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SUBSET I: CSET English
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English
9th Grade
07/10/2010

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Term
Trickster Tale
Definition
an anthropomorphized animal often serves
as the protagonist. The trickster-hero can be a shape shifter, a cheat, a liar, or a rival to other animals,
humans, or the gods and is usually characterized by mischievous, deceptive, or even treacherous behavior
Term
Transcendentalism
Definition
Ralph Waldo Emoerson and Henery David Thoreau were advocates of this philosophy.
Term
Sonnet
Definition
fixed or
closed verse originated in Italy but was
introduced to England, where it was
developed and established as an English
literary tradition
Term
Neoclassical
Definition
The style in which early colonist's writings were written.
Term
Mayflower Compact
Definition
Vividly describe the hardships of crossing the Atlantic in a tiny vessel, the misery and suffering of the first winter, the approaches of the American Indians, the decamation of their ranks, and the establishment of the Bay Colony of Massachusetts.
Term
Anne Bradbury
Definition
Poet that related early New England life. Modern readers learn of the hardships of early settlers.
Term
A History of the Dividing Line
Definition
William Byrd's Journal chronicling his trek into the Dismal Swamp separating the Carolinian territories from Virginia and Maryland.
Term
Fireside Poets
Definition
James Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and John Greenleaf Whittier.
Term
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Definition
Writer of dark, brooding short-stories such as Dr. Heidegger's Experiment, The Devil and Tom Walker, and Rappuccini's Daugher.
Term
Scarlet Letter
Definition
New Englanders come to America for religious freedom, but end up finger-pointing an one another instead.
Term
Billy Budd
Definition
His Christ-like sacrifice to the black-and-white maritime laws on the high seas make up a central theme in this Melville tale.
Term
Henry David Thoreau
Definition
Wrote "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience."
Term
Walt Whitman
Definition
A Civil War poet who wrote often on the effect of the Civil War and the assasination of Lincoln.
Term
Realistic Period
Definition
Period after the Romantic Period and criticism of the romantics who they said looked at the world through "rose-colored" glasses.
Term
Red Badge of Courage
Definition
Stephen Crane wrote this book about the daily sufferning of the common soldier in the Civil War.
Term
American Drama, American Fiction, and American Poetry
Definition
Twentieth-Century Writing can be divided into the following three genres.
Term
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Definition
Eugene O'Neill
Term
Tennessee Williams
Definition
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Glass Menagerie, and a Street Car Named Desire.
Term
Edward Albee
Definition
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Three tall Women, and A Delicate Balance.
Term
Eudora Welty
Definition
The Optimist's Daughter
Term
Sinclair Lewis
Definition
Babbit and Elmer Gantry
Term
Ernest Hemingway
Definition
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Term
William Faulkner
Definition
The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom
Term
Bernard Malamud
Definition
The Fixer and The Natural
Term
Alice Walker
Definition
The Color Purple
Term
Zora Neale Hurston
Definition
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Term
Toni Morrison
Definition
Beloved, Jazz, and the Song of Solomon
Term
Louisa May Alcott
Definition
Little Women
Term
Betty Friedan
Definition
The Femine Mystique and The Second Stage
Term
Elizabeth Janeway
Definition
Man's World, Woman's Place: A Study in Social Mythology
Term
Adrienne Rich
Definition
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution and "Driving Into the Wreck."
Term
Geoffrey Chaucer
Definition
Considered the father of English literature.
Term
Thomas Malory
Definition
Author of "Le Morte d'Arthur"
Term
Sir Edmund Spencer
Definition
Creator of the Nine line stanza, with eight lines in iambic pentameter followed by an extra-footed ninth line or iambic hexameter.
Term
Three-quatrain sonnet concluding with one heroic couplet.
Definition
Format of Shakesperean Sonnet
Term
John Bunyan
Definition
Author of Pilgrim's progress
Term
John Milton
Definition
Author of "Paradise Lost"
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