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"Upon the half decayed veranda of a small frame house that stood near the edge of a ravine near the town of Winesburg, Ohio, a fat little old man walked nervously up and down."
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"Hands" by Sherwood Anderson
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"For twenty years Adolph Myers had lived alone in Winesburg. He was but forty but looked sixty-five. The name of Biddlebaum he got from a box of goods seen at a freight station as he hurried through an eastern Ohio town. He had an aunt in Winesburg, a blakck toothed old woman who raised chickens, and with her he lived until she died."
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"Hands" by Sherwood Anderson
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"In the dense blotch of light beneath the table, the kneeling figure looked like a pries engaged in some service of his church."
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"Hands" by Sherwood Anderson
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"Some say the world will end in fire. Some say in ice, From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire..."
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"Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost
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Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He gives his harness bells a shake, To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound's the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake
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"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost
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When I go away from you
The world beats dead Like a slackened drum "Madonna of the Evening Flowers" But I look at you. heart of silver White heart-flame of polished silver Burning beneath the blue steeples of the larkspur And I long to kneel instantly at your feet. |
"The Taxi" by Amy Lowell
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may i feel said he
(i'll squeel said she just once said he) it's fun said she |
e. e. cummings
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Buffalo Bill's
defunct who used to ride a watersmooth silver stallion and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat |
"Buffalo Bill's" by e. e. cummings
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so much depends
upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens. |
"The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams
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Coroner: A municipal officer charged with the duty of cutting up the unfortunate to see if they are dead. They always are.
Corpse: A person who manifests the highest possible degree of indifference that is consistent with a civil regard for the solicitude of others. Birth: The first and direst of all disasters Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage |
"The Devil's Dictionary" by Ambrose Bierce
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Calixta, at home, felt no uneasiness for their safety. She sat a side window sewing furiosly on a sewing machine. She was greatly occupied and did not notice the approching storm. But she felt very warm and often stopped to mop her face on which the perspiration gathered in beads. She unfasteed her white sacque at the throat......
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"The Storm" by Kate Chopin
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They did not heed the crashing torrents, and the roar of the elements made her laugh as she lay in his arms. She was a revelation in that dim, mysterious chamber; as white as the couch she lay upon. Her firm, elastic flesh that was knowing for the first time its birthright, was like a creamy lily that the sun invites to contribute its breath and perfu......
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"The Storm" by Kate Chopin
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So the storm passed and everyone was happy.
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"The Storm" by Kate Chopin
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The child was a boy aged about six years, the son of a poor planter. In his younger manhood the father had been a soldier, had fought against naked savages and followed the flag of his country into the capital of a civilized race to the far South. In the peaceful life of a planter.....
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"Chickamauga" by Ambrose Bierce
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They were men. They crept upon their hands and knees. They used their hands only, dragging their legs.
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"Chickamauga" by Ambrose Bierce
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The child moved his little hands, making wild, uncertain gestures. He uttered a series of inarticulate and indescribable cries - something between......
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"Chickamauge" by Ambrose Bierce
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He closed his eyes in order to fix his last thoughts upon his wife and children. The water, touched to gold by the early sun, the brooding mists under the banks at some distance down the stream, the fort, the soldiers, the piece of drift -- all had distracted him. And now he ......
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"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce
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As Peyton Farquhar fell straight downward through the bridghe he lost consciousness and was as one already dead. From this state he was awakened -- ages later, it seemed to him -- by the pain .....
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"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce
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Doubtless, despite his suffering, he had fallen asleep while walking, for now he sees another scene -- perhaps he has merely recovered from a delirium. He stands at the gate of his own home. All is as he left it, and all bright and beaurtiful in the morning sunshine. He must have traveled the entire night. As he pushes open ........
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"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce
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Cast it down in agriculture, mechanics, in commerce, in domestic service, and in the professions. And in this connection it is well to bear in mind that whatever other sins the South may be called to bear, when it comes to business, pure and simple, it is in ........
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"From Up from Slavery" (The Atlanta Exposition Address) by Booker T. Washington
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The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremest folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all the privelges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.
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"From Up From Slavery" (The Atlanta Exposition Address) by Booker T. Washington
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I have found that the happiest people are those who do the most for others; the most miserable are those who do the least.
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"From Up From Slavery" (The Atlanta Expostion Address) by Booker T. Washington
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At the man's heels trotted a dog, a big native huskey, the proper wolf-dog, gray-coated and withou .....
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"To Build a Fire" by Jack London
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He pulled the mitten on hurriedly and stood up. He was a bit frightened. He stamped up and down until the stinging returned into his feet. It certainly was cold, was his though.
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"To Build a Fire" by Jack London
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He worked slowly and carefully, keemly aware of his danger. Gradulally, as the flame grew stronger, he increased the size of the twigs with which he fed it.
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"To Build a Fire" by Jack London
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But before he could cut the strings, it happened. It was his own fault or, rather, his mistake. He should not have built the fire under the spruce tree.
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"To Build a Fire" by Jack London
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There is a recurrent spot where the pattern loll like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down.
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"The Yellow Wall-Paper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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I have watched John when he did not know I was looking, and come into the room suddenly on he most innocent excuses, and I've caught him several times looking at the paper!
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"The Yellow-Wall-Paper" by Charlotte Perkings Gilman
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I think that woman gets out in the daytime! And I'll tell you why-privately-I've seen her! I can see her out of every one of my windows!
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"The Yellow Wall-Paper" by Charlotte Perking Gilman
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About two miles from Summit was a little mountain, covered with a dense cedar brake. On the rear elevation of this mountain was a cave. There we stored provisions. One evening after sundown, we drove in a buggy past old Dorset's house. The kid was in the street, throwing rocks at a kitten on the opposite fence.
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"Ransom of Red Chief" by O. Henry
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Every few minutes he would remember that he was a pesky redskin, and pick up his stick rifle and tiptoe to the mouth of the cave to rubvber for the scouts of the hated paleface.
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"Ransom of Red Chief" by O. Henry
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Gentlemen: I recieved your letter to-day by post, in regard to the ransom you ask for the return of my son. I think you are a little high in your demands, and I hereby make you a home and pay me two hundred and fifty dollars in cash
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"Ransom of Red Chief" O. Henry
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Mr. Oakhurst did not drink. It interfered with a profession which required coolness, impassiveness and presence of mind.
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"The Outcasts of Poker Flat" by Bret Harte
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A careful inventory of the provisions, which, fortunately for the party, had been stored within the hut, and so escaped the folonious fingers of Uncle Billy.
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"The Outcasts of Poker Flat" by Bret Harte
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They slept all that day and the next, nor did they waken when voices and footsteps broke the silence of the camp. Ane when pitying fingers brushed the snow from their wan faces....
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"The Outcasts of Poker Flat" by Bret Harte
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It will be seen, also, that the situation was novel. Deaths were by no means uncommon in Roaring Camp, but a birth was a new thing.....
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"The Luck of Roaring Camp" by Bret Harte
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By the time he was a month old, the necessity of giving him a name became apparent. He had generally been known as "the Kid," Stumpy's boy," "the Cayote" (an allusion to his vocal powers) and even by Kentuck's endearing diminutive of .....
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"The Luck of Roaring Camp" by Bret Harte
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She stepped out on the porch and leaned against the wall of the house. Sky sang a red song. Fields whipered a green prayer. And song and prayer were dying in silence and shadow.
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"Long Black Song" by Richard Wright
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When morning came she would see the car of the white man from this hill and she would run down the road and tell him to go back; and then there would be no killing. Dim;y she saw in her mind a picture of men killing and being killed. White men killed the black and black men killed the white.
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"Long Black Song" by Richard Wright
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She lifted the baby and stood waiting for him to speak, to tell her something to change all this. But he said nothing. He walked toward the house. She followed As she attempted to go in, he blocked the way. She jumped to one side as he threw the red cloth outdoors to the ground.
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"Long Black Song" by Richard Wright.
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What is Samuel L. Clemens pen name?
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Mark Twain
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What does the pseudonym Mark Twain mean? (two meanings)
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"Two fathoms deep" & "safe water"
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Who was Twain's beloved "Livy"?
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Olivia Langdon
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Name 3 of Mark Twain's Early Works that established his career.
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The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1865), Tom Sawyer (1876), and Life on the Mississippi (1883)
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What are Mark Twain's early years referred to as?
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His "Tom Sawyer Days"
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The person within any story who conveys the story to the audience
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narrator
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The person who originates or gives existence to anything
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author
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a movement in the early 1900s Amercian poetry that favored precision of imagery and clear, sharp language
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imagism
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a literary movement taking place from 1880s to 1940s that used detailed realism to suggest that social condition, heredity, and environment had inescapable force in shaping human character.
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naturalism
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a writer who switches between genres or types of writing
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transitional writer
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refers to political cultural, and economic movements aimed at establishing greater rights and legal protections for women.
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Femenism
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Before the war, pre-war
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Antebellum Period
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refers to fiction or poetry that focuses on specific features of a particular region
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Regionalism
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Who are some Regionalism authors?
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Robert Frost (New England) Kate Chopin (Southern) Mark Twain (Southern)(Western) Bret Harte (Western)
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Who are some Imagism poets?
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Amy Lowell, Robert Frost, E. E. Cummings, William Carlos Williams
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Who are some Femenism writers?
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Kate Chopin, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Who are some Naturalism writers?
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Bret Harte, Jack London, Samuel Clemens
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Antebellum Period writers
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Booker T. Washington
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Transitional Writers
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The impact of the Civil War on Ambrose Bierce
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fought for the Union Army, his experiences in battles influenced the grim ironic stories such as "Chickamauga"
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The impact of the Civil War on Sidney Lanier.
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Plans for scholarly work was interrupted by the Civil War. He served for the Confederat Army, was captured and imprisoned under harsh conditions, and released 4 months later with tuberculosis, which eventually caused his death. His work "The Dying Words of Stonewall Jackson" is an act of tribue and commemoration to the Confederacy, although the irony of it is the lost cause of the Souther nation.
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Which poet was influenced by cubism?
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William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
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Whic poet wrote for the "eye more than the ear"?
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E. E. Cummings (1894-1962
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What imagism is and how it influenced poetry.
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Imagism favors the precision of imagery and clear, sharp language. It influenced poetry by creating a free-verse and use of visual images. It allowed a non-traditional way of writing.
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