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E316K Final
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English
Undergraduate 3
05/03/2011

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The Awakening
Definition
Kate Chopin
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Editha (sig)
Definition
William Dean Howells, a pro realist writing against novels like The Awakening
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The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock
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T.S. Elliot
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Ezra Pound (sig)
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Edited the Wasteland by T.S. Elliot
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Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of an Eurasian
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Sui Sin Far
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A Bintel Brief
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Abraham Cahan
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Spring
Poem about Nature, spring, twigs, beauty, smell of the earth, no death, maggots empty cup, april, idiots
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
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I shall forget you presently my dear

Poem about time, forgetting, dying, moving away longer lived
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
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I being born a woman and distressed
Poem about person fair, zest clarify the pulse and cloud the mind "my scorn with pity"
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
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I will put chaos into 14 lines
Actually wrote 14 of fire, demon strain, rape, duress arrogance, awful
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
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By the road to the contagious hospital
Has nothing to do with the hospital itself, is very descriptive very sensory: cold wind, brown dried weeds, reddish purplish twiggy bushes.
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William Carlos Williams
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So Much Depends/ The Red Wheelbarrow
Its about a red wheelbarrow next to some chickens
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William Carlos Williams
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This is just to say
* you would recognize this*
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William Carlos Williams
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Daddy

Written in stanzas of 5 (daddy is a word with 5 letters)
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Sylvia Plath
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Lady Lazarus
Written in stanzas of 3 (Lazarus has 3 syllables)
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Sylvia Plath
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Child
shortest poem, no German references, no holocaust references, just very descriptive, very sensory
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Sylvia Plath
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The New Negro
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Alain Locke
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The Negro Poet and the Racial Mountain
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Langston Hughes
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The Negro Speaks of Rivers
* you would never guess this but its all about rivers!*
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Langston Hughes
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The Weary Blues
* Its about...you guessed it...the blues!*
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Langston Hughes
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I Too
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Langston Hughes
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Mother to Son
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Langston Hughes
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Battle Royal
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Ralph Waldo Ellison
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Barn Burning
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William Faulkner
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Half and Half/ The Joy Luck Club
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Amy Tan
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Name a/the Literary Realists
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Kate Chopin
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Name a/the Modernist Poets
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T.S. Eliot and William Carlos Williams
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What is synesthesia?
Definition
when one sense is connected to an other unrelated sense, such as seeing mad, or feeling the color blue, loud shirt, bitter wind.
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"Make it new"
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Ezra Pound's comment about Modernism
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"In or about December 1910 human nature changed"
Definition
Virginia Woolf's comment about the modern writer's fervent desire to break with the past, rejecting literary traditions that seemed outmoded and diction that seemed too genteel to suit an era of technological breakthroughs and global violence. This was the time of the automobile and airplane
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Name a/the Immigrant Writers
Definition
Sui Sin Far, Zitkala Sa, and Abraham Cahan
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Dawes Act
Definition
dividing reservation lands into privately owned parcels, legislators hoped to complete the assimilation process by forcing the deterioration of the communal life-style of the Native societies and imposing Western-oriented values of strengthening the nuclear family and values of economic dependency strictly within this small household unit
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"Unguarded Gates"
* Adresses the statue of Liberty and questions immigration, he is not in support of it"
Definition
T. Bailey Aldrich
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Nativism
Definition
White Anglo Americans opposed to Immigration on cultural, economic and religious grounds
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Indian Boarding School Movement
Definition
The reservation school movement was "invented" by the descendants of those who rode the Manifest Destiny band wagon. Educating Indians was the refinement of the times, a continuation of the process, its effort was to confine Indians to sedentary life and open more land for use by whites.
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Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
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The Act excluded Chinese "skilled and unskilled laborers and Chinese employed in mining" from entering the country for ten years under penalty of imprisonment and deportation
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Name a/the Confessional School Writers
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Sylvia Plath
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Name a/the Harlem Renaissance Writers
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Langston Hughes and Alain Locke
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Name a/the Modernist Fiction Writers
Definition
Ernest Hemingway and Faulkner
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Lost Generation
Definition
Gertrude Stein would take this phrase and use it to describe the people of the 1920's who rejected American post World War I values. The three best known writers among The Lost Generation are F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner
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Iceberg Theory
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The meaning of a piece is not immediately evident, because the crux of the story lies below the surface, just as most of the mass of a real iceberg similarly lies beneath the surface
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Yoknapatawpha County
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is a fictional county created by the American author William Faulkner as a setting for many of his novels.
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stream of consciousness
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a narrative mode that seeks to portray an individual's point of view by giving the written equivalent of the character's thought processes, either in a loose interior monologue, or in connection to his or her actions.
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Atlanta Exposition Address
Definition
that ridiculous Uncle Tom address Booker T Washington gave in 1895 he endorsed segregation and thought blacks should just work as a laboring class and nothing more
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Name a/the author(s) that considered themselves as "Between Two Cultures"
Definition
Li-Young Lee, Amy Tan and technically Sui Sin Far
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Enjambment
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Enjambment or enjambement is the breaking of a syntactic unit (a phrase, clause, or sentence) by the end of a line or between two verses. It is to be contrasted with end-stopping, where each linguistic unit corresponds with a single line, and caesura, in which the linguistic unit ends mid-line.
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