American Literature II Final

Ezra Pounds' modernism mantra was

"Make It New"

"Fever 103" by Sylvia Plath focuses on

A hallucinogenic state of high fever

Welty's "A Worn Path" is an example of a hero's journey. A hero's journey involves

A hero that is changed by story's end

Which description most adequately captures the focus of Hurston's work?

A proud depiction of race and feminism

What word or phrase is used to describe how Louisa felt after her engagement is called off?

A queen

What would best describe the relationship between Della and Sykes in "Sweat" by Zora Neale Hurston?

Abusive

Christ is symboled for

African Americans who unjustly suffered

Which definition best fits the term simulacra?

An often inferior representative image devoid of the substance of the original

What is the tone of the "Christ in Alabama by Langston Hughes?

Angry

What is the speaker's attitude about the decision he made in Williams' "This is Just to Say"?

Apologetic but pleased

What divides the first and second half of American literary history?

Civil War

Writers of the Southern Renaissance (Second Wave), as well as their contemporaries-- the Postmodernists, rebelled against

Conformity

Phoenix imagines seeing a small boy with a cake. This is one of the first clues that she suffers from

Dementia

What does the grey hair found on the pillow next to Homer's corpse suggest?

Emily poisoned Homer years ago and slept with his corpse.

"The Jazz Age" of wealth and frivolity were captured by which Modernist writer?

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Who was NOT a writer of the Harlem Renaissance?

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Free will plays a major role for the characters in works of Naturalism.

False

High Modernism is a form of Modernism poetry that experiments with form.

False

Hurston wrote about race in a political manner.

False

In Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" the grandmother wanted the family to travel to Florida.

False

Judging by her actions, Bailey's mother is the genteel southern lady she believes herself to be.

False

Marianne Moore strictly adhered to rhyme in her poetry.

False

Narrators in Naturalism are often sympathetic to the characters of which they speak.

False

Naturalism works are defined by region, taking place only in the American West.

False

Political critiques were uncommon, and often shunned, in Modernism.

False

The plot of "Mending Wall" centers around two hunters knocking over a wall.

False

Whitman and Dickinson did not use free verse, instead preferring more traditional modes of writing poetry.

False

Whitman strictly adhered to rhyme and meter in his poetry.

False

William Carlos Williams and e.e. cummings revered and utilized traditional forms of poetry.

False

Writers during Realism made emotional appeals to the reader's sentimentality.

False

The completion of what led to more widespread publishing and distribution of American Literary works?

First Transcontinental Railroad

Where is Dexter working when he meets Judy?

Golf course

Which is NOT a theme of "Recitatif" by Toni Morrison?

Greed

From a young age, whose death greatly affected Zora Neale Hurston?

Her mother

William Carlos Williams' poem "The Red Wheelbarrow" is considered to fit into what genre?

Imagism

Eudora Welty was born in

Jackson, Mississippi

Jack London was influenced by Friedrich Nietzsche, Charles Darwin, and

Karl Marx

Choose the best word to describe Southern Gothic Literature

Macabre

What does the tone of the narrator indicate about nature's feelings toward humankind?

Nature is indifferent

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman is best known for her short stories set in what American Region?

New England

Where do Roberta and Twyla from "Recitatif" by Toni Morrison first meet?

Orphanage

What is a major theme of Welty's "A Worn Path"?

Perseverence

How does Sykes plan to kill Delia?

Plant a snake in her washing basket

What word best describes Postmodernism?

Playful and experimental

What did the stranger use to sabotage Daniel Webster?

Quail shot

Of what nature are the symbols Langston Hughes uses?

Religious

Which words does NOT describe Faulkner's style of storytelling?

Romantic

The literary movement that emphasizes the freedom and originality of self expression is called

Romanticism

What realization does Bailey's mother come at to the end of the story?

She is a sinner

Who tells the story of Jim Smiley?

Simon Wheeler

Millay's "I Think I Should Have Loved You Presently" is written in what poetic form?

Sonnet

Which word best describes the narrator's neighbor?

Stubborn

What does the fire symbolize?

Survival

In an ironic twist of fate, who is killed?

Sykes

"Winter Dreams" uses a boat to represent luxury. What type of figurative language does this classify as?

Symbol

Which one of these famous novels was written by Mark Twain?

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The title "Winter Dreams" is a play on what American concept?

The American Dream

The Harlem Renaissance had its roots in the journal of The National Association of American Colored People (NAACP). The journal was called

The Crisis

What does the yellow wallpaper symbolize?

The domestic entrapment of women

How is the plot of decline seen in "To Build a Fire"?

The man sits and waits for death

What makes the neighbors curious about the going ons in Emily's house?

The putrid smell

"Mending Wall" is written in iambic pentameter.

True

"The Jazz Age" was shortly followed by the stock market crash of 1929 along with The Great Depression and the "Dust Bowl", leaving America devastated.

True

A hallmark of local color is the use of regional dialect for its characters.

True

Charlotte Perkins Gilman is known as a groundbreaking feminist and social theorist.

True

Dexter, to his downfall, is fixated on status and wealth.

True

Edna St. Vincent Millay is one of the first American poets to write candidly about female sexuality.

True

F. Scott Fitzgerald's most famous novel is "The Great Gatsby".

True

Hughes wrote both pridefully and politically about the experience of working class African Americans.

True

Jack London does not name the main character to further add to the idea that humankind is insignificant.

True

Langston Hughes, one of the most prolific writers of the Harlem Renaissance, aimed to bring light experiences to African Americans in a way no other writer has.

True

Literature across the nation was largely influenced by southern writers and professors of literature.

True

Local Color and Regionalism led to the emergence of Realism.

True

Many Naturalism writers, influenced by Darwin, consider humankind as part of the evolutionary landscape; therefore, they portray the human in animal terms.

True

Many of Faulkner's novels relied on multiple narrators, which was common in Modernism.

True

Marianne Moore's "Poetry" forgoes the song-like quality of Whitman and Dickinson in favor of a rhythm that more closely resembles spoken word.

True

Marianne Moore's "Poetry" is composed of a monologue.

True

Mark Twain is one of the earliest experimenters of metafiction.

True

Millay's "I Think I Should Have Loved You Presently" explores female desire absent of romantic love and commitment.

True

Mississippi native William Faulkner is the most important figure in the southern renaissance.

True

Modernism sought to reinvent the world.

True

Naturalists, generally, believe idealistic concepts like justice and morality are humankind's feeble attempt to elevate him/herself above other animals.

True

Postmodernism is a term used to describe works of art created in the decade following the 1950s

True

Postmodernism provides a more diverse depiction of American life and American literature than its predecessors.

True

Regionalism is often used to describe works of the late nineteenth century written by women.

True

Sylvia Plath committed suicide before becoming widely celebrated for her poetry.

True

The Harlem Renaissance is defined as a period of cultural activity by African American artists that began in Harlem, a New York City neighborhood in northern Manhattan, in the 1920s.

True

The Modernism Period led to the birth of the American playwright.

True

The decade and a half following the Second World War is often called the age of conformity.

True

The first wave of the Southern Renaissance invigorated literature in the south, rejecting the false veneer of southern culture and probing the reality of life in the region.

True

The influence of the Harlem Renaissance can be seen in the jazz, blues, Motown, rap, and hip hop that we know today.

True

The speaker believes the wall he is mending is unnecessary.

True

Theodore Roethke masterfully crafted contrasting images in his poetry.

True

Toni Morrison was the first African American to win a Nobel Prize for literature.

True

Welty's writing focuses on themes revolving around problems of the post-Reconstruction South.

True

Whitman's work celebrated the common person.

True

William Carlos Williams experimented with simplicity in his poetry.

True

e.e. cummings is known for his experimentation with punctuation and capitalization.

True

e.e. cummings uses longer spaces when the balloon man is mentioned to slow the pace of the poem.

True

Industrialization led to a great change in the nation.

Ture

Which word best describes Louisa's interactions with Joe?

Uncomfortable

In Fitzgerald's "Winter Dreams" what historical event prevents Dexter from selling his business and moving to New York?

WWI

The biggest driver to modernism was

WWI

Allen Ginsberg's "Supermarket in California" is a comparison of his generation to that of

Walt Whitman

Which poet wrote in Low Modernism?

William Carlos Williams

One of the most prolific writers of the southern renaissance, who one the Nobel Prize for literature in 1949, was

William Faulkner

What motif does Fitzgerald use to foreshadow the unhappiness Dexter will experience in adulthood?

Winter

Faulkner's fictional setting is called

Yoknapatawpha

Freeman's work can best be described as

a redefinition of women in the domestic sphere

The supermarket in Ginsberg's "Supermarket in California" is an extended metaphor for

america

Twain's jokes were often at the expense of

an outsider

Dickinson often wrote about themes of

death

Writers of Local Color, Regionalism, and Realism intended to

depart from British literary customs

Mark Twain was known for his use of regional humor, satire, and

dialect

Characters within Local Color, Regionalism, and Realism works can best be described as

down to earth

The sub-genre of southern literature called the southern grotesque deals specifically with

extreme violence and deviance

Toni Morrison combines ________ and _________ in her style of writing.

folklore and postmodernism

When compared to Realism, Naturalism tends to be more

grim and provocative

Local color is often meant to be

humerous

In Naturalism, nature is portrayed as

indifferent and hostile

According to Naturalism writers, humankind is

insignificant

Marianne Moore writing a poem about disliking poetry is an example of

irony

Flannery O'Connor and her father both suffered from (and consequently died of)

lupus

F. Scott Fitzgerald primarily wrote about unattainable love, individual identity, and

money

Characters in Naturalism are often

not given names

Regionalism is set apart from Realism and Local Color due to its use of

one main character's viewpoint

Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" is an example of

political realism

Allen Ginsberg's "Supermarket in California" is a critique of

post war America

A common motif during the first wave of the southern renaissance includes

racial inequality

One common theme in her writing that was influenced by her upbringing is

religion

Free verse is a type of poetry that lacks

rhyme and meter

Postmodernism allowed room for sub-genres such as ________ to emerge.

science fiction

During the Realism movement, American writers wrote about

social issues

Flannery O'Connor, a native of Savannah, Georgia, is famous for her _______ writing.

southern gothic

A common theme in Jack London's writing is

struggle

This period of American history was filled with social unrest due to ________ and ________, among other issues.

the Cold War and Jim Crow laws

"To Build a Fire" is set where

the Yukon

The theme of "Mending Wall" is

the annual cycle of decay and reconstruction

Robert Frost's poems reflected

the changing cultural landscape of America

The main characters of literary works during Realism were often

the common man

"My Papa's Waltz" centers around

the conflicting and abusive relationship between a father and son

Naturalism writers often employ the plot of decline, which involves

the steady decline of a character

Why must Phoenix make the long trip to town?

to get medicine for her grandson

During the early years of the 20th century. the U.S.'s largely agrarian society began to move

to urban areas

Toni Morrison deliberately conceals the race of "Recitatif"'s two main characters.

true

Metafiction involves

writing a story within a story