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Literature
11th Grade
10/25/2011

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The 18th century was dominated by ____. It was known as the age of ____or_____.
Definition
logic; reason or classcism
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Age of reason emphasizes what four things?
Definition
rationality, sytems of order, mankind as a whole, and order
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When do romantic elements first start to appear? Where?
Definition
in germany in the late 1760s
Term
_____means storm and stress and is all about extremes of emotion in response to cold rationalism
Definition
sturm und drang
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Romanticism arrives through _____and lyrical ballads published in 1792 by what two authors?
Definition
gothic novels, lyrical ballads, wordsworth and coleridge
Term
Romanticism becomes firmly established in what years? It blossoms through ___, ____, and _____.
Definition
1820s; art, literautre, and music
Term
What are six characteristics of romanticism?
Definition
imiagination, intuition, individuality, nature, emotion, the past
Term
IMagination celebrates ____and _____.
Definition
creativity and the surreal
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Imagination is also the source of ____and_____.
Definition
artistic vision and creativity
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What is intution?
Definition
feeling and instinct over logic and scientific observation
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_____emphasizes the diginity, worth, and possiblities of each man or woman
Definition
individuality
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What are two examples of authors that write about the past?
Definition
washington irving and james fenimore cooper
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What are the three subranches of romanticism?
Definition
sentimentalism, gothic, transcendentalism
Term
Describe sentimentalism.
Definition
the writer wants to evoke an emotional resoponse in the reader
Term
Describe gothic.
Definition
writer wants to frighten the reader
Term
Describe transcendentalism.
Definition
writer wants to open the reader's eyes to nature
Term
Where does the term, gothic come from?
Definition
medieval architechture
Term
What was the first gothic novel? When?
Definition
the castle of otranto; 1764
Term
Overtime what happens to gothic?
Definition
it evolves into a cliche and parody
Term
What are ffive gothic tropes?
Definition
setting, character types, the supernatural, pyschology, darkness and death
Term
What are some examples of gothic settings?
Definition
dark corners, eerie atmosphere
Term
What are some common settings in gothic?
Definition
castles, haunted houses, barren landscapes,
Term
What are some common character types?
Definition
tyrants, villains, monsters, devils
Term
Gothic starts as a _____but eventually moves to america.
Definition
european movement
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Southern writers often focus on _____through gothic tropes.
Definition
the past
Term
Southern gothic emphasizes the _____.
Definition
grotesque
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Southern gothic supports what type of characters?
Definition
off kilter characters--freaks, outsiders
Term
What is a common setting for southern gothic?
Definition
small southern towns
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Result in southern gothic is often _____and/or ____.
Definition
violence, imprisonment
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Gothic and horror manifest the traditional battle between ____and____.
Definition
good and evil
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Gothic and horror demand what?
Definition
inspection of what we fear
Term
What three things do gothic novels ask to question about ourselves?
Definition
our beliefs, our perceptions, our sanity
Term
What are two gothic elements in the devil and tom walker?
Definition
deals with nature, deals with the past
Term
____is the feelng created by a work of literature.
Definition
mood
Term
____is the writer's attitude to subject, characters, etc.
Definition
tone
Term
What are four moods for the fall of the house of usher?
Definition
dark, cramped, ominous, uncanny
Term
What is the first place in the house of usher that the author uses to enhance a gothic mood?
Definition
setting
Term
What is the significance of the tarn in the fall of the house of usher?
Definition
in the pond, he sees the reflection of the house
Term
What is a doppelganger?
Definition
a double---negative projection of whatever it is a double to
Term
What is pychomachia?
Definition
angel and devil on shoulder
Term
What are two examples of doppelgangers in the fall of the house of usher?
Definition
the house, the brother and sister (roderick and madeline)
Term
What does the house of usher represent?
Definition
the actual house and the usher family tree
Term
What is Roderick's illness?
Definition
all senses are overly sensitive and this fills him with terror
Term
Describe madeline's illness.
Definition
she is wasting away--losing strength, energy, etc.
Term
How are roderick and madeline's illness different? how are they similar?
Definition
roderick's illness represents more of a mental deterioration, madeline's illness represents more of a physical deterioration; they are similar because they are both based on pyschomachia
Term
What is rodderick painting?
Definition
a tomb
Term
Why do they entomb madeline in the house before they bury her?
Definition
they fear someone will dig her up if they bury her
Term
How does madeline look when she is "dead"?
Definition
alive
Term
IN the fall of the house of usher, when is the bounadry between fantasy and reality broken?
Definition
when he hears the sound of cracking and ripping which is really madeline escaping her grave
Term
What are two themes in the fall of the house of usher?
Definition
keeping something hidden you can't keep hidden, fantasy vs. reality--when you can't distinguish between the two you have reached insanity
Term
In the nineteen century, society is ______.
Definition
patriarchial
Term
In the 1820s-1880s, women are encouraged to ____.
Definition
stay inside the home
Term
What are the ultimate goals for women in the nineteenth century?
Definition
marriage and motherhood
Term
Barbara wrote a story called _____about womanhood.
Definition
american quarterly
Term
What are the four key virtues relating to women?
Definition
religious piety, moral purity, submissiveness, domesticity
Term
Women are supposed to become the new EVe. What does this mean?
Definition
raise children to become good christians
Term
Dealing with moral piety, women are supposed to maintain ____against wilder passions of men.
Definition
chastisity
Term
If a woman loses chastisty, what is this saying?
Definition
she loses status a true woman
Term
If women are to rebel against men, what is that saying?
Definition
they are rebelling against god too
Term
Women's clothing emphasizes_____ as they wear clothing that makes it difficult to move around.
Definition
passivity
Term
Explain domesticity
Definition
home is where the heart is
Term
In the yellow wallpaper, what does the woman want to do? why can't she?
Definition
write but her husband won't let her
Term
What is arguably the first mass meeting for woman's rights in america?
Definition
1848 seneca falls convention
Term
Who is Marg?
Definition
nanny
Term
What is post partum depression?
Definition
feeling of unworth, related to feeling of hatred for children
Term
JOhn becomes ar representation for partriarchy as he is a _____and ____. He treats his wife like a ______.
Definition
doctor and husband; child
Term
In the yellow wallpaper, the narrator offers ____to cure the woman. But what does she think will cure her?
Definition
bedrest, work
Term
In the yellow wallpaper, what does the rub on the floor represent?
Definition
her shoulder
Term
Who is the woman she sees in the wallpaper? This represents a ____.
Definition
herself; doppelganger
Term
What is HP lovecraft's real name?
Definition
howard phillips lovecraft
Term
Where and when was HP lovecraft born?
Definition
providence, rhode island-1890
Term
Lovecraft's father was troubled by ____and _____. He died due to _____.
Definition
hallucinations, erratic behavior; advanced syphillis
Term
What troubled lovecraft during his lifetime?
Definition
nervous breakdowns
Term
What was the relationship to HP and his grandfather? What was his grandfather's name?
Definition
very close--his grandfather encouraged howard to read; whipple phillips
Term
How far did HP get in school?
Definition
never graduated from high school
Term
Lovecraft became an anglophile--what is thsi?
Definition
not british, but loves british things
Term
Lovecraft planned on going to ___univeristy, why didn't he?
Definition
brown, didn't go because of his nervous breakdown in highschool
Term
In 1914, HP begins publishing and gets involved in what organization?
Definition
united amateur press association
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Lovecraft eventually started publisihing regularly in _____, but he was never financially successful.
Definition
weird tales
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At one point, love craft became so poor that he ______.
Definition
ate one meal a day, 30 cents a day
Term
What is lovecraft best remembered for?
Definition
establishing cthulhu mythos
Term
How were lovecraft's writings similar to poe's?
Definition
they both focus on the interior of the soul
Term
HOw and when did Lovecraft die?
Definition
dies of intestinal cancer in 1937
Term
When was lovecraft's first collection published?
Definition
1939
Term
Who is the narrator in the outsider?
Definition
dead monster returning from death
Term
What is the plot of the outsider?
Definition
the narrator is in a place where he can't escape until he climbs out of a twoer and after he climbs out he emerges on land; he walks into a party and everyones leaves and he doesn't know why and then he sees something--a mirror
Term
The zombie archetype dates back to _______.
Definition
the epic of gilgamesh
Term
Where does the word zombie come from?
Definition
haitian voodoo "zombi"--a spirit of the dead under the control of a voodoo priest
Term
When was the zombie archetype reinvented?
Definition
in George Romero's 1968 movie ---Night of the living dead about the vietnam war
Term
What is the mood in long distance call?
Definition
mysterious
Term
What are some gothic tropes in long distance call?
Definition
the past, setting=stormy night, implied illness--crippled legs
Term
What are some similarites between long distance call and the yellow wallpaper?
Definition
female protagonist, ill protagonist, insanity quesetionable, isolated protagonists
Term
What are some similarites between long distance call and the yellow wallpaper?
Definition
female protagonist, ill protagonist, insanity quesetionable, isolated protagonists
Term
What is the source of fear in long distance call that would not have been present 50 years ago?
Definition
telephone
Term
What are five other examples of stories where technology influences fear?
Definition
alien technology, the matrix, the terminator, minority report, blade runner
Term
What are three ways in which southern gothic is unique to american literautre?
Definition
relies on ironic or unusal events to guide the plot, supernatural superseded by realism more often than not, traditions and customs
Term
Southern gothic uses tropes and characteristics of the gothic not just for suspense, but to_____.
Definition
critique and explore social and cultural values of the american south
Term
Southern gothic takes classic gothic archetypes such as the monster and turns them into ____.
Definition
american southerners
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Southern gothic uses the past a source of_____.
Definition
nostalgia
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A grotesque character may possess an exaggerated personality trait or characteristic for the purpose of eliciting both _____and _____in the reader.
Definition
empathy and disgust
Term
What are two other definiing features of southern gothic?
Definition
class distinction or cast off kilter characters
Term
What are five other features of southern gothic?
Definition
frekisheness, outsiders, imprisonment, violence, sense of place
Term
In a Good Man is hard to find, the misfit doesn't have _____but when the granmother speaks to him it is a _____.
Definition
faith; transcending moment
Term
Who kills the grandmother in a good man is hard to find?
Definition
the misfit
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What is really in the walls that Charlies hears that he think in rats in jerusalem's lot?
Definition
dead ancestors
Term
Jerusalem's lot is an _____writing.
Definition
epistlatory
Term
What does epistlatory mean?
Definition
story told through series of letters
Term
What are the four nicknames for the devil in the devil and tom walker?
Definition
old scratch, wild huntsman, black miner, and black woodman
Term
What is the name of the girl who falls down the stairs and dies at Chapelwaite?
Definition
marcella
Term
How does calvin die in jerusalem's lot?
Definition
he is killed by the worm
Term
What does de vermis mystery mean?
Definition
mystery of the worm
Term
What is the sculputure in the raven?
Definition
palas
Term
What happens to the raven at the end of the poem?
Definition
it stays there
Term
What does the narrator hate most about he wallpaper?
Definition
the color
Term
What deformed animal was found before Charles went to jerusalem's lot?
Definition
two headed cow
Term
Professor Baglioni was a professor of ____at the university.
Definition
medicine
Term
What was the first thing that giovanni saw beatrice kill?
Definition
the shrub
Term
What was the name of the maid in rappaccini's daughter?
Definition
lisabetta
Term
How did Charles kill himself?
Definition
he hung himself
Term
What is tom walker doing in the beginning of the story?
Definition
taking a shortcut through the woods
Term
Who is the housekeeper in the fall of the house of usher?
Definition
jenny
Term
Where does the monster end up?
Definition
the graveyard
Term
In the tell tale heart, what drives the housekeeper to turn himself in?
Definition
the eye
Term
What is the devil guarding?
Definition
treasure of kid, the pirate
Term
What causes the housekeeper to turn himself in?
Definition
he hears the heart beating
Term
What is the saying underneath the steeple on the map of jerusalem's lot?
Definition
the worm that doth corrupt
Term
What are three theories about what happened to madeline in the fall of the house of useher?
Definition
she has been raped by and/or slept with her borther, she has been turned into a vampire, she has been buried alive
Term
What is the name of the story that the narrator reads to rodderick?
Definition
the mad trist
Term
What are three doppelgangers in the fall of the house of usher?
Definition
the house and the reflection of the house, madeline and rodderick, the house and the family tree
Term
Where is giovanni going to school?
Definition
university of padua
Term
What color are the large poision flowers that rappaccini's daughter cultivates?
Definition
purple
Term
What is the name of rappaccini's daughter?
Definition
beatrice
Term
Who wrote the raven?
Definition
edgar allan poe
Term
who wrote the devil and tom walker?
Definition
washington irving
Term
who wrote rappaccini's daughter?
Definition
nathaniel hawthorne
Term
Who wrote the yellow wallpaper?
Definition
charlotte perkins gilman
Term
Who wrote the chancing role of womanhood?
Definition
deborah thomas
Term
Who wrote the outsider?
Definition
h.p. lovecraft
Term
Who wrote long distance call?
Definition
richard matheson
Term
Who wrote a good man is hard to find?
Definition
flannery o'connor
Term
who wrote jerusalem's lot?
Definition
stephen king
Term
What are four poetic elements used in the raven?
Definition
internal rhyme, assonance, repition, alliteration
Term
What month is the raven set?
Definition
decemeber
Term
Who is the maiden in the raven?
Definition
lenore
Term
What is nepenthe?
Definition
sleeping drug
Term
What season is the fall of the house of usher set?
Definition
autumn
Term
Rodderick is a _____.
Definition
hypochondriac
Term
Roderick painted a painting of what?
Definition
a tomb
Term
What is the name of the poem mentioned in the fall of the house of usher?
Definition
the haunted palce
Term
Who wrote the mad trist?
Definition
sir launcelot canning
Term
Who is the hero of trist?
Definition
ethelred
Term
Where and when was Poe born? Who were his parents?
Definition
1809 in Boston; david and elizabeth arnold hopkins poe
Term
When does Poe die?
Definition
1849
Term
Most critics agree that Poe was the real orginator of the detective fiction genre through his three _____short storeies.
Definition
auguste dupin
Term
What does find in the forest?
Definition
a cloven skull with an Indian tomahawk buried deep in it
Term
Tom discovered the stranger was neither ____nor _____.
Definition
negro nor indian
Term
Where is the devil and tom walker set?
Definition
new england, 1700s
Term
What happened to pirate Kidd?
Definition
he is hanged
Term
What two things is tom walker well known for?
Definition
his horse and wife
Term
Who watches over the treasure in the devil and tom walker?
Definition
the devil
Term
Where does Tom meet the devil?
Definition
at an indian fort
Term
Why does Tom think his wife is dead?
Definition
her apron is filled with a liver and a heart
Term
At first the devil bargains with Tom by trying to get him to become a ______, Tom declines but he eventually agrees to be a _____.
Definition
slave trader, userer
Term
The devil represents people as _____.
Definition
trees
Term
Why Tom's wife seek the devil?
Definition
she wants money
Term
What is the season of the yellow wallpaper?
Definition
summer
Term
The narrator of the yellow wallpaper thinks the bedroom is similar to a _____.
Definition
nursery for young children
Term
Who is Jennie in the yellow wallpaper?
Definition
john's sister, housekeeper, nurse
Term
JOhn threatens to send his wife to ______.
Definition
weir mitchell
Term
At the end of the yellow wallpaper, who does the narrator think is the trapped woman?
Definition
herself
Term
What happens to John at the end of the story?
Definition
he faints
Term
The yellow wallpaper was first released in ______in what year?
Definition
new england magazine; 1891
Term
What were the central tenets of the cult of true womanhood?
Definition
cult of domesticity and cult of purity
Term
The mysterious man in the outsider has been living in a _____.
Definition
castle
Term
The narrator gets his knowledge of the outside of the world from _____.
Definition
antique books
Term
The narrator of the outsider finds a _____at the end of the staircase.
Definition
trapdoor
Term
Where and when was Richard Burton matheson born?
Definition
allendale, New jersey in 1926
Term
What is the name of the protagonist in long distance call? What is the name of the nurse? The operator?
Definition
mrs. keene, nurse phillips, miss finch
Term
at the end of long distance call, mrs. keene discovers the calls are coming from ______.
Definition
the cemetery
Term
Where and when is jerusalem's lot set?
Definition
preacher's corners, maine ---1850
Term
Charles Boone arrives in what town? Who's house?
Definition
chapelwaite, charles' cousin's house--stephen
Term
What is teh name of the nearby town in jerusalem's lot?
Definition
preachers corners
Term
At Jerusalem's lot, Calvin and Charles find a parody of ______in the church.
Definition
madonna and child
Term
What two ancestors does calvin find in the walls?
Definition
marciella and randolph boone
Term
Who founded jerusalem's lot?
Definition
james boone
Term
What do calvin and charles find on top of de vermis mysteris when they return to jerusalem's lot?
Definition
a lamb
Term
How doe Charles and Calvin die?
Definition
charles commits suicide; calvin is eaten by the worm
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