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What poems did Carl Sandberg write?

1) Chicago 2) Fog

What poems did Theodore Rotheke write?

1) Cuttings 2) The Waking

Creative Nonfiction

1) Emerging style of the 50's and 60's 2) Considered "new journalism" in the 60s, with reportage taking into account the viewer of the events, the research as part of the reporting, and the discovery as a narrative of the investigation. 3) Creative nonfiction uses the elements of figurative writing and point-of-view to illuminate the subject matter of the "essay" as it was once understood.

Harlem Renaissance

1) Establishment of African American writers between 1922 (The publication of McKay's Harlem Shadows) and about 1935. 2) Coincided with the "Great Migration" out of the south, a limit on immigration during the world wars, and a need for labor for those wars. 3) Artistic expression in communities of African Americans especially in New York. 4) Ideologies were scattered, but suggested that while writers and artists of that time period were considered a part of the "reawakening," there had always been a culture and art of African American people

What poems did Yusef Komunyakaa write?

1) Facing It 2) Slam, Dunk, and Hook

What poems did Jean Toomer write?

1) Fern 2) Georgia Dusk

What poems did E.E. Cummings write?

1) Grasshopper 2) In Just 3)Buffalo Bill's 4) Somewhere I never Travelled, Gladly Beyond

What poems did Lucille Clifton write?

1) Homage to my hips 2) Wild blessings 3) The Mississippi River empties into the Gulf

Who are the characters in Long Day's Journey into Night?

1) James Tyrone- father 2) Mary Tyrone- mother 3) Edmund- youngest son 4) Jamie Tyrone (aka James Tyrone jr.)- oldest son 5) Cathleen- family maid

What poems did Amy Lowell write?

1) Madonna of the Evening Flowers 2) September, 1918

Alice Walker Everyday Use Characters

1) Mama- Narrator of the Story who is a single mother of two daughters, wears overalls, is big boned and rough hands from years of physical labor work. Also uneducated because she never got the chance to break out of rural life. 2) Maggie- the shy and retiring younger daughter who lives with Mama. Lacks confidence, shuffles when walks, is in the background and doesn't make eye contact. Lets her sister Dee have the quilts that were promised to her, in order to not make Dee angry 3) Dee- Is the older daughter who has renamed herself Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo. She is educated, worldly and determined and when Mama won't let her have the quilts she claims that her and Maggie don't understand her heritage when she is the one that doesn't understand the important aspect of family heritage. 4) Hakim-a-Barber- Dee's boyfriend who is a black muslim who makes Maggie uncomfortable.

What is this from? She stoops down quickly and lines up picture after picture of me sitting there in front of the house with Maggie cowering behind me. She never takes a shot without making sure the house is included

Alice Walker, Everyday Use

What is realism?

Broadly defined as "the faithful representation of reality" or "verisimilitude," realism is a literary technique practiced by many schools of writing. Although strictly speaking, realism is a technique, it also denotes a particular kind of subject matter, especially the representation of middle-class life. A reaction against Romanticism. realism a "strategy for imagining and managing the threats of social change"

What nonfiction narrative graphic prose did Art Spiegelman write?

From Maus

Who wrote this and what is the title of the piece? These hips are mighty hips. these hips are magic hips. i have known them to put a spell on a man and spin him like a top!

Homage to my hips by Lucille Clifton

What poem did Wallace Stevens write?

The Emperor of Ice Cream

What poem did Elizabeth Bishop write?

The Fish

What is this from? "She carried her head high enough--even when we believed she had fallen. It was as if she demanded more than even the recognition of her dignity as the last of the Grierson; as if she wanted a touch of earthiness to reaffirm her imperviousness."

William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily

What is this from? "They broke across the open cellar door and sprinkled lime there, and in all the outbuildings. As they recrossed the lawn, a window that had been dark was lightened and Miss Emily sat in it, the light behind her, and her upright torso motionless as that of an idol."

William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily

What poem did Anne Sexton write?

Starry Night

Who wrote this and what is the title of the piece? The town does not exist except where one black-haired tree slips up like a drowned woman into the hot sky. The town is silent. The night boils with eleven stars. Oh starry starry night! This is how I want to die. It moves. They are all alive. Even the moon bulges in its orange irons to push children, like a god, from its eye. The old unseen serpent swallows up the stars. Oh starry starry night! This is how I want to die:

Starry Night by Anne Sexton

Who wrote this and what is the title of the piece? The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep. And miles to go before I sleep.

Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost

What fictional short story did Sandra Cisneros write?

Woman Hollering Creek

What play did Eugene O'Neil write?

Long Day's Journey into Night

What short story did William Faulkner write?

"A Rose for Emily"

What story is Colonel Satoris from?

"A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner

What story is Robert (the blind man) from?

"Cathedral" by Raymond Carver

What story is Maggie from?

"Everyday Use" by Alice Walker

What story is Mrs. Hopewell from?

"Good Country People" by Flannery O'Connor

What short story did Ernest Hemingway write?

"Hills Like White Elephants"

What story is James Tyrone from?

"Long Day's Journey into Night" by Eugene O'Neil

What creative nonfiction short story did Maxine Hong Kingston write?

"No name woman" from The Woman Warrior

What story is Chairman Mao from?

"The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

Characters in "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner

1) Miss Emily Grierson 2) Homer Barron- A foreman from the North that takes an interest in Emily and takes her for Sunday drives in a yellow buggy 3) Judge Stevens- Mayor of Jefferson. He tries to handle the situation of the complaints of the smell coming from the Grierson property by sprinkling lime juice all over their land in the middle of the night. 4) Mr. Grierson- Emily's father who is controlling even in the presence of death. He continuously thwarts her decision to find a husband in order to keep her under his control. Glimpses of him with a whip in one hand chasing off her suitors. 5) Tobe- Emily's servant and her only lifeline to the outside world. People eventually stop hounding him for info about Emily and he walks out the back door and never returns 6) Colonel Sartoris- Former Mayor of Jefferson. He absolves all of Emily's tax burden after the death of her father.

What poems did Claude McKay write?

1) The Lynching 2) If We Must Die

What poems did Langston Hughes write?

1) The Negro Speaks of Rivers 2) The Weary Blues

What poems did Williams Carlos Williams write?

1) The Red Wheelbarrow 2) This is Just to Say

What poems did Robert Frost write?

1) The Road Not Taken 2) Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Modernism

1) Traditional story forms were pursuits of order, and reality was much messier. Required a new technique—the fragmented reality. 2)Response to the loss of self-hood and the increasing industrialization and global warfare of the world.

What poems did Gwendolyn Brooks write?

1) We Real Cool 2) Last Quartrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till

What poems did Paul Laurence Dunbar write?

1) We Wear the Mask 2) Sympathy

Characteristics of Realism

1)Renders reality closely and in comprehensive detail. Selective presentation of reality with an emphasis on verisimilitude, even at the expense of a well-made plot 2)Character is more important than action and plot; complex ethical choices are often the subject. 3)Characters appear in their real complexity of temperament and motive; they are in explicable relation to nature, to each other, to their social class, to their own past. 4)Class is important; the novel has traditionally served the interests and aspirations of an insurgent middle class. 5)Events will usually be plausible. Realistic novels avoid the sensational, dramatic elements of naturalistic novels and romances. 6)Diction is natural vernacular, not heightened or poetic; tone may be comic, satiric, or matter-of-fact. 7)Objectivity in presentation becomes increasingly important: overt authorial comments or intrusions diminish as the century progresses. 8)Interior or psychological realism a variant form.

Who is this from? Crows will live in street trees in the residential areas of great cities. They will walk at night on the roofs of parked cars and peck at the grit; they will scrape the pinpoints of their talons across the steel and, with their necks outthrust, watch for frightened children listening in their beds.

Barry Lopez, The Raven

Who is this from? Crows, on the other hand, will search out the great horned owl, kick and punch him awake, and then, for roosting too close to their nests, they will kill him.

Barry Lopez, The Raven

What fictional short story did Raymond Carver write?

Cathedral

Who wrote this and what is the title of the piece? Sticks-in-a-drowse droop over sugary loam Their intricate stem-fur dries; But still the delicate slips keep coaxing up water; The small cells bulge; One nub of growth Nudges a sand-crumb loose, Pokes through a musty sheath Its pale tendrilous horn.

Cuttings by Theodore Rotheke

What is this from? It was one of the happiest nights of my life.

Edward Abbey, Havasu

What is this from? bellowing the Ode to Joy

Edward Abbey, Havasu

What fictional short story did Thomas Pynchon write?

Entropy

What fictional short story did Alice Walker write?

Everyday Use

What poem did Billy Collins write?

Forgetfulness

Who wrote this and what is the title of the piece? The sky, lazily disdaining to pursue The setting sun, too indolent to hold A lengthened tournament for flashing gold, Passively darkens for night's barbecue, A feast of moon and men and barking hounds, An orgy for some genius of the South With blood-hot eyes and cane-lipped scented mouth, Surprised in making folk-songs from soul sounds.

Georgia Dusk by Jean Toomer

What prose poem did Jamaica Kincaid write?

Girl

What fictional short story did Flannery O'Connor write?

Good Country People

What creative nonfiction short story did Edward Abbey write?

Havasu

Who wrote this and what is the title of the piece? If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we must die, O let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not be shed In vain; then even the monsters we defy Shall be constrained to honor us through dead! O kinsmen! We must meet the common foe! Though far outnumbered let us show us brave, And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow! What though before us lies the open grave? Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!

If We Must Die by Claude McKay

What poem did Ezra Pound write?

In a Station of the Metro

What is this from? you mean to say that after all you are really going to be the kind of woman who the baker won't let near the bread?

Jamaica Kincaid, Girl

What is this from? Face flowed into her eyes. Flowed in soft cream foam and plaintive ripples, in such a way that wherever your glance may momentarily have rested, it immediately thereafter wavered in the direction of her eyes

Jean Toomer, Fern

What is this from? If it were dusk, then they'd wait for the search-light of the evening train which you could see miles up the track before it flared across the Dixie Pike, close to her home. Wherever they looked, you'd follow them and then waver back. Like her face, the whole countryside seemed to flow into her eyes. Flowed into them with the soft listless cadence of Georgia's South

Jean Toomer, Fern

What is this from? He's something of a genius. He has a Punjabi mother and a Bengali father, and because he learns French and English at school he already speaks four languages.

Jhumpa Lahiri, Sexy

What is this from? I have believed that sex was unspeakable and words so strong and fathers so frail that "aunt" would do my father mysterious harm

Maxine Hong Kingston, The No Name Woman from the Woman Warrior

What is this from? after fifty years of neglect, I alone devote pages of paper to her, though not origamied into houses and clothes

Maxine Hong Kingston, The No Name Woman from the Woman Warrior

What poem did Sylvia Plath write?

Morning Song

Who wrote this and what is the title of the piece? Love set you going like a fat gold watch, The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry Took its place among the elements. Our voices echo, magnifying your arrival. New statue. In a drafty museum, your nakedness Shadows our safety. We stand round blankly as walls. I'm no more your mother Than the cloud that distills a mirror to reflect its own slow Effacement at the wind's hand. All night your moth-breath Flickers among the flat pink roses. I wake to listen: A far sea moves in my ear.

Morning Song by Sylvia Plath

Environmentalism (60's and 70's)

Rachel Carson's 1962 book Silent Spring opened the door for activism through literature with her book about DDT and other pesticides that were spread on trees to kills pests, and how this affected the ecology of the areas.

What poem did Edwin Arlington Robinson write?

Richard Cory

What poem did Rita Dove write?

Rosa

What is this from? That spindly maze of equations became, for him, a vision of ultimate, cosmic heat-death

Thomas Pynchon, Entropy

What is this from? Or walk to the cinema to see this week's film again, speckled and with one hair quivering annoyingly on the screen. Or to the center of town to order a milk shake that will appear in a day and a half as a pimple on her backside. Or to the girlfriend's house to watch the latest telenovela episode and try to copy the way the women comb their hair, wear their makeup.

Saundra Cisneros, Woman Hollering Creek

What fictional short story did Jhumpa Lahiri write?

Sexy

Who wrote this and what is the title of the piece? after the murder, after the burial Emmett's mother is a pretty-faced thing; The tint of pulled taffy. She sits in a red room, Drinking black coffee. She kisses her killed boy. And she is sorry. Chaos in windy grays Through a red prairie.

The Last Quartrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till by Gwendlynn Brooks

Who wrote this and what is the title of the piece? Bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep. I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it. I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset.

The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes

What poem did Marianne Moore write?

The Paper Nautilus

What creative nonfiction short story did Barry Lopez write?

The Raven

Who wrote this and what is the title of the piece? We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,— This debt we pay to human guile; With torn and bleeding hearts we smile, And mouth with myriad subtleties. Why should the world be overwise, In counting all our tears and sights? Nay, let them only see us, while We wear the mask.

We Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar