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American Literature
Test 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are 7 characteristics of the Realistic Era? | ordinary man, dialect and local color, accurate depiction of life, clear and direct language, concerned with the immediate, concerned with the material, wanted truthful treatment of the subject matter |
| What are 4 literary characteristics of the Naturalistic Era? | pessimism, photographic accuracy, scientific approach, "survival of the fittest" |
| a novel that was a picaresque novel and bildungsroman | Huckleberry Finn |
| writing style with pictures and no distinct plot movement | picaresque |
| a coming of age story; coming to a state of greater maturity | bildungsroman |
| Huckleberry Finn was written in _______ person. | 1st |
| Who had a distorted view of life, reality, and nature? | Naturalists |
| Naturalism was a form of realism, but with what at its base? | Evolution |
| literary characteristic that says man's fate is determined by outside forces; says people don't make their own choices; no free will, man is controlled by nature | determinism |
| literary characteristic that says man's fate is controlled by the gods or the Fates | fatalism |
| literary characteristic that believes in nature's indifference | cosmic chill |
| What poem: "The critic must perceive it . . . not to invent or . . . them . . ." | "Criticism and Fiction" by William Dean Howells |
| What poem used two different dialects, framed story, and tall tale? | "Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" by Mark Twain |
| What literary device: "Her voice filled the whole room; she sang with wonderful fire and expression." | Fire Imagery |
| What poem: "On went her old brown jacket . . . old brown hat." | "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry |
| What theme believes that it is impossible to escape one's environment? | Trap of social circumstances |
| What theme is an outward appearance? | Man is a pitiful creature |
| What theme is driven by irrational instincts (inward appearance) | Man as animal |
| What theme is the indifference/hostility of the world toward man? | Cosmic chill |
| What theme: "A black-hearted houn! .... You'll never rob another man..." | Man as animal |
| What theme: "Haskins sat down blindly on a bundle of oats near by, and with staring eyes and dropping head went over the situation. He was under the lion's paw. He felt horrible numbness in his heart and limbs, He was hid in a mist, and there was no..." | Trap of social circumstances |
| What theme: "When the tall form of a man loomed up before him with a premonitory cough." | Man as pitiful creature |
| What theme: "Eat! They wiped us out. They chawed everything that was green. They jest set around waiting f'r us to die t' eat us too..." | Cosmic chill |
| What theme: "The harvest came, bounteous, glorious, but the winds came and blew it into tangles, and the rain matted it here and there close to the ground, increasing the work of gathering it threefold." | Cosmic chill |
| What literary characteristic: "As these thoughts, which have here to be set down in words, were lashed into the doomed man's brain rather than evolved from it, the captain nodded to the sergeant. The sergeant stepped aside." | Foreshadowing |
| What literary characteristic: "His neck ached horribly; his brain was on fire; which had been fluttering faintly gave a great leap, trying to force itself out at his mouth." | Foreshadowing |
| What literary characteristic: "And that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply the fact that there are no bricks and no temples." | Determinism |
| What literary characteristic: "We might try my overcoat on the end of an oar, and give you two boys a chance to rest... The wind slowly died away." | Cosmic chill |
| What literary characteristic: "If I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and trees?" | Fatalism |
| What poem: "The dog was disappointed and yearned back toward the fire. This man did not know cold. But it knew that it was not good to walk abroad in such fearful cold." | "To Build A Fire" by Jack London |
| What literary characteristic does Bret Harte use in "The Boom in the Calaveras Clarion"? | Dialect |
| What literary DEVICE does O. Henry use in "The Gift of the Magi"? | Twist/Surprise ending |
| What literary TECHNIQUE does O. Henry use in "The Gift of the Magi"? | intrusive 3rd person |
| What literary DEVICE does Hamlin Garland use? | Determinism |
| What literary TECHNIQUE does Hamlin Garland use? | Impressionism |
| What 3 literary characteristics does Ambrose Bierce use in "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"? | Surprise ending, cosmic chill, foreshadowing |
| What 3 literary characteristics does Stephen Crane use in "The Open Boat"? | Cosmic chill, determinism, fatalism |
| T/F: The characters in "The Open Boat" believed in fatalism, but the author Stephen Crane believed in determinism. | T |
| What 2 themes does Jack London use in "To Build A Fire"? | Survival of the fittest, man is a pitiful creature |
| What poem: "There is no despair so deep as the despair of a homeless man or woman." | "Under the Lion's Paw" by Hamlin Garland |
| What literary theme: "There is no despair so deep as the despair of a homeless man or woman." | Trap of social circumstances |
| What is the theme of "The Boom in the Calavares Clarion" by Bret Harte? | The Power of the Published Word |
| What is the theme of "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry? | Finding Joy in Difficult Situations |
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