Midterm Flashcards

(28 cards)

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Walt Whitman

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American Mythology

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Emily Dickinson

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religious poetry

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Henry James
Kate Chopin
Mark Twain
Ambrose Bierce
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
-reaction to Romanticism
-depict everyday life
-characters are ordinary, not heroic
-characters behave in expected ways
-tragic/unhappy ending
-plot is less important than character
-irony
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Realism

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Stephen Crane
Jack London
-"Angry young men"
-nature seen as ambivalent or hostile towards man
-rise of racial pseudoscience
-Determinism/lack of free will
-nihilistic/fatalistic
-science, biology, sociology, Darwin, Freud
-extreme form of realism
-man vs nature
-often employs irony
-failures of conventional morality in extreme situations
-survival of the fittest
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Naturalism

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Mark Twain
Kate Chopin
Zora Neale Hurston
-writing about what is around you
-dialect (how it would sound)
-"Local color" and customs
-folktales, religion
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Regionalism

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  • American Dream
  • pulling yourself up by your bootstraps
  • Walt Whitman
  • Booker T. Washington
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“self-made man”

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W.E.B. DuBois

  • sees himself as his own person and as others see him
  • he is black, but also American
  • educated and powerful, but also a member of the black community
  • the two parts of his identity are in conflict
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“double-consciousness”

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Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
-most of the people associated with HR were not actually from there
-most well known effect is the music (jazz)
-peaked between WWI-1929
-catalyst was W.E.B. DuBois

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Harlem Renaissance

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  • a story that helps a group or a people understand themselves
  • doesn’t mean that the person isn’t real or the story isn’t true
  • ie the American Dream
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myth

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  • local customs and folktales of a region
  • part of regionalism
  • dialect
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“local color”

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"The Wound Dresser"
"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"
"Song of Myself"
"Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"
"Democratic Vistas"
-letter from Ralph Waldo Emerson
-free verse
-Romanticism, transcendentalism
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Walt Whitman

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Letters to Thomas Wentworth Higginson
"Some keep the Sabbath going to church..."
"There's a certain slant of light..."
"I felt a Funeral, in my Brain..."
"Because I could not stop for Death..."
"I heard a Fly buzz - when I died..."
"My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun..."
"Tell all the Truth but tell it slant..."
-Calvinism
-abnormal punctuation and random capitalization
-ballad form
-Romanticism, transcendentalism
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Emily Dickinson

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"The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
"The War Prayer"
-Samuel Clemens
-Gilded Age
-regionalist
-realist
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Mark Twain

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” An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”
“Chickamauga”
-“Bitter Bierce”
-went to Mexico and no one heard or saw from him again
-macabre, horror fiction, war stories
-common plot device comes from OAOCB (delusion/dream)
-realist

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Ambrose Bierce

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“The Beast in the Jungle”

  • realism, psychological realism
  • limited 3rd person (in between omniscient narrator and unreliable narrator)
  • realist
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Henry James

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"The Open Boat"
"The Black Riders"
"War is Kind"
"A Man Said to the Universe"
-naturalism
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Stephen Crane

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“To Build a Fire”

-naturalism

18
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“Desiree’s Baby”
“The Story of an Hour”
-realist

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“The Yellow Wallpaper”
“Why I Wrote ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’”
-realist

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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“The Atlanta Exposition Address” (Up From Slavery)

  • born into slavery
  • “self-made man”
  • largely self-educated
  • focus on individuals
  • Tuskegee University
  • economic activity
  • stay in the South
  • learn a trade
  • slow, wait & see approach
  • “Cast down your buckets where you are”
  • fingers and the hand metaphor
  • Civil Rights movement
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Booker T. Washington

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"Of Our Spiritual Strivings"
"Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others"
(both are from Souls of Black Folk)
-born in Great Barrington, Mass
-family was free for generations
-attended integrated high school
-1st African American man to earn PhD from Harvard
-focus on sociology (contrast w/BTW)
-NAACP
-Harlem Renaissance
-pursue art, higher education
-"talented tenth"
-demand civil, political, and educational equality
-"double consciousness"
-Civil Rights movement
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W.E.B. DuBois

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"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
"I, Too"
"The Weary Blues"
"Song for a Dark Girl"
"Freedom"
-bases "I, Too" on Whitman's "I Hear America Singing"
-influenced by Whitman, free verse
-connects to working class
-deliberate rhythms to sound like music (blues & jazz)
-Harlem Renaissance
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Langston Hughes

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"The Eatonville Anthology"
"How it Feels to Be Colored Me"
-anthropologist
-Eatonville, FL
-regionalist
-Harlem Renaissance
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Zora Neale Hurston

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romanticism in America

Dickinson, Whitman

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transcendentalism

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``` Walt Whitman Emily Dickinson -idealize nature -unrealistic, larger than life hero -hero's journey -mythical -happy ending -transcendence ```
Romanticism
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opposite of your expectations happens
situational irony
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reader or audience knows something the characters don't
dramatic irony
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saying the opposite of what you mean
verbal irony