Reading Flashcards
(26 cards)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
Sense and Sensibility, Emma, & Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
My Antonia, Death Comes for the Archbishop, Paul’s Case
Willa Cather
The Open Boat & The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane
Success is Counted Sweet, I’m Nobody, & I Heard a Fly Buzz
Emily Dickinson
Self Reliance, On Being Asked Whence is the Flower, & The Over-Soul
Ralph Waldo Emerson 📚🐛
This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and the Damned, & The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Diary of Anne Frank
Anne Frank
Fire and Ice, Out Out, Nothing Gold Can Stay,Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening, & The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
Ode on Melancholy, Ode to a Nightingale, Eve of St. Agnes, & Ode to Psyche
John Keats (British)
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Screwtape Letters & Narnia
C. S. Lewis
ancient stories that have a set form and often handed down orally
traditional literature
18/19 century, literary movement focused on imagination, freedom, beauty, and the wildness of the natural world
romanticism
19th century, reaction to romanticism, gritty/true perspective on life
realism
branch of realism, focused on impact of nature
naturalism
early 20th century, acknowledged the fact that knowledge is not absolute, themes reflected loss of tradition and gaining of independence and technology
modernism
late 20th century, complete loss of tradition and truth in order to free readers from false rationality
surrealism
Langston Hughes, Zora Hurston, Cullen, etc
Harlem Renaissance
John Keats, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron
British Romantics
John Donne, Andrew Marvell, George Herbert
Metaphysical Poets
Ralph Waldo Emerson & Henry David Thoreau
Transcendentalists