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Final Exam
World views, authors, stories
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English
11th Grade
05/20/2009

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Classicism
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reason; respect for authority
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Romanticism
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feeling
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Transcendentalism
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individuality; universal soul; interest in Eastern religion
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Realism
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life as it is; regionalism
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Naturalism
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nature is cruel; pessimistic
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Modernism
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non-traditional form; disillusionment with life & society
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Willa Cather
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Wagner Matinee
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Edgar Masters
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Spoon River Anthology
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Bret Hart
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Wild West
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Steven Crane
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Red Badge of Courage
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Sidney Leneer
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Song of the Chattahoochee
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Mark Twain
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Huckleberry Finn; Sam Clemens
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Edna Millay
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Renascence; transcendental themes
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Kate Chopin
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Story of An Hour; early feminist
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Chief Joseph
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Indian leader (DUH); surrendered with dignity
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Jack London
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Socialist, Evolutionist, Naturalist, Professional Jerk
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Edwin RobINson
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BRIDGEd gap between traditionalism & modern styles
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Sherwood Anderson
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Ohioan; Modern Age writer; grotesque characters (Mr. ANDERSON!!)
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Ernest Hemmingway
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spoke for post-WWI generation
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Eudora Welty
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ambiguous
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John Steinbeck
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struggles to keep dignity in confusing world
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John Dos Pasos
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blended fiction & nonfiction
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White
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concise style; Naturalist influence
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William Faulkner
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innovative writer
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Amy Lowell
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leader of imagist movement
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Carl Sandburg
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spirit of industrial America
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Cummings
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individualist poet; unconventional style
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Robert Frost
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New England Pulitzer Prize winner
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Scott Fitzgerald
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Roaring 20's; descriptive & fluid style
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Thurber
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Humorist/Cartoonist
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Wallce Stevens
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Emphasized the importance of a single image
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T.S. Eliot
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disillusionment, then Christianity
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Richard Wright
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black; realistic literature (no uplifting characters)
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Ezra Pound
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influenced poets to experiment
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Will Williams
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captured common images
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H.D.
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emotional images
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Robert E. Lee
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Southern General
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Mary Chestnut
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daughter & wife of SC senators
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Abe Lincoln
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Civil War president
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Walt Whitman
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Transcendentalist; admired Lincoln
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Langston Hughes
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Harlem Renaissance poet
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Zora Hurston
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female Harlem Renaissance writer
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TS Eliot
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used Stream of Consciousness
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Katherine Porter
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Stream of Consciousness; uncertainty & disjointedness
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Paul Dunbar
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1st black American to support himself by writing
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Richard Wright
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black; didn't think literature needed uplifting characters
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Frederick Douglas
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former slave; abolitionist
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