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American Literature II Exam I
FlashCards for the First Exam.
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Literature
Undergraduate 2
10/04/2009

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Author: "Huckleberry Finn"
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Mark Twain
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Author: "The Beast in the Jungle"
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Henry James
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Author: "The Awakening"
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Kate Chopin
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Author: "The Yellow Wall-paper"
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Author: "Maggie"
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Steven Crane
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Author: "The Road Not Taken"
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Robert Frost
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Author: "The Mending Wall"
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Robert Frost
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Author: "The Emperor of Ice Cream"
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Wallace Stevens
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Author: "Thirteen ways of looking at a Blackbird"
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Wallace Stevens
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Author: "Poetry"
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Marianne Moore
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Author: "What are Years?"
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Marianne Moore
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Author: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
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T.S Eliot
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Author: "Barn Burning"
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William Faulkner
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Author: "Babylon Revisited"
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Define the Term: Gospel of Wealth
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The idea that accumulation of wealth is parallel to morality (Social Darwinism)
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Define the Term: Bildungsroman
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A coming of age story where the character grows, develops, and moves on to a brighter future.
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Define the Term: Picaresque
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A satyrical portrayal of a common character as a hero in a corrupt world.
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Define the Term: Realism
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A rejection of romanticism and its distortions of reality. Depicts realistic situations. Movement based on a simplification of style and image and an interest in poverty and everyday concerns. Incorporated Local Color/Regionalism.
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Define the Term: Rest Cure
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First introduced by Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, a "treatment" for hysteria. Involved a state of complete mental and physical inactivity.
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Define the Term: Naturalism
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Features low class characters confronting major crises and being destroyed by them. "Human beings are products of their environment". Fate is generally destructive. Nature is an opposing force and is indifferent to human systems of justice.
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Define the Term: Elegy
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A poem written in memoriam of someone/something.
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Define the Term: Allusion
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A figure of speech that makes a reference to, or representation of, a place, event, literary work, myth, or work of art, either directly or by implication.
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Define the Term: Flat Character
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A static character, one that does not change or grow during the course of a story.
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Define the Term: Round Character
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A dynamic character that grows as a person and is brought to new awareness during the course of a story.
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Identify the work with the following character: Widow Douglas
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"Huck Finn"
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Identify the work with the following character: Mrs. Watson
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"Huck Finn"
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Identify the work with the following character: Tom Sawyer
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"Huck Finn"
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Identify the work with the following character: Pap
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"Huck Finn"
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Identify the work with the following character: Huckleberry Finn
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"Huck Finn"
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Identify the work with the following character: Jim (a slave)
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"Huck Finn"
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What does fog represent in literature?
Definition
Uncertainty, doubt, the "unknown".
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What does water represent in "The Awakening" and "Huck Finn"?
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Freedom
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Identify the work with the following character: The Duke and the Dauphin
Definition
"Huck Finn"
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Identify the work with the following character: Edna Pontellier
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"The Awakening" - Kate Chopin
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Identify the work with the following character: Leonce Pontellier
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"The Awakening" - Kate Chopin
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Identify the work with the following character: Adele (Madame) Ratignolle
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"The Awakening" - Kate Chopin
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Identify the work with the following character: Robert Lebrun
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"The Awakening" - Kate Chopin
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Identify the work with the following character: Mademoiselle Reisz
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"The Awakening" - Kate Chopin
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Identify the work with the following character: Jimmie
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"Maggie" - Stephen crane
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Identify the work with the following character: Maggie
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"Maggie" - Stephen Crane
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Identify the work with the following character: Nellie
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"Maggie" - Stephen Crane
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Identify the work with the following character: Pete
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"Maggie" - Stephen Crane
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Identify the work with the following character: Sarty Snopes
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"Barn Burning" - William Faulkner
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Identify the work with the following character: Abner Snopes
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"Barn Burning" - William Faulkner
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Identify the work with the following character: De Spain
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"Barn Burning" - William Faulkner
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Identify the work with the following character: May Bartrum
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"The Beast In The Jungle" - Henry James
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Identify the work with the following character: John Marcher
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"The Beast in the Jungle" - Henry James
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Identify the work with the following character: Charlie Wales
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"Babylon Revisited" - F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Identify the work with the following character: Honoria Wales
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"Babylon Revisited" - F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Identify the work with the following character: Helen Wales
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"Babylon Revisisted" - F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Identify the work with the following character: Marion Peters
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"Babylon Revisited" - F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Identify the work with the following character: Lincoln Peters
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"Babylon Revisited" - F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Identify the work with the following character: Lorraine and Duncan
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"Babylon Revisited" - F. Stott Fitzgerald
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