last Dutchess”

68
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who though that the remedy for society’s ills was a religion of culture?

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Matthew Arnold

69
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who wrote “Dover Beach”?

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Matthew Arnold

70
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  • although written while on honeymoon with his bride, it is not a particularly positive poem
  • pessimistic
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“Dover Beach”

71
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whose dominant theme of her poetry is the painful submission to God’s will

A

Christina Rossetti

72
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who wrote “Remember”

A

Christina Rossetti

73
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typical Victorian poem about death

A

“Remember”

74
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who wrote “A Birthday”?

A

Christina Rossetti

75
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real birthday is when she finally meets her love

A

“A Birthday”

76
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who wrote “Hap”?

A

Thomas Hardy

77
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  • “hap” = change/gambling
  • “life was a gamble”
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“Hap”

78
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whose poems have powerfully influenced modern poetic styles; he sought unusual effects?

A

Gerard Manley Hopkins

79
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“inscape”

A

characteristics that make on thing different from another; it is the essence of poetry

80
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“instress”

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the force of being which holds the inscape together or implies which carries it whole to the mind of the reader

81
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who said “the instress of inscape leads one to Christ”?

A

Gerard Manley Hopkins

82
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who developed sprung rhythm?

A

Gerard Manley Hopkins

83
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who wrote “God’s Grandeur”?

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

84
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  • expressing the beauty there is in nature and accredits it to God, the Creator
  • “nature is never spent” (too big to destroy)
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“God’s Grandeur”

85
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who may have been the one-legged model for Long John Silver?

A

William Ernest Henley

86
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who is known primarily for his poem “Invictus”?

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William Ernest Henley

87
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man says “I am in charge of me”

A

“Invictus”

88
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what authors were in the Victorian Age?

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  • Tennyson
  • E. Browning
  • R. Bronwing
  • Arnold
  • Rossetti
  • Hardy
  • Hopkins
  • Henley
89
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what era was the age of the “robber barons”?

A

Realistic Era

90
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who denounced the robber barons?

A

Muckrackers

91
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what era was “The Jungle” made and who wrote it?

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Realistic Era; Upton Sinclair

92
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what era was called “The Gilded Age” by Twain?

A

Realistic Era

93
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what era was the rise of Liberalism?

A

Realistic Era

94
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what were some characteristics of the rise of Liberalism?

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  • God is the father of all men
  • all men are brothers
  • all religions are true
95
Q

what era had the social gospel and “In His Steps” by Charles Sheldon?

A

Realistic Era

96
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what were the artistic principles of American Realism?

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  • wrote what they saw
  • used commonplace characters in commonplace settings
  • key word is “ordinary”
97
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what were Regionalists in the Realistic Era?

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  • emphasized landscape, customs, peoples, dialect, etc. of a specific area
  • popularized American short story
98
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whose first well-known story is “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Country”?

A

Samuel Langhorne Celmens (Twain)

99
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who wrote “Huckleberry Finn”?

A

Samuel Langhorne Celemens (Twain)

100
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  • The Great American Novel
  • goal was to reach to the point where the rivers meet
  • Huck sacrifices his soul by not turning in Jim
  • Huck was gullible, adaptable, and literal minded
A

“Huckleberry Finn”

101
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who deals with a New England hit by economic woes and the depopulation of men caused by the Civil War and by emigration of those looking for better financial stability?

A

Mary Wilkins Freeman

102
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who wrote “Revolt of Mother”?

A

Mary Wilkins Freeman

103
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  • not a physical revolt but a mental one
  • she didn’t like that they were building a new barn and not a new house
A

“Revolt of Mother”

104
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whose common theme is a women’s revolt against conformity, often against gender conformity or social norms?

A

Kate Chopin

105
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who wrote “A Pair of Silk Stockings”?

A

Kate Chopin

106
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  • spends her money on herself
  • goes to a theater then gets on a cable car
  • she didn’t want to get married and wanted to do what she wanted to do
  • marriage is like a “sentence”
A

“A Pair of Silk Stockings”

107
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what era was Naturalism?

A

Realistic Era

108
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definition of Naturalism?

A

the application of Darwinism to literature

109
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what taught that life is portrayed a being controlled by forces we cannot change?

A

Naturalism

110
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what were three major themes of Naturalism?

A
  • cosmic chill
  • man as an animal
  • trap of social circumstances (determinism)
111
Q

who is known as “Bitter Bierce” and the first writer of black humor?

A

Ambrose Bierce

112
Q

who wrote “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”?

A

Ambrose Bierce

113
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  • physiological/naturalistic story
  • he was not a soldier
  • primarily being hung for being a spy
A

“Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”

114
Q

who was an anti-naturalist?

A

O Henry

115
Q

who wrote “The Cop and the Anthem”

A

O Henry

116
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  • tries to get arrested but nothing works
  • finally gets arrested in front of a chapel
A

“The Cop and the Anthem”

117
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what authors were in the Realistic Era?

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  • Clemens (Twain)
  • Freeman
  • Chopin
  • Bierce
  • Henry

EN 210 - Introduction to Literature (3 decks)

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