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American Lit
Unit IV Test Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What three groups were the most affected in the developments after the Civil War? | Women, Blacks, and Native Americans |
| What are Americanisms? | Words or phrases that originated in America and unique to that region |
| "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" | Mark Twain |
| "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" | Bret Harte |
| "To Build a Fire" | Jack London |
| "The Story of an Hour" | Kate Chopin |
| "A Wagner Matinee" | Willa Cather |
| "Douglass" | Paul Laurence Dunbar |
| "We Wear the Mask" | Paul Laurence Dunbar |
| "Lucinda Matlock" | Edgar Lee Masters |
| "Fiddler Jones" | Edgar Lee Masters |
| "Richard Cory" | Edwin Arlington Robinson |
| "Miniver Cheevy" | Edwin Arlington Robinson |
| Tall Tale | An exaggerated, unreliable story |
| Naturalism | a literary movement or tendency from the 1880s to 1940s that used detailed realism to suggest that social conditions, heredity, and environment had inescapable force in shaping human character |
| Realism | the trend, beginning with mid nineteenth-century French literature and extending to late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century authors, toward depictions of contemporary life and society as it was, or is |
| Regionalism | fiction and poetry that focuses on the characters, dialect, customs, topography, and other features particular to a specific region |
| colloquial language | characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing; informal |
| flat characters | a literary character whose personality can be defined by one or two traits and does not change in the course of the story |
| resolution | final outcome |
| tone | the attitudes toward the subject and toward the audience implied in a literary work |
| early feminist writer | Kate Chopin |
| Winner of three Pulitzer Prizes | Edwin Arlington Robinson |
| Wrote Spoon River Anthology | Edgar Lee Masters |
| As a child, moved with her parents to the land rush of Nebraska | Willa Cather |
| First African-American writer to gain national recognition | Paul Laurence Dunbar |
| wrote of the Wisconsin/Illinois experience | Edwin Arlington Robinson |
| tall tale | a story with unbelievable elements, related as if it were true and factual |
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