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US Lit final
Review over all terms, authors, etc.
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Literature
Undergraduate 2
12/11/2017

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author, "Criticism & Fiction"
Definition
Howells
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author, "Burning of House"
Definition
Bradstreet
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author, "Contemplations"
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Bradstreet
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author, "Autobiography"
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Franklin
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featured in Fireside poets
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Longfellow
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featured in Transcendental optimists
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Emerson, Thoreau
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featured in Transcendental pessimists
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Hawthorne, Poe
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works of Emerson
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Nature, "Rhodora", Self-reliance
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works of Longfellow
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"Psalm of life", "Song of Hiawatha"
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author, "White Heron"
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Jewett
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author, "Village singer"
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Freeman
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author, "Lion's Paw"
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Garland
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author, "Owl Creek Bridge"
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Bierce
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author, "To Build a Fire"
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London
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works of Dunbar
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"Mask", "When all is Done", "Hymn"
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works of Robinson
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"Richard Cory", "Miniver Cheevy"
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author,"Death of Hired Man"
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Frost
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author, "Taxi"
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Lowell
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author, Spoon River Anthology
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Masters
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teach Christ's love despite difficulties
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Emily S
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listen to good advice before it's too late
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Reuben P
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use circumstances to your advantage
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Lois S
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care more about people than #s
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Rev Samuel W
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persistence pays off
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Hannah A
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embrace life, no matter what it encompasses
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Lucinda M
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author, "Prufrock"
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Eliot
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author, "Spring & All"
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Williams
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author, "Baby party"
Definition
Fitzgerald
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author, "Rosicky"
Definition
Cather
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author, "Old Man at the Bridge"
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Hemingway
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penance vs penitence
Definition
paying for wrong vs true heart repentance
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anaphora
Definition
when word or phrase repeats a lot
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local color
Definition
unique qualities of life in particular location (behavior, not speech)
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Realism (def, Howells)
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"Truthful treatment of material"
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picaresque
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novel about rogue hero
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bildungsroman
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coming of age
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targets of Huck Finn/ Twain
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Romanticism, civilization, religion, society
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Naturalism themes
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trap of social circumstances
man a pitiful creature, as animal
cosmic chill
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cosmic chill
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nature indifferent, hostile to man
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Imagism guidelines
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new rhythms to show nee moods
absolute freedom in subject choice
hard & clear, never blurred or indefinite
render exact particulars
use common speech
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part of Lost generation
coined term "Jazz Age"
Definition
Fitzgerald
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journalistic style
Definition
very few adj's or adv's
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hypellage
Definition
reverses grammar
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