Survey of American Literature II

Mid-Term Review

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A: Who is Walt Whitman?

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This author was a master of self-promotion.

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A: Who is the narrator of “Some keep the Sabbath going to church?

She kept the Sabbath “staying at home…”

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A: What is generations to come?

“Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” is addressed to this diverse group.

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A: What is the Jeremiad.

Frederick Douglass’s famous speech “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” is an example of this earlier

literary form.

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A: What is the middle of the 19th century?

As a group, the “bridge” authors span this significant historical era.

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A: Who is Emily Dickinson?

This poet is sometimes known as “The Belle of Amherst.”

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A: Who is Robert Frost?

This poet famously said, “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader…”

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A: What is The Red Wheelbarrow ?

This poem by William Carlos Williams is noted for its simple complexity (or is

that complex simplicity?).

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A: Who is William Carlos Williams?

Author of the telling line “Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks.”

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A: Answers will vary. Instructor discretion.

Provide an image from Billy Collins’s “Introduction to Poetry” that describes

your current approach to reading poetry.

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A: What is a romanticism (or realism)?

Chronologically, this “ism” comes first (among those we’ve covered

this term).

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A: Answers will vary. Instructor discretion.

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Name one writer whose work is sometimes classified as “naturalist.”

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A: What is none of them?

Name a story we read that fits neatly into just one “ism” category

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A: Who is William Dean Howells?

This “realist” author was sometimes accused of creating a “tempest in a

teacup.”

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A: What is modernism?

This “ism” follows “naturalism” in the general chronology of American Lit

(though we haven’t discussed it much as yet).

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A: What is Freytag’s Pyramid?

This shapely idea gives form to the plot points of many of the short stories

we’ve read.

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A: What are metaphor and simile?

These two “tropes” are the most commonly known of the four major

tropes.

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A: What is the canon?

This term means, among other things, the body of rules, standards, or

principles accepted as axiomatic or binding

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A: What is a conceit?

Rather than a stuck-up person, this term refers to the governing idea or trope in a

work of literature.

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A: What is foreshadowing?

By giving the oiler a name, Stephen Crane is employing this literary device.

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A: What is “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost?

“Something there is that doesn’t love a wall…”

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A: What is “The Souls of Black Folk” by WEB Dubois?

“The Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-

sight…”

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A: What is “The Open Boat” by Stephen Crane?

“If I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who

rule the sea, was I allowed to come this far…?”

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A: What is “[I, being born a woman]” by Edna St. Vincent Millay?

“…let me make it plain:I find this frenzy insufficient reasonFor conversation when we meet again”

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A: What is “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce?

“Death is a dignitary who, when he comes announced, is to be received with formal manifestations of respect, even

by those most familiar with him.”

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A: What is “On a Side Track” by Mary Hallock Foote?

This story is set in Idaho.

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A: What is “Editha” by William Dean Howells?

This eponymous character rises out of the vulgar “to live again in the ideal.”

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A: What is “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gillman?

The rest cure not being very effective, the main character in this story goes

around (and around) the bend.

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A: What is “Roman Fever” by Edit Wharton?

The zinger in this story is a revelation about paternity.

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A: What is “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell?

Though not precisely “short fiction” this text has many hallmarks of fiction,

including strong characters and a nicely knotted plot line.

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QuestionA: What is epistemology?

According to this knowledge-making worldview, texts are the products of

readers and writers collaborating in the moments of production and

consumption.

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