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68 Cards in this Set
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Compared to the other New England school poets, Longfellow used what? |
Greatest variety of genres and verse forms
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3 ideas true about Whittier were what
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•His poetry presents a detailed picture of rural life
•He is least typical of the New England school •He had no formal poetic training |
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"The lesson" is chiefly about
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Pride
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"Old Ironsides" had what special significance for Holmes?
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The poem launched his literary career
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The introductory poem from Divina Commedia was part of what larger effort by Longfellow?
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Translating from Italian into English of Dante's Divine Comedy
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What is the likely reason that "The Lesson" is not anthologized often in secular collections?
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Biblical messages
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According to most sources, the "tumult of the time disconsolate" in the introductory poem from Divina Commedia probably refers to the what rather than to personal grief?
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Civil war
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3 ideas that are true about Emerson
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•He was the 19th century's arch heretic
•He found his true vocation in lecturing throughout America •He was the philosophical leader of the Transcendentalism |
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3 ideas that are central to the contradiction of Christianity by Emerson's Transcendentalism
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•The divinity of man
•The irrelevance of the Bible •The perfectibility of society |
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3 ideas true about Thoreau
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•He tried teaching after graduating from Harvard
•His life was characterized by nonconformity •The central event of his life was his residence at Walden Pond |
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3 ideas represented in the Thoreau's view in "Civil Disobedience"
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•The individual is above state
•Ideally, citizens should be neighbors to the state rather subjects to it •A person is justified in breaking any law he considers bad |
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3 ideas true about Whitman
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•He extended Emerson's ideas to their logical outcomes
•His most harmful long range effect has been to encourage total freedom in poetic content and style •He has had a strong influence on modern American poetry |
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According the Thoreau in "Civil Obedience", what is the best government?
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That which governs none at all
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What is the name of Whitman's central work, a collection of poems refined and revised for 37 years?
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Leaves of grass
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What are the 3 dominant symbols of "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"?
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Lilac, star, thrush
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Emerson reveals development in constant than in style using what?
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Prose and poetry
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In "Civil Disobedience" Thoreau applies transcendental principles to what?
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Politics
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3 principles for literary composition by Poe
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•A work must have high literary quality, not just develop typical American content
•A single emotion or mood should dominate a work •A work should be short enough to read in one sitting |
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3 ideas about Hawthorne
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•His literary career can be divided into stages of literary preparation, short story, and novel
•No other 19th century writer was more strongly attracted to American history •He frequently criticized the unrealistic optimism of Transcendentalism |
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Although Hawthorne ordinarily uses historical settings for his fiction, he?
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He stressed the universal themes of isolation, guilt, and pride
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3 ideas about Melville
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•Moby Dick, his greatest work, reveals the culmination of his interest in symbol and ambiguity
•His own experiences at sea provided the background for his best fiction •He favored a realistic style, which attempted to represent the world exactly as he saw it |
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Poe was the first American writer to influence his successors in what 3 genres?
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Fiction, poem, criticism
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Why does Hawthorne set "The Birthmark" in the 18th century?
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18th century's Age of Reason is appropriate for Aylmers character
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Why has Melville attracted so much attention from modern critics?
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Modern critics are sympathetic to Melville's raising question about Gods goodness and about the existence of meaning in the universe
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Because he believed that mans instincts for truth, beauty, and duty were completely independent impulses, Poe attacked the view that literature should be a means of
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Instruction
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Realism and naturalism appeared on the literary scene in the years?
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1865-1914
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3 major groups of writers during this time period were?
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Regionalists, realists, naturalists
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The three writers who are considered the "masters of realism" are?
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Howells, James, and Clemens
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What best describes a naturalist?
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The believed that life was controlled by inexplicable forces
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The regionalists served as the transition between what 2 groups of writers?
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Romantics and realist
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Instead of emphasizing plot or setting, Sarah Orne Jewetts short stories emphasize what element?
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Characterization
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Who wrote about the simple, country people of Maine?
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Sarah Orne Jewett
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Who was regarded by many as the first American writer to use black humor
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Ambrose Bierce
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Dressed in white during last years of life
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Emily Dickinson
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Gained fame with the publication of "The Luck of roaring camp"
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Bret Harte
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Combined interest in music and poetry in "The symphony"
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Sidney Lanier
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Published only seven poems during lifetime
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Emily Dickinson
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Skillfully used western dialect
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Bret Harte
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Powerfully portrayed the farmers plight
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Hamlin Garland
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Described his brand of realism as veritism
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Hamlin Garland
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What story has the theme of Appearances can be deceiving
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"The Purloined letter"
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What story has the theme of Man is flawed and lives out a futile and isolated existence
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"Bartleby the Scrivener" |
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Theme- man should be conscious of his proneness to sin
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"The ministers black veil"
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Theme- man should be a passive receiver of present truth
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"Self-Reliance"
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Theme- live free of restraint
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"Song of myself"
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Theme- live simply and deliberately
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Walden
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Who embodied the international spirit
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Henry James
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Who embodied the frontier spirit
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens
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At the end of the literary period of realism and naturalism, the prevailing spirit es on of what?
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Pessimism
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Who rejected Christ became "it is hard for me to give up the world"
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Emily Dickinson
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Who wrote "The county of pointed firs"
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Sarah Orne Jewett |
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Who wrote "The rise of Silas Lapham"
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William dean howells
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Who wrote a daughter of a middle border?
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Hamlin Garland
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Who wrote "The cynics wordbook"
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Ambrose Bierce
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Who wrote "The adventures of Tom Sawyer"
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Samuel Clemons
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Who wrote "The American"
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Henry James
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Christopher can be described as these 3 things
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Determined, intelligent, resourceful
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In the Adventures of huckleberry fin, the author ties the episodes together by using?
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A common setting
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Who was appointed by Lincoln to American consulate
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William dean Howells
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Who was noted for his psychological realism |
Henry James |
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Madecolloquil speech of the frontier into an artistic form |
Samuel Langhorne Clemens |
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Reacted against didacticism in fiction |
Henry James |
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Brought respectability to to realism |
William Dean Howells |
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Developed the" international theme" through his characters |
Henry James |
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Became the most famous 19th century American expatriate |
Henry James |
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Was both a humorist and a satirist |
Samuel Langhorn Clemens |
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Was mad famous by a tall tale |
Samuel Langhorn Clemes |
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Wrote: "The Rise of SIlas Lapham" |
William Dean Howells |
