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AmLit Test 2
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Undergraduate 2
03/27/2012

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2 black journals
Definition
Crisis (NAACP)
Opportunity
Term
most powerful technological innovation at time?
Definition
automobile
Term
four nobel peace winners
Definition
john steinbeck
eugene o'neil
william faulkner
ernest hemingway
Term
two hollywood screenwriters
Definition
f. scott fitzgerald
william faulkner
Term
america's first playwright
Definition
eugene o'neil
Term
1st blamerican author to have bestseller
Definition
richard wright
Term
ms writers
Definition
william faulkner
richard wright
Term
define and two examples little magazines
Definition
lit mags of very small circulation for publication of works for small audience:
poetry
egoist
others
Term
define and two examples expatriates
Definition
a person who goes to live abroad, mostly to europe:
f scott fitzgerald
robert frost
ee cummings
hd
ernest hemingway
ezra pound
t.s. eliot
claude mckay
langston hughes
richard wright
Term
list and give two examples imagist
Definition
poems devoid of explanation or declamaition, unrhymed lacking regular beat to arrest attention and convey emotion:
hd
amy lowell


marianne moore
williams carlos williams
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list and two examples harlem renaissance
Definition
period when black american art and music and literature flourished in harlem, new york:
claude mckay
countee cullen
langston hughes
james baldwin
zora neale hurston
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"the captured goddess"
Definition
amy lowell
Term
"venus transiens"
Definition
amy lowell
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"september, 1918"
Definition
amy lowell
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"a high-toned christian woman"
Definition
wallace stevens
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"the snow man"
Definition
wallace stevens
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"thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird"
Definition
wallace stevens
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"of modern poetry"
Definition
wallace stevens
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"portrait of a lady"
Definition
williams carlos willams
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"the widow's lament in springtime"
Definition
wms carlos wms
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"spring and all"
Definition
wms carlos wms
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"the red wheelbarrow"
Definition
wms carlos wms
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"this is just to say"
Definition
wms carlos wms
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"to whistler, american"
Definition
ezra pound
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"a pact"
Definition
ezra pound
Term
"in a station of the metro"
Definition
ezra pound
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"mid-day"
Definition
hd
Term
"oread"
Definition
hd
Term
"leda"
Definition
hd
Term
"helen"
Definition
hd
Term
"poetry"
Definition
marianne moore
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"the paper nautilus"
Definition
marianne moore
Term
"the mind is an enchanting thing"
Definition
marianne moore
Term
"in distrust of merits"
Definition
marianne moore
Term
"the love song of j. alfred prufrock"
Definition
t.s. eliot
Term
"the hollow men"
Definition
t.s. eliot
Term
"journey of the magi"
Definition
t.s. eliot
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"if we must die"
Definition
claude mckay
Term
"africa"
Definition
claude mckay
Term
"america"
Definition
claude mckay
Term
"how it feels to be colored me"
Definition
zora neale hurston
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"the gilded six-bits"
Definition
zora neale hurston
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"in just"
Definition
ee cummings
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"next to of course god america and i"
Definition
ee cummings
Term
"anyone lived in a pretty how town"
Definition
ee cummings
Term
"barn burning"
Definition
william faulkner
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"the negro speaks of rivers"
Definition
langston hughes
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"mother to son"
Definition
langston hughes
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"i, too, sing america"
Definition
langston hughes
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"theme for english b"
Definition
langston hughes
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"yet do i marvel"
Definition
countee cullen
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"heritage"
Definition
countee cullen
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"winesburg, ohio"
Definition
sherwood anderson
Term
"neighbor, rosicky"
Definition
willa cather
Term
"the death of the hired man"
Definition
robert frost
Term
"the leader of the people"
Definition
john steinbeck
Term
"mending wall"
Definition
frost
Term
"the road not taken"
Definition
frost
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"fire and ice"
Definition
frost
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"stopping by woods on a snowy evening"
Definition
frost
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"design"
Definition
frost
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"trifles"
Definition
susan glaspell
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"babylon revisited"
Definition
f. scott fitzgerald
Term
"the snows of kilimanjaro"
Definition
ernest hemingway
Term
"The man who was almost a man"
Definition
richard wright
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abandons successful business career to become writer
Definition
sherwood anderson
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part of chicago renaissance
Definition
sherwood anderson
carl sandburg
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"slice of life" stories
Definition
sherwood anderson
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poetic aim: celebrate american worker
Definition
carl sandburg
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one of most widely read poets in US between 20's and 30's
Definition
carl sandburg
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1914: achieves success with "chicago" in poetry magzine
Definition
carl sandburg
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begins as journalist in college
Definition
willa cather
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writes multi-volume bio on abe lincoln
Definition
carl sandburg
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most famous novels settle on western heroine: o pioneer, song of the lark, my antionia
Definition
willa cather
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sees frontier not as melting pot, but as shifting kaleidoscope of overlapping social groups and individuals
Definition
willa cather
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1922: changes career, poor health; joins episcopal church. work begins to focus on spiritul crisis
Definition
willa cather
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1927: writes Death comes to the archbishoP
Definition
willa cather
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describes own work as "unfurnished"
Definition
willa cather
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feels that he is born out of time, too late
Definition
edwin arlington
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New england regional poets
Definition
edwin arlington
robert frost
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ever-present sense of a lost, glorious past
Definition
edwin arlington
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over 50 when he won his first pulitzer, wins 3 in all poetry
Definition
edwin arlington
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pulitzer winners
Definition
edwin arlington
john steinbeck
susan glaspell
wms carlos wms
marianne moore
eugene o neil
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poetry: traditional form
metrically regular verse and rhymes
elevated diction
NOT modernist
Definition
edwin arlington
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lives briefly in england, first published there
Definition
robert frost
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ezra pound helps him w/ american editors
Definition
robert frost
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poetry: clarity of diction, colloquial rhythms, simplicity of images
Definition
robert frost
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the "folky speaker"
Definition
robert frost
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rejects modernism
Definition
robert frost
edwin arlington
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most of best writing set in home, salinas valley & monterey peninsula of CA
Definition
john steinbeck
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his work 1. merges lit modernism w/ lit realism 2. celebrates traditioanl rural communities along w/ social outcats and immigrants 3. endorses conservative values & radical politics at same time
Definition
john steinbeck
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1939: Grapes of wrath, most famous and ambitious novel, number 1 best seller, pulitzer
Definition
john steinbeck
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journalist, novelist, short story writer, playwright, theatrical producer, director, actor
Definition
susan glaspell
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more than 50 short stories, novels, 14 plays
Definition
susan glaspell
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her and 1st husband help found the Princeton Players
Definition
susan glaspell
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1912 almost dies of tb
Definition
eugene o neil
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part of princeton players, not founder
Definition
eugene o neil
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wins 4 pulitzers
Definition
eugene o neil
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dramatizes family's life- Long days journey into night
Definition
eugene o neill
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1925: meets sherwood anderson, encourages him to develop own style and purpose
Definition
william faulkner
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major influences are james joyce and freud
Definition
william faulkner
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first novel soldier's play
Definition
william faulkner
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"sartoris and the sound and the fury" his favorite of his own work
Definition
william faulkner
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"as i lay dying"
Definition
william faulkner
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"sanctuary"
Definition
william faulkner
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"light in august"
Definition
william faulkner
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"absalom! absalom! (teacher's favorite)
Definition
william faulkner
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"portable faulkner" (collection of stories)
Definition
william faulkner
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"intruder in the dust" (anti-meist)
Definition
william faulkner
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yoknapatawpha county- setting of stories
Definition
william faulkner
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snopes trilogy: the hamlet, the town, the mansion
Definition
william faulkner
Term
dies of heart attack
Definition
william faulkner
Term
Who made the bollinger and for whom?
Definition
library of congress for poets
Term
works for insurance company
Definition
wallace stevens
Term
modernist ideology
Definition
wallace stevens
Term
poetry: unexpected diction, allusion to music, packed with sensory images
Definition
wallace stevens
Term
medical doctor
Definition
wms carlos wms
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thinks himself to be most understated poet of his day
Definition
wms carlos wms
Term
friends with ezra pound and hd
Definition
wms carlos wms
Term
simplicity in verse (everyday, relational)
Definition
wms carlos wms
Term
bollinger prize winners
Definition
wms carlos wms
marianne moore
eec
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nat'l book award winners
Definition
wms carlos wms
marianne moore
eec (special cite)
Term
radically inventive female modernist
Definition
marianne moore
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"the poet's poet"-powerful influence on later writers
Definition
marianne moore
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poems are" imaginary gardens with real toads in them"
Definition
marianne moore
Term
editor of Dial
Definition
marianne moore
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3 yrs at princeton, affected by how he didn't make the football team
Definition
f. scott
Term
quits princeton to join army, war ends before he's deployed
Definition
f. scott
Term
stationed in AL, marries zelda after his overnight fame
Definition
f. scott
Term
moves to europe, as one daughter with zelda
Definition
f. scott
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"the great gatsby"
Definition
f. scott
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short stories for sat evening post to get out of debt
Definition
f. scott
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dies of heart attack at 44, alchoholic, wife is institutionalized
Definition
f. scott
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"agreeeable" modernist poet
Definition
eec
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poetry: attention to visual form-verse shapes, experiments with capitalization, punctuation, line breaks, hyphenation
Definition
eec
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untitles poems, with no beginning or ending
Definition
eec
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from the prestigious boston family
Definition
amy lowell
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professional female author at 38
Definition
amy lowell
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reads hd and converts to imagism, becomes chief rep
Definition
amy lowell
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works with symbolic vocab of flowers or color
Definition
amy lowell
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Resurrection with feminist movements
Definition
amy lowell
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uses color a LOT throughout poem (and flowers)
Definition
amy lowell
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meets wms carlos wms and ezra pound in college, engaged to pound
Definition
hd
Term
in vienna, patient of freud, helps him escape persecution
Definition
hd
Term
petry represents imagist with vivid phrasing and compelling imagery (not amy l)
Definition
hd
Term
female poet that avoids abstraction and generalization
Definition
hd
Term
ambulance corps in WWI, decorated hero
Definition
e hemingway
Term
first novel "the sun also rises"
Definition
e hemingway
Term
iceberg principle of writing expression
Definition
e hemingway
Term
courage: grace under pressure
Definition
e hemingway
Term
war correspondent during spanish civil war
Definition
e hemingway
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"for whom the bell tolls"
Definition
e hemingway
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badly hurt in plane crash
Definition
e hemingway
Term
prominent in choosing good news poets
Definition
ezra pound
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imagist turned vorticist
Definition
ezra pound
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supports mussolinni, becomes propoganda broadcaster
Definition
ezra pound
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