Flashcards for English - Short Story Unit

Question 1

American regionalism/local color signified a break from what?

Answer 1

European tradition/influence, the Old World

Question 2

At the end of the movie version of An Occurrence… what discrepancy is used?

Answer 2

The discrepancy between pscyhological time and real time

Question 3

How did the count die?

Answer 3

He was stabbed on his way to the baron’s

Question 4

Identify the literary movement: glorified nature, common man, strange/unfamiliar, fascination with traditions/beliefs/legend of the past, fantastic and supernatural

Answer 4

Romanticism

Question 5

In Love of Life, what happened to Bill?

Answer 5

He probably died, since the man finds human bones and Bill’s sack of gold

Question 6

In Love of Life, what was in the little sacks they carried?

Answer 6

Gold!

Question 7

Irving and Cooper are two briefly-mentioned writers of what movement?

Answer 7

Romanticism

Question 8

Is Butler right to offer Haskins a higher price on the land after Haskins has improved it?

Answer 8

Legally, yes. Ethically, no.

Question 10

Realism was a reaction to what?

Answer 10

Shallow, optimisitc Romanticism

Question 11

T/F: American writers produced the most works of quality and originality during the Romantic period.

Answer 11

TRUE

Question 12

T/F: Hawthorne was one of the few Romantic writers that rarely used symbols.

Answer 12

False: he used a TON of symbols, as did many other Romantic writers.

Question 13

T/F: Realism occurred primarily during the 1870s-early 1900s.

Answer 13

TRUE

Question 14

T/F: Regionalism or local color was primary during the late 18th century.

Answer 14

False: late ninteenth (aka late 1800s)

Question 15

T/F: Romanticism was primarily 1850-1855.

Answer 15

TRUE

Question 16

What are some features of the Romantic movement?

Answer 16

focus on the supernatural, the common man, glorified nature, etc.

Question 17

What companion does the man in Love of Life have towards the end of his journey? What happens?

Answer 17

A sick wolf: he bites the wolf’s neck and drinks a teeny bit of its blood

Question 18

What do the scientific men think the man in Love of Life looks like?

Answer 18

a mosntrous worm

Question 19

What does London suggest in Love of Life?

Answer 19

That man in the state of nature is essentially a beast

Question 20

What does the man in Love of Life do on the boat?

Answer 20

Hoards his food

Question 21

What genre is: Bret Harte?

Answer 21

regionalism

Question 22

What genre is: Edgar Allen Poe?

Answer 22

romanticism

Question 23

What genre is: Frank Norris?

Answer 23

realism

Question 24

What genre is: George Washington Cable?

Answer 24

regionalism

Question 25

What genre is: Hamlin Garland?

Answer 25

realism

Question 26

What genre is: Herman Melville?

Answer 26

romanticism

Question 27

What genre is: Jack London?

Answer 27

realism

Question 28

What genre is: Mark Twain?

Answer 28

regionalism

Question 29

What genre is: Nathaniel Hawthorne?

Answer 29

romanticism

Question 30

What genre is: Sarah Orne Jewett?

Answer 30

regionalism

Question 31

What genre is: Stephen Crane?

Answer 31

realism

Question 32

What happened to Jean-ah Poquelin's brother Jacques?

Answer 32

He becomes a leper and is hidden away in Jean-ah's house: people think he's a ghost

Question 33

What is the Bedford?

Answer 33

The ship that the man in Love of Life eventually ends up on

Question 34

What is the Commodore?

Answer 34

The ship that sunk, leaving the four men in The Open Boat to their… open boat.

Question 35

What literary movement combines Romanticism and Realism?

Answer 35

Regionalism/local color

Question 36

What literary movement highlighted hardship, debt, war, inequality, industrialization, etc.?

Answer 36

Realism

Question 37

What movement began to change the American way of thinking, and what literary movement did this lead to?

Answer 37

Industrialism --> Realism

Question 38

What one thing about the baron in the Specter Bridegroom affects his economy and life?

Answer 38

Pride

Question 39

What prevents Haskins from killing Butler?

Answer 39

The sight of his baby daughter in the distance

Question 40

What story includes a man who is abandoned by "Bill?"

Answer 40

Love of Life

Question 41

What was key to the mometous development of the frontier, and thus local color?

Answer 41

Railroads, choo-choo…

Question 42

What was one of the reasons local color arose?

Answer 42

American exploration and expansion past New England

Question 43

What was the motivation for Regionalist literaure?

Answer 43

National interest in the American scene: Americans wanted to read about what was going on elsewhere in the country, and to get an accurate description of life there

Question 44

Where does the baron's daughter see the specter after he leaves?

Answer 44

In her garden by her window

Question 45

Which character in The Open Boat is probably Crane himself?

Answer 45

The correspondent

Question 46

Which farmer helps Bill Haskins family?

Answer 46

Stephen Council

Question 47

Which is the only purely romantic story out of the five?

Answer 47

The Specter Bridegroom

Question 48

Which Regionalist writer depicted California life?

Answer 48

Bret Harte

Question 49

Which Regionalist writer depicted Creole culture?

Answer 49

G.W. Cable (Jean-Ah Poquelin)

Question 50

Which Regionalist writer depicted Maine culture?

Answer 50

Sarah Orne Jewett

Question 51

Which Regionalist writer depicted Mississippi life?

Answer 51

Twain

Question 52

Which Romantic writer experimented with allegory?

Answer 52

Melville

Question 53

Which Romantic writer was of Puritan stock?

Answer 53

Hawthorne

Question 54

Which story features an indigo planter who speaks in dialect?

Answer 54

Jean-ah Poquelin

Question 55

Who are the four men in The Open Boat?

Answer 55

the captain, the cook, the correspondent, and the oiler (Billie)

Question 56

Who are the three Romantic writers mentioned in the packet?

Answer 56

Poe, Hawthorne, Melville

Question 57

Who helps stand up for Jean-ah Poquelin?

Answer 57

Little White, a kind-hearted and fearless secretary in the regional governmenty type thing

Question 58

Who tries to eat a wolf?

Answer 58

The man in Love of Life

Question 59

Who was the count supposed to marry in the Specter Bridegroom?

Answer 59

the baron's daughter

Question 60

Who was the specter bridegroom?

Answer 60

the count's messenger

Question 61

Who were the four Regionalist writers mentioned in the packet?

Answer 61

Bret Harte, Sarah Orne Jewett, Mark Twain, G.W. Cable

Question 62

Who where the four primary Realist writers included in the packet?

Answer 62

Garland, Norris, Crane, London

Question 63

Who's the only one to die in The Open Boat?

Answer 63

Billie the oiler

Question 64

Why didn't the specter reveal who he was?

Answer 64

the baron basically wouldn't let him, and he was starting to fall for the baron's daughter anyway