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- who wrote "Johnny Got His Gun"
- Dalton Trumbo
- what are the types of prose writing?
- expository, persuasive, and narrative
- What are the four types of sentences?
- imperative, exclamatory, interrogative, declarative
- what does the A in the Scarlet Letter symbolize? For Hester? For Dimmesdale? For Winthrop?
- able, adultery, angel for Gov. Winthrop's death, Arthur's adultery, alienation, affair. For Dimmesdale it is anguish and atonement.
- Where does the scarlet A appear?
- Hester's dress, her grave, and in the sky.
- What does the rosebush symbolize in the Scarlet Letter?
- It is red and stands for hope, Pearl says she was plucked from the rosebush.
- What does the scaffold symbolize in the Scarlet Letter?
- Stands for the cruel puritan code, Hester looks down on the Puritans, where the family is first together in second scaffold scene.
- What does the forest symbolize in the Scarlet Letter?
- it symbolizes evil, wickedness, where Mistress Hibbins goes, where Hester meets Dimmesdale at and he comes out changed.
- What do the kisses symbolize in the Scarlet Letter?
- Dimmesdale kisses Pearls brow she excepts it because he helps her, in the forest Pearl washes off his kiss, she kisses him on the scaffold to show he excepts her.
- What does Mistress Hibbins symbolize?
- Witchcraft
- What does the sun do and symbolize in the Scarlet LetteR?
- It shines down on PEarl, but not Hester until she removes the A in the forest.
- Who wrote 'A Description of New England?'
- John Smith
- What are the three areas of writing?
- poetry, prose, drama
- Who wrote 'To My Dear and Loving Husband?'
- Anne Bradstreet
- an ideal place or state?
- utopia
- Who writes and what is plain style?
- The puritans; not fancy or ornate, no figures of speech.
- What did plain style writers write?
- sermons, diaries, and other personal narratives.
- Important writers in the Early American Period
- John Smith, William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet
- Key ideas from the Early American period of writing?
- discovery, grace and salvation, utopia, democratic principles, the american lanscape
- What are themes of the Early American writing period?
- guilt, pride, and alienation
- Early American writing focused primarily on...
- nature and religion. ie creation stories
- Who wrote 'Letters of a woman Homesteader?'
- Elinore Pruit Stewart
- What five 'i's is romanticism classified by?
- imagination, intuition, idealism, inspiration, individuality
- six qualities of neoclassicism?
- reason, moderation, science, society, pragmatism, cool wit
- six qualities of romanticism (beside the five 'i's)?
- intuition, excess, nature, self, idealism, intense feeling
- what does enlightenment mean?
- process of acquiring new knowledge or understanding particularly on a spiritual level.
- What are three themes of neoclassicism and the age of enlightenment?
- justice, liberty, and equality
- Who wrote 'Common Sense?'
- Thomas Paine
- Examples of writing in the time of neoclassicism?
- politcal pamphlets, travel writing/nature, essays, speeches, aphorisms, propaganda
- In the time of neoclassicism writing became more...
- secular (free of religion) and political
- important writers in the Reason and Revolution period (neoclassicism and enlightenment)?
- Thomas Paine, Ben Franklin, Patrick Henry, Jefferson, webster
- Key ideas of Reason and Revolution (neoclassicism and enlightenment)?
- representative gov., natural rights, freedom, seperation of church and state, american identity, national literature and language
- What was the Romanticism a reaction to?
- the previous era of reason
- Examples of literary works from the Romantic time period?
- short stories, novels, poetry, and gothic literature
- Who wrote 'The Devil and Tom Walker?'
- Washington Irving
- Who wrote 'I Hear America Singing' and 'Song of Myself'?
- Walt Whitman
- Who were the improtant writers of the Romantic time period?
- Irving, Whitman, Poe
- Key ideas from the Romantic time period?
- Gothicism, nationalism, and individualism
- What was the New England Renaissance?
- Transcendentalism (taking romanticism a step forward.)
- Many literary works of transcendentalism includes...
- songs, poems, symbolism, essays, and philosophies
- What is Transcendentalism?
- when one goes beyond limits and above others.
- Three big beliefs of Transcendentalism?
- - direct correspondence between the universe and the individual - people transcend the world and discover union with oversoul that unites us all - follow your intuition, however divergent from the social norm and all people are inherently good
- Key ideas of the Renaissance/Transcendentalism period?
- spiritualism, transcendentalism, individualism, optimism, idealism, NATURE
- Who wrote Walden?
- Henry David Thoreau
- Who wrote Nature and Self-Reliance?
- Waldo Emerson
- Important writers during the New England Renaissance?
- Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Sojourner Truth
- What two movements were Transcendentalists involved in?
- abolition and women's rights
- Impotant writers of the Conflict and Celebration period?
- Douglass, Lincoln, Walt Whitman
- key ideas from the Conflict and Celebration period?
- civil war, freedom vs. slavery, the american dream
- Who wrote 'O Captain, My Captain?'
- Walt Whitman
- Gothic setting?
- medivel setting, old castle with secret passages, trap doors, darkness, impenetrable walls, isolation
- Gothic atmosphere? (mood and tone)
- sense of mystery, suspense, darkness, oppressiveness, fear, arouses terror
- Gothic themes?
- focus on the darker side of human nature: betrayal, revenge, insanity, superstition
- Gothic victim?
- vulnerable, helpless charcter in danger such as a woman
- Gothic villain?
- threat that is associated with evil whose powers are immense and/or supernatural
- Gothic stories also inclide...
- omens, visions, nightmares, and supernatural
- Transcendentalist educator?
- Bronson Alcott
- Transcendentalist feminist writer?
- Margaret Fuller
- Tone?
- writer's attitude towards the material and/or his readers
- Mood?
- emotions the readers feel while reading or after reading
- Blank verse poem?
- does not need to rhyme but is written in iambic pentameter
- Free verse poem?
- no rules of rhyme or rhythm
- lyric poem?
- personal display of emotion with musical quality
- anaphora?
- deliberate repitition of a word or phrase at the begginning of two or more lines
- 3 line stanza 4 line stanza 5 line stanza 6 line stanza 7 line stanza
- tercet quatrain quintet sestet septet
- Who wrote 'The Open Boat?'
- Stephen Crane
- spacing on MLA paper?
- double-spaced
- margins on MLA paper?
- one-inch all around
- page numbers on MLA paper?
- pages numbered consecutively with last name on right side
- header is _______ inch from top?
- half-inch
- MLA paper: upper left-hand corner includes?
- full name, teacher, course, date
- MLA paper: date order?
- day, month, year
- who wrote 'At the French Front' to the New York Sun?
- Alan Seeger
- Who wrote The Soldier and what was its concept?
- Rupert Brooke, Noble Expectations
- Who wrote Munition Wages and what was its concept?
- Madeline Ida Bedford, Bittersweet peace
- Siegfried Sassoon wrote in what WW1 concept?
- harsh realities, and bittersweet peace
- who wrote suicide in the trenches?
- sassoon, harsh realities
- who wrote Dulce Et Decorum Est and what is its concept?
- Wilfred Owen, harsh realities
- Who wrote 'The Hollow Men' and what is its concepts?
- T.S. Eliot, harsh realities
- Who wrote look at this) and what is its concept?
- e.e. cummings, harsh realities
- who wrote Champs d'Honneur, [All Armies Are the Same...], and To Good Guys Dead? What is the concept he writes with?
- Ernest Hemingway, harsh realities
- Who wrote Survivors? What is the concept
- Sassoon, harsh realities
- who wrote 'Repression of War Experience?' what concept does it fit in?
- Sassoon, harsh realities and bittersweet peace
- What concept is 'johnny got his gun?'
- harsh realities and bittersweet peace