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Years covered by Colonial Period
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1620's to the early 17th C
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Years covered by the Era of Reason and Revolution
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1700-1800; everything being turned upside down revolution
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wrote Poor Richard's Almanack
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Franklin
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he's poor and could use some francs
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wrote Common Sense
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Paine
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Years of the Age of Romanticism
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1815-1848
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Primary Values of Age of Romanticism
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reaction to neoclassicism, intuition more important than reasoning, value of individual, love of nature, free verse, feminist movement, level of education rising, variety of form, transcendentalism
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wrote "The Rhodora"
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Emerson
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wrote Civil Disobedience
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Thoreau
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very thorough about government issues
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wrote Moby Dick
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Melville
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smells
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wrote Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
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Longfellow
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wrote Cask of Amontillado; setting
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Poe; Venice
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The definition of human condition
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coming of age, marriage, death, birth, rites of passage
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What is transcendentalism and who is spokesman
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intuitive knowledge; Emerson
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Thoreau wrote: (info about him)
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"Civil Disobedience" and "Walden Pond"; had school of transcendentalism, believed divine law was higher than secular law
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Age of Realism began when and what characterized it?
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began 1850 (began in 19th C but reached full potential in 20th C); society changed most by social upheavals, sexual revolution- the pill, originated in France, inventions, women role increased
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the greatest american novel and its author
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"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain
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the dividing line between the traditional and the modern novel
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1920, roughly
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Who wrote Tennessee's partner and what is it an example of?
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Bret Harte; an example of regionalism in the US before we had a sense of nationalism
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wrote "A Rose for Emily"
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Faulkner; takes place in Jefferson
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wrote "Hills Like White Elephants"
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Hemmingway; about abortion, takes place in Spain; "the american" and a girl named Jig
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wrote Less Than Zero
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Bret Easton Ellis
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What does setting mean in fiction?
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time and place
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America's greatest female poet
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Dickinson
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2 poems E.A. Robinson wrote:
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-"Richard Cory:" everyone envied this man, but he put a bullet in his head; -"Miniver Cheevy:" he proclaimed he should've been born in a different era
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Poems by Robert Frost
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Road Not Taken, Stopping by Woods, Birches, Mending Wall
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Who wrote "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "The Wasteland"??
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T.S. Eliot
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This poet was known for unorthodox use of capitalization/tradition and wrote "Anyone Lived in a Pretty Town"
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E.E. Cummings
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poet came out of Harlem Renaissance and wrote The Negro Speaks
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Langston Hughes
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a lyrical poet and a playwright, she was the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Known for her unconventional lifestyle. Best known poem, "First Fig"
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Edna Millay
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poet won 2 Pulitzer Prizes for his biography of Lincoln and a collection of poems. Famous poem, "Chicago" and "The City of Big Show" Many works focused on IL and Chicago
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Carl Sandburg
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one of America's most influential fiction writers from Miss, known for using long serpentine sentences. He wrote The Sound and the Fury
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Faulkner
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a rough name for furious f
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Wrote The Grapes of Wrath which examines lives of working class and migrant workers during the Depression. Also wrote novella Of Mice and Men
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Steinbeck
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When did the modern era in literature begin?
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1920?
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When was Post-Modernism and what were its defining features?
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1970 on. Disillusionment (women especially) to find a lover; distortion of reality
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wrote Flight
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Steinbeck
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