Authors Flashcards

(39 cards)

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John Steinbeck

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Modernism

– “The Turtle” from G​rapes of Wrath

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Ernest Hemingway

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Modernism

—“In Another Country”

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Carl Sandburg

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Modernism

– “Chicago”; “Grass”

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William Faulkner

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Modernism

– “Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech”

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Robert Frost

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Modernism
– “Mending Wall”; “Acquainted With the Night”; “Out, Out …”;
“Fire and Ice”; “Birches”; “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening”

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e. e. cummings

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Modernism

– “ old age sticks’; “anyone lived in a pretty how town”; “i thank you, God”

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W. H. Auden

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Modernism

– “The Unknown Citizen

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Langston Hughes

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Harlem Renaissance

– “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”; “Dream Variations”; “I,Too”; “Mother to Son”

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Claude McKay

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Harlem Renaissance

– “The Tropics in New York”

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Arna Bontemps

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Harlem Renaissance

– “A Black Man Talks of Reaping”

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Zora Neale Hurston

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Harlem Renaissance

– from D​ust Tracks on the Road

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Ezra Pound

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Imagists

– “A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste”; “In a Station of the Metro”

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Colleen McKay

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Postmodernism

For my children

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Yosef komunyakaa

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Postmodernism

Camouflaging the chimera

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Tim o’Brian

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Postmodernism

Ambush from the things they carried

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John Hersey

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Postmodernism

From heroshima

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Martin Espada

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Post modernism

Who burns for the perfection of paper

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Sylvia Plath

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Postmodernism

Mirror

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William Carlos Williams

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Imagist

– “The Red Wheelbarrow”; “The Great Figure”; “This is Just to Say”

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H. D.

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Imagist

–“​P​ear Tree”

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Harper Lee

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Postmodernism

– T​o Kill a Mockingbird

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Arthur Miller

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Postmodernism

– T​he Crucible

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William Stafford­­

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Postmodernism

“Traveling Through the Dark”

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John Updike

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Modernism

- “Seven Stanzas at Easter”

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Allen Ginsberg
­­ Beats | -"Howl," "In a Supermarket in California"
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti­­
Beats | "To the Oracle at Delphi"
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T. S. Eliot
Modernism | – “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”; “The Wasteland”; “The Four Quartets”
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Kate Chopin
Realism | The story of an hour
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Frederick Douglass
Realism | My bondage my freedom
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
Realism | Douglas; we wear the mask
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Chief Joseph
Realism | I will fight no more forever
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Abraham Lincoln
Realism | Gettysburg address, second inaugural address
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Robert E lee
Realism | Letter to his son
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Stonewall Jackson
Realism | an account of the battle of Bull Run
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Mary chestnut
Realism | Civil War diary
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Sojourner truth
Realism | An account of an experience with discrimination; aint I a woman
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Edwin Arlington Robinson
Realism | Richard Cory; Luke havergal
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Edgar Lee masters
Realism | Richard bone; Lucinda Matlock
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Ambrose Bierce
Realism | An occurrence at owl creek bridge