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American Literature
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What Era? William Bradford | Colonial Period |
| What Era? Anne Bradstreet | Colonial Period (Puritan) |
| What Era? Mary Rowlandson | Colonial Period |
| What Era? Edward Taylor | Colonial Period |
| What Era? Jonathan Edwards | Colonial Period |
| What Era? Benjamin Franklin | Neoclassic Era |
| What Era? Hector St. John Crevecoeur | Neoclassic Era |
| What Era? Philip Freneau | Neoclassic Era |
| What Era? Timothy Dwight | Neoclassic Era |
| What Era? Noah Webster | Neoclassic Era |
| What Era? The Knickerbockers | Romantic Period |
| What Era? The Fireside Poets | Romantic Period |
| What Era? The Transcendentalists | Romantic Period |
| What Era? Emerson | Romantic Period |
| What Era? Thoreau | Romantic Period |
| What Era? Whitman | Romantic Period |
| What Era? Hawthorne | Romantic Period |
| What Era? Melville | Romantic Period |
| What Era? Poe | Romantic Period |
| What Era? Washington Irving | Romantic Period |
| What Era? William Cullen Bryant | Romantic Period |
| What Era? James Fenimore Cooper | Romantic Period |
| 3 Transcendental optimists | Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman |
| 3 Transcendental pessimists | Hawthorne, Poe, Melville |
| What Era? William Dean Howells | Realistic Era |
| What Era? Mark Twain | Realistic Era |
| What Era? Sarah Orne Jewett | Realistic Era |
| What Era? Mary E. Wilkins Freeman | Realistic Era |
| What Era? Bret Harte | Realistic Era |
| What Era? O. Henry | Realistic Era |
| What Era? Hamlin Garland | Naturalistic Period |
| What Era? Ambrose Bierce | Naturalistic Period |
| What Era? Stephen Crane | Naturalistic Period |
| What Era? Jack London | Naturalistic Period |
| What Era? Paul Laurence Dunbar | Modern Period |
| What Era? Edwin Arlington Robinson | Modern Period |
| What Era? Robert Frost | Modern Period |
| What Era? Amy Lowell | Imagistic Period |
| What Era? Carl Sandburg | Imagistic Period |
| What Era? T. S. Eliot | Modern Period |
| What Era? Marianne Moore | Modern Period |
| What Era? William Carlos Williams | Modern Period |
| What Era? F. Scott Fitzgerald | Modern Period |
| What Era? Willa Cather | Modern Period |
| What Era? Ernest Hemmingway | Modern Period |
| What Era? E. E. Cummings | Contemporary Period |
| What Era? James Thurber | Contemporary Period |
| What Era? Pearl S. Buck | Contemporary Period |
| What prominent Era? Deism | Neoclassic Era |
| What prominent Era? Relativism | Modern Period |
| What prominent Era? Determinism | Naturalistic Period |
| What prominent Era? Rationalism | Neoclassic Era |
| What prominent Era? Fatalism | Romantic Period |
| What prominent Era? Evolution | Modern Period |
| What prominent Era? Naturalism | Modern Period |
| What prominent Era? Freudianism | Modern Period |
| What prominent Era? Marxism | Modern Period |
| What prominent Era? Existentialism | Contemporary Period |
| What work: "So was I once myself a swinger of birches, and so I dream of going back to be." | "Birches" by Robert Frost |
| What literary device: "I call out for you against the JUTTED stars and shout into the RIDGES of the WIND." | Imagism |
| What literary device:"Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action." | metaphor |
| What literary device: "The fog comes on little cat feet." | metaphor |
| What work: "And in short, I am afraid." | "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot |
| What literary device: "No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be." | literary allusion |
| What literary device: "I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me." | literary allusion |
| What literary device: "They were modern babies who ate and slept at regular hours, so their dispositions were good, and their faces healthy and pink- such a peaceful party would not have been possible thirty years ago." | satire |
| What literary technique: "Spring summer autumn winter... sun moon stars rain..." | refrain- time passes in lists |
| What theme: "Say, doctor, I've got something I want to say to you. If I hadn't met a Jap like you, well, I wouldn't be alive today. I know that." | overcoming prejudice |
| What work: "I guess if all the Japs were like you there wouldn't have been a war." | "The Enemy" by Pearl S. Buck |
| In "The Enemy," Sadao dealt with what type of conflict? | inner conflict |
| an antiphilosophy that maintains that there are no absolutes and thus no purpose in the world | existentialism |
| 2 themes of "The Enemy" by Peal S. Buck | value of human life, overcoming prejudice |
| philosophy shown most in "The Enemy" by Pearl S. Buck | existentialism |
| the reversal of syntactic relation | hypallage |
| What literary technique: "Children guessed but only a few and down they forgot as up they grew." | hypallage |
| What work uses the technique of hypallage and several refrains as time passes in lists? | "Anyone Live in a Pretty How Town" by E. E. Cummings |
| Who elevated the individual vs. society? | E. E. Cummings |
| believes that there is a right and wrong but can switch between the two | relativism |
| believes that there is NO right or wrong | existentialism |
| major theme in all works of Willa Cather | The Mechanization of Modern Life |
| In "The Baby Party," John Andros was what type of a character? Edith Andros? | dynamic- static |
| What theme: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" | the narrator's inability to live a meaningful existence in the modern world |
| What theme: "Spoon River Anthology" | Simple lives can be great lives |
| What theme: "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost | Duty and Responsibility |
| What theme: "Birches" by Robert Frost | Real World vs. World of Imagination |
| What theme: "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost | Making Choices |
| movement of poetry that they find/use an object and describe it and let you figure it out | imagism |
| the belief in the id, ego, and superego | freudianism |
| What Era? Longfellow | Romantic Period |
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