ENV 210 from Test 2 to Final
"Theme for English B"
"Being me, it will not be white. But it will be a part of you, instructor. You are white - yet a part of me, as I am a part of you. That's American." (quote from)
"Araby"; simile
"But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires." (quote from, meaning?)
"An Outpost of Progress"
"But the contact with pure unmitigated savagery, with primitive nature and primitive man, brings sudden and profound trouble into the heart." (quote from)
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
"Do I dare disturb the universe/" (quote from)
first-person
"Dulce et Decorum Est" point of view?
"After Apple-Picking"; paradox
"For I have had too much/Of apple-picking: I am overtired/Of the great harvest I myself desired" (quote from, meaning?)
"Dulce et Decorum Est"; irony
"Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! - An ecstacy of fumbling Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time..." (quote from, meaning?)
"Araby"; epiphany
"Gazing up into darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger" (quote form, meaning)
"Dulce et Decorum Est"
"My friend, you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory..." (quote from)
"Odour of Chrysanthemums"; foreshadowing
"Never mind. They'll bring him when he does come—like a log." She meant there would be no scene. "And he may sleep on the floor till he wakes himself. I know he'll not go to work tomorrow after this!" (quote from, meaning?)
"Odour of Chrysanthemums"
"No," she said, "not to me. It was chrysanthemums when I married him, and chrysanthemums when you were born, and the first time they ever brought him home drunk, he'd got brown chrysanthemums in his button-hole." (quote from)
"Araby"; personification
"North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers' School set free. An uninhabited house of two stories stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbors in a square ground. The houses gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces" (quote from, meaning?)
"The lottery"
"Old Man Warner snorted. 'pack of crazy fools,' he said. 'Listening to the young folks, nothing's good enough for them.....There's always been a lottery." (quote from)
"After Apple-Picking"
"One can see what will trouble/This sleep of mine, whatever sleep it is./Were he not gone,/The woodchuck could say whether it's like his/Long sleep, as I desire its coming on,/Or just some human sleep." (quote from)
"Paul's Case"; determinism
"Paul wondered whether he were destined always to shiver in the black night outside, looking up at it." (quote from, meaning?)
"A Rose for Emily"
"See General Sartoris. (Had been dead almost ten year)...." (quote from)
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
"Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?" (quote from)
"Odour of Chrysanthemums"
"She knew she submitted to life, which was her immediate master. But from death, her ultimate master, she winced with fear and shame." (quote from)
"The Black Walnut Tree"
"So the black walnut tree swings though another year of sun and leaping winds, of leaves and bounding fruit, and, month after month, the whip-crack of the mortgage" (quote from)
"An Outpost of Progress"
"The river seemed to come from nowhere and flow nowhither. It flowed through a void. Out of that void, at times, came canoes, and men with spears in their hands would suddenly crowd the yard of the station."
"Araby"
"The syllables of the word Araby were called to me through the silence in which my soul luxuriated and cast an Eastern enchantment over me." (quote from)
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"; cat
"The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes,/The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window panes......." (quote from, fog compared to what?)
"An Outpost of Progress", imperialism
"Then he burst out laughing, slapped Kayerts on the back and shouted, "We shall let life run easily here! Just sit still and gather in the ivory those savages will bring. This country has its good points, after all!" They both laughed loudly while Carlier thought: "That poor Kayerts; he is so fat and unhealthy. It would be awful if I had to bury him here. He is a man I respect." (quote from, meaning?)
"An Outpost of Progress"
"Then many more shrieks, rapid and piercing, like the yells of some exasperated and ruthless creature, rent the air. Progress was calling to Kayerts from the river. Progress and civilization and all the virtues. Society was calling to its accomplished child to come, to be taken care of, to be instructed, to be judged, to be condemned; it called him to return to that rubbish heap from which he had wandered away, so that justice could be done"
"Spring and All"; comparison of birth to nature
"They enter the new world naked, cold, uncertain of all...." (quote from, meaning)
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"; literary illusion to John the Baptist
"Though I have seen my head brought in upon a platter, I am no prophet - and here's no great matter" (quote from, meaning)
"A Rose for Emily"; synecdoche
"Three gray-beards and one younger man, a member of the rising generation" (quote from, example of?)
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
"To lead you to an overwhelming question.../Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?'..." (quote from)
"Odour of Chrysanthemums"; finality of death
"When they arose, saw him lying in the naïve dignity of death, the women stood arrested in fear and respect." (quote from, meaning)
"Paul's Case"
"Yet he rather liked to hear these legends o the iron kings, that were told and retold on Sundays and holidays.......and he was interested in the triumphs of these cash boys who had become famous, though he had no mind for the cash-boy stage."
"The Road not Taken"; ambiguity
"Yet knowing how way leads on to way,/I doubted if I should ever come back." (quote form, meaning?)
"The lottery"
"clean forgot what say it was" (quote from)
"anyone lived in a pretty how town"
"one day anyone died I guess (and no-one stooped to kiss his face) busy folk buried hem side by side little by little and was by was" (quote from)
"anyone lived in a pretty how town"
"spring, summer, autumn, winter" (quote from)
"anyone lived in a pretty how town"
"up so floating with many bells down" (quote from)
"Odour of Chrysanthemums"
"—She was grateful to death, which restored the truth. And she knew she was not dead." (quote from)
suggestion rather than enumeration
How did Willa Cather describe her writing style?
destructive results of colonization and imperialism
How does Conrad view Western Civilization in "An Outpost of Progress"?
Homer
In "A Rose for Emily," who is her lover that she kills?
day and seasons
In "After Apple-Picking," what 2 things are ending?
poison gas
In "Dulce et Decorum Est," when is imagery used?
their marriage
In "Odour of Chrysanthemums," what does the Chrysanthemum represent?
time
In "Odour of Chrysanthemums," what is used as a device for adding intensity to the story?
fictional Jefferson, Mississippi
Setting of "A Rose for Emily"?
African Jungle
Setting of "An Outpost of Progress"?
Dublin
Setting of "Araby"?
Pittsburg -> New York
Setting of "Paul's Case"?
traditional verse with untraditional subject
Style of "Richard Cory"?
satirical funeral elegy
Style of "The Unknown Citizen"?
1. red carnation 2. Cordelia St 3. Trains
Symbols used in "Paul's case?
dangers of skepticism and corruption
What was Conrad known for showing in his characters?
moral traditions
What was D.H. Lawrence known for challenging?
experimentation with language (forms and punctuation)
What was E.E. Cummings known for in his writings?
rural life and colloquial dialects
What was Robert Frost's style known for?
Naturalism
What was Willa Cather's early career influenced by (later rejected)?
money (earned or entitled)
What was a major factor in "Paul's Case"?
"use the language of common speech" and "Employ always the exact word"
What was the purpose of Imagism?
E.E. Cummings
author of "anyone lived in a pretty how town""
secularism
belief that is unaware of Christian truths
Paul Laurence Dunbar
first modern black poet to use black dialect (and achieve popularity?
nihilism
idea involving no value/meaning to life at all, resulting in extreme skepticism
modernism
idea that rejects Victorian and Realistic methods and ideologies; emphasis on industrial-era social and political issues
pluralism
inclusion of multiple viewpoints; no absolutes
modernism
overall term for the first half of the Twentieth Century (British and America)
open form
poem in which there is no strict patter of meter and rhyme
Billy Collins
poet Laureate of the US from 2001-2002?
anyone, no one
puns used in "anyone lived in a pretty how town"?
the bazaar
symbol used in "Araby"
questioning those who blindly follow traditions
theme of "The Lottery"?
1. Darwinism 2. Marxism 3. Freudianism 4. Secularism 5. Existentialism 6. Nihilism 7. Pluralism
worldviews of the Twentieth century (7)
William Carlos Williams
What 20th Century author was involved with the Imagist movement?
history
What are the roots a symbol of in "The Black Walnut Tree"?
puns, backwards sentence structure
What devices are used in "anyone lived in a pretty how town"?
Harlem Renaissance
What era is Billy Collins from?
Harlem Renaissance
What era is E.E. Cummings from"?
Harlem Renaissance
What era is Shirley Jackson from?
20th Century
What era is Willa Cather from?
20th Century
What era lacked true meaning in their literature?
20th Century
What era rejected traditional literary styles?
Harlem Renaissance
What era resulted from the Great Migration and had one of the largest black communities in the world (NY); explosion of black art, music, and lit
20th Century
What era used free forms?
20th Century
What era was D.H. Lawrence from?
20th Century
What era was Edwin Arlington Robison from?
20th Century
What era was James Joyce from?
20th Century
What era was Joseph Conrad from?
Harlem Renaissance
What era was Langston Hughes from?
Harlem Renaissance
What era was Mary Oliver from?
20th Century
What era was Paul Laurence Dunbar from?
20th Century
What era was Robert Frost from?
20th Century
What era was T.S. Eliot from?
20th Century
What era was W.H. Auden from?
20th Century
What era was Wilfred Owen from?
20th Century
What era was William Carlos Williams from?
Harlem Renaissance
What era was William Faulkner from?
20th Century
What era was cynical and pessimistic?
20th Century
What era was highly experimental?
Twentieth Century (modernism)
What era were the World Wars associated with?
becoming apart of the American system
What is "The Unknown Citizen" written about?
portrait poems
What is Edwin Arlington Robison known for?
"The Road not Taken"
What is Robert Frost's most famous poem?
preserving the past
What is keeping the tree a metaphor of in "The Black Walnut Tree"?
no mater what he does, he will always experience disappointment
What is the boy's epiphany in "Araby"?
keeping the tree
What is the decision made in "The Black Walnut Tree"?
irony
What is the main device used in "The Lottery"?
individualism vs societ
What is the satire in "anyone lived in a pretty how town"?
Does he choose the correct road?
What is the theme of the Last stanza in "The Road not Taken"?
family
What is the tree a symbol for in "The Black Walnut Tree"?
irony (details but still unknown)
What literary device is used in "The Unknown Citizen"?
puns, symbols, and imagery
What literary devices can be seen in "Richard Cory"?
irony
What major device is used in "Dulce et Decorum Est"?
medical doctor
What other profession was William Carlos Williams?
finality of death; reality of broken hoes
What other things can be seen in "Odour of Chrysanthemums"? (2)
1. dealing with loss 2. community vs isolation
What other topics are discussed in "A Rose for Emily"?
fall
What season is it in "The Road not Taken"?
stream of consciousness
What style is The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" written in?
internal ambiguous wording and existential undertones
What style is seen in "The Road not Taken"?
unconventional style
What style type of writing was James Joyce known for?
her hair greying
What symbolism is used in "A Rose for Emily"?
"Age of Anxiety"
What term did W.H. Auden coin?
alienation, hypocrisy, and deception
What topics are covered in We Wear the Mask"? (3)
Rondeau
What type of poem was "We Wear the Mask"?
dramatic monologue
What type of poetry is The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"?
English
What type of writer is T.S. Eliot?
English
What type of writer was D.H. Lawrence?
American
What type of writer was Edwin Arlington Robison?
English
What type of writer was James Joyce?
English
What type of writer was Joseph Conrad?
American
What type of writer was Robert Frost?
English
What type of writer was W.H. Auden?
English
What type of writer was Wilfred Owen?
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
"...I have measured out my life with coffee spoons." (quote from)
"A Rose for Emily"
"A tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation." (quote from)
"The lottery"
"All right folks, lets finish quickly" (quote from)
"The Lanyard"
"And here, I wish to say to her now, is a smaller gift - not the worn truth that you can never repay your mother, ....that this useless, worthless thing I wove...." (quote from)
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"; procrastination
"And indeed there will be time/For the yellow smoke that slides along the street" (quote from, meaning?)
"Odour of Chrysanthemums"
"And now she saw, and turned silent in seeing. For she had been wrong. She had said he was something he was not; she had felt familiar with him." (quote from)
"Theme for English B"
"As I learn from you, I guess you learn from me - although you're older - and white- and somewhat more free." (quote from)
"Paul's Case"
"He rose and moved about with a painful effort, succumbing now and again to attacks of nausea. It was old depression exaggerated; all the world had become Cordelia Street."
"Araby"
"Her image accompanied me even in places the most hostile to romance. On Saturday evenings when my aunt went marketing I had to go to carry some of the parcels. We walked through the flaring streets, jostled by drunken men and bargaining women, amid the curses of laborers, the shrill litanies of shopboys who stood on guard by the barrels of pigs' cheeks, the nasal chanting of street singers...." (quote from)
"The Lanyard"
"Here is a breathing body and a beating heart, strong legs, bones, and teeth, and two dear eyes to read the world, she whispered," (quote from)
"Paul's Case"
"His teachers felt this afternoon that his whole attitude was symbolized by his shrug and his flippantly red carnation flower, and they fell upon him without mercy, his English teacher leading the pack." (quote from)
"After Apple-Picking"; metaphor
"I cannot rub the strangeness from my sight/I got from looking through a pane of glass/I skimmed this morning from the drinking trough/And held against the world of hoary grass." (quote from, meaning?)
"Araby"; illustration
"I recognized a silence like that which pervades a church after a service" (quote from, meaning?)
"The Road not Taken"
"I should be telling this with a sigh/Somewhere ages and ages hence:/Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,/I took the one less traveled by,/And that has made all the difference." (quote from)
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"; alliteration
"I should have been a pair of ragged claws/Scuttling across the floors of silent seas."(quote from, meaning?)
"Richard Cory"; perception
"In fine, we thought that he was everything/To make us wish that we were in his place." (quote from, meaning?)
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
"In the room the women come and go/Talking of Michelangelo" (quote from)
"Theme for English B"
"It's not easy to know what is true for you or me at twenty-two, my age. But I guess I'm what I feel and see and hear, Harlem, I hear you:" (quote from)
"Spring and All"; personification
"Lifeless in appearance, sluggish/dazed spring approaches --" (quote from, meaning?)
American
What type of writer was Willa Cather?
stanza
A group of lines in a poem
Existentialism
A philosophy based on the idea that people give meaning to their lives through their choices and actions (after WWII) (focus of the twentienth century)
art
After WWI, what did man put his faith in?
American
What type of writer was William Carlos Williams?
E.E. Cummings
American poet of the Harlem Renaissance that was influenced by imagism?
William Faulkner
Author of "A Rose for Emily"?
Robert Frost
Author of "After Apple-Picking"?
Joseph Conrad
Author of "An Outpost of Progress"?
James Joyce
Author of "Araby"?
Wilfred Owen
Author of "Dulce et Decorum Est"?
D.H. Lawrence
Author of "Odour of Chrysanthemums"?
Willa Cather
Author of "Paul's Case"?
Edwin Arlington Robison
Author of "Richard Cory"?
William Carlos Williams
Author of "Spring and All"?
Mary Oliver
Author of "The Black Walnut Tree"?
Billy Collins
Author of "The Lanyard"?
Shirley Jackson
Author of "The Lottery"?
T.S. Eliot
Author of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"?
William Carlos Williams
Author of "The Red Wheelbarrow"?
Robert Frost
Author of "The Road Not Taken"?
W.H. Auden
Author of "The Unknown Citizen"?
Langston Hughes
Author of "Theme for English B"?
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Author of "We Wear the Mask"?
Wilfred Owen
Author of the 20th century that fought in WWI (died before end)?
society and art
Before WWI, what did man put his faith in?
alienation, experimentation
Characteristics of "anyone lived in a pretty how town"?
barbaric ritual vs very quaint down-to-earth little village
Contradiction in "The Lottery"?
Tilbury Town
Made of town of Edwin Arlington Robison?
imagism
Major modernist poetic movement that focused non imagery and aesthetics rather than meaning?
fictional/representative college student
Narrator of "Theme for English B"?
Shirley Jackson
Novelists and short story writer from California and Vermont known for humoristic stories?
Langston Hughes
Primary Harlem Renaissance poet?
American
What type pf writer was Paul Laurence Dunbar?
decline of the Old South
Theme of "A Rose for Emily"?
hard work brings exhaustion
Theme of "After Apple-Picking"?
failed expectations
Theme of "Araby"?
realities of war
Theme of "Dulce et Decorum Est"?
ability of traumatic events to put things into perspective
Theme of "Odour of Chrysanthemums"?
fate determined by heredity and environment
Theme of "Paul's Case"?
perception vs reality
Theme of "Richard Cory"?
struggle of new life
Theme of "Spring and All"?
the importance of preserving a family legacy
Theme of "The Black Walnut Tree"?
repaying sacrificial love
Theme of "The Lanyard"?
significance in experience
Theme of "The Red Wheelbarrow"?
choices, consequences, and regret
Theme of "The Road not Taken"?
understanding other perspectives
Theme of "Theme for English B"?
what society sees vs what we hide
Theme of "We Wear the Mask"?
namelessness of society
Theme of "anyone lived in a pretty how town"?
1. destructive results of colonization and imperialism 2. progress and society 3. paranoia and greed
Themes of "An Outpost of Progress"? (3)
1. Man's inability to live a meaningful existence in the modern world 2. Poking fun (satire) at inability and spinelessness
Themes of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"? (2)
1. alienation of "modern" man 2. disintegration of civilization 3. moral relativism 4. moral lessons
Themes of the 20th Century (4)
1. black culture 2. shift from focus on slavery to more modern problems and issues
Themes of the Harlem Renaissance? (2)
Cordelia St (Pittsburgh)
Where was Paul's home in Paul's case?
Robert Frost
Who is considered to be one of the greatest American poets of the 20th Century?
Walt Whitman (Leaves of Grass)
Who made free verse popular? (what book?)
T.S. Eliot
Who was a major figure in the modernist poetry movement?
Billy Collins
Who was one of America's most loved contemporary poets?
Joseph Conrad
Who was the early British Modern Era novelist?
James Joyce
Who was the greatest Irish Modern Era novelist?
T.S. Eliot
Whose writings are known for its use of language and imagery more than its meaning?
1. Shows what all black American went through 2. Shows what all people experience while hiding pain
Why is "We Wear the Mask" considered a universal poem? (2)
biological determinism
Worldview of Darwinism (20th century)
psychological determinism (economic)
Worldview of Freudianism (20th Century)
political determinism
Worldview of Marxism (20th century)
William Faulkner
Writer known for American Southern Gothic Style?
1. Joseph Conrad 2. Paul Laurence Dunbar 3. Edwin Arlington Robison 4. Willa Cather 5. DH Lawrence 6. Robert Frost 7. William Carlos Williams 8. James Joyce 9. Wilfred Owen 10. T S Eliot 11. W H Auden
Writers of the 20h Century? (11)
1. William Faulkner 2. E.E. Cummings 3. Shirley Jackson 4. Billy Collins 5. Mary Oliver
Writers of the Harlem Renaissance? (5)
Rondeau
a poem style of 15 lines, 3 stanzas with refrain**
refrain
a regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem or song
free verse
verse with no consistent metrical pattern