Unit 9 Flashcards
Appointed by Lincoln to American consulate in Venice, Italy
Howells
Literature that portrays events in a realistic, true-to-life manner.
Realism
Wrote “The Ride of Silas Lapham”
Howells
He brought respectability to realism
Howells
What is the setting of “Editha”?
The Spanish American war, a country in Iowa Balcom’s Works, New York
What persuasive arguments does Editha use to convince George to enlist?
He should fight to liberate the people involved
Editha and he must agree on everything
He should fight for his country
Who did Editha say “meant it to be war?
God
Why did Editha’s mother say “well, I guess you’ve done a wicked thing”?
Because she finds out from Editha that she wants George to go to war and she realizes that Editha will do anything to persuade George to go
“I never thought I should like to kill a man, but now, I shouldn’t care, and the smokeless powder lets you see the man drop that you kill”
George
“She lifted herself by her powerful arms so high that her helpless body seemed to hang limp its full length”
Mrs. Gearson
“The mystery that has bewildered her was solved by the word, and from that movement she rose from groveling and began to live again in the ideal”
Editha
Notes for his psychological realism
James
Reacted against didacticism in fiction
James
Developed the “international theme” through his characters
James
Became the most famous 19th century American expatriate
James
Wrote “The American”
James
What is the setting of “The American”?
Begins in the city of Paris
Another location is: a chateau in Fleuieres
“The gentleman on the divan was a powerful specimen of an American”
Christopher Newman
What words describe Christopher Newman?
Determined
Intelligent
Resourceful
What was Christopher Newman’s sole aim in life?
To make money
What can’t Newman marry the one he loves?
He family doesn’t approve
“She was the sweetest young creature in France, and knew as little of what was going on around her as the lamb does of the butcher.”
Claire
“I wouldn’t get well, for a kingdom.”
Valentin de Bellegarde
“I didn’t know what was written on the paper, or how bad it might be, and there was no one I could trust enough to ask.”
Mrs. Bread
Why does Mrs. Bread keep her secret?
She is afraid, she doesn’t know who to tell and she doesn’t want to hurt Claire
What is the significance of the phrase “Newman found himself in a part of Paris which he little knew - a region of convents and prisons.”
The way the author uses these words together gives the same meaning to both words. To Newman the convent is like a prison because Clair is thee and can’t marry him. Also, it has tall walls around it.
When Mrs. Tristram reveals the Bellegard’s possible motivation behind their defiance why does Newman look back into the fire?
He looks back into the fire and has second thoughts about his decision to not expose the Bellegardes.
Henry James does not use what to conclude “The American”?
Romantic ending
Made a colloquial speech of the frontier into an artistic form
Clemens
Both a humorist and satirist
Clemens
Made famous by a tall tale
Clemens
What does the author use in “The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn” to tie the episodes together?
Common setting
What is the setting o “Life on the Mississippi”?
Hannibal, Missouri
What are the different jobs the narrator of “Life on the Mississippi” wants to be?
Clown
Steamboatman
Pirate
“He would crowd around a point, hugging the shore with affection”
Mr. Bixby
Once the narrator has learned the river he says, “All grave, the beauty, the poetry had gone out of the majestic river.”
Mr. Bixby
What is the setting of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”?
A Kentucky household and the Phelp’s farm
Huck’s writing style is in what?
The way he would speak, using his own vocabulary and simple words that flow naturally
Clemens criticizes human weakness by using what?
Satire
Buck escapes from Pap by making everyone think he had been killed by:
Killing a pig and drips its blood
Dragging a sack of rocks to the river
Dropping a trail of meal to the lake
Samuel Clemens uses Huck’s native to what?
Satirize
Why is Huck upset about helping Jim escape?
He thinks it’s wrong
“I felt good and all washed clean of sim for the first time I had ever felt so in my life, and I knower I could pray now.”
Huck Finn
“When he go done, he couldn’t no way make up his mind which one for Jim to scrap onto the wall, they was all so good; at least he allowed he would let him scrabble them all.”
Tom Sawyer
“No, sah, gimme g’yarters-snakes, ‘f I’s got to have ‘m, but doan’ gimme no rats, I ain’t got no use f’r um, skasely.”
Jim
When Ton Sawyer visits his aunt at the Phelp’s farm, he decides that Jim must do the following before he escapes:
Dig inscriptions into a rock
Play a Jews harp for the rats
Raise a flower and water with his tears
