Flashcard American Lit

8/14/2019 Flashcard American Lit

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Robert Frost(1874-1963)


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A nature poet who used plain

speech and short, traditional

forms of lyrics

Wrote:-Nothing Gold Can Stay

-The Road Not Taken


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F. Scott Fitzgerald(1896-1940)


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Celebrated the boom of the

1920s and crash of 1930s

Wrote:

-The Great Gatsby


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T.S. Elliot(1888-1965)


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Ernest Hemingway(1899-1961)


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Wrote:

-A Farewell to Arms

-For Whom the Bell Tolls

-The Old Man and the Sea

-The Sun also Rises


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Sylvia Plath(1932-1963)


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E.E. Cummings(1894-1962)


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One of the most notablepoets of the 20th C., used

creativity in his poems

Wrote:

-The Enormous Room-Tulips and Chimneys


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William Faulkner(1897-1963)


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Experimented in use ofstream-of-consciousness

technique in his novels

Wrote:

-The Sound and The Fury

-As I Lay Dying

-Absalom! Absalom!


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Sherwood Anderson(1876-1941)


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Influenced Hemingway andFaulkner

Wrote:

-Windy McPhersons Son

-Many Marriages-Marching Men


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Upton Sinclair(1878-1968)


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American novelist, essayist,

playwright, and short story

writerWrote:

-The Jungle


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Willa Cather(1873-1947)


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Considered one of the best

chroniclers of pioneering life

in the 20th C.

Wrote:-My Antonia

-One of Ours


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Gertrude Stein(1874-1946)


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The autobiography of Alice

B. Toklas

Tender Buttons

The Making of Americans


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Sinclair Lewis(1885-1951)


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1st American to win Nobel

Prize for Literature

Wrote:

-Arrowsmith-Main Street

-Babbitt


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John Steinbeck(1902-1968)


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Considered foremost novelist

of American Depression of

the 1930s

Wrote:-The Grapes of Wrath

-Of Mice and Men

-The Red Pony


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Stephen Crane(1871-1900)


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Was internationally well-

known for his depiction of

ghetto life and the

deprivation of warWrote:

-The Red Badge of Courage

-Maggie, A Girl of the Streets


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James Fenimore Cooper(1789-1851)


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1st great national novelist

Wrote:

-The Leatherstocking series

-The Last of the Mohicans


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Mary Rowlandson(1635-1678)


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Wrote about her 11-week

captivity byIndians during an

Indian massacre of 1676

Wrote:-The Narrative


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Phillis Wheatly(1753-1784)


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Frances Ellen

Watkins Harper

(1825-1911)


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Active in abolition, womens

sufferage, and temperance

movement

Wrote:-Sketches of Southern Life


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Best known American poet

of the 1800s

Wrote:

-The Song of Hiawatha-The Courtship of Miles

Standish


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Fredrick Douglass(1818-1895)


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Nathaniel Hawthorne(1804-1864)


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Thomas Paine(1737-1809)


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Sold over 100,000 copies in

1st 3 months of publication

of his 1st book

Wrote:-Common Sense


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Anne Bradstreet(1612-1672)


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Louisa May Alcott(1832-1888)


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Wrote:

-Little Women-Little Men

-8 Cousins

-Rose in Bloom


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Walt Whitman(1819-1892)


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Wrote The Song of Myself,

which he was most known

for

Wrote:-Leaves of Grass


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Mark Twain

(Samuel Clemens)(1835-1910)


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Admired for capturing typical

American experiences in a

language which is realistic

and charming

Wrote:-The Adventures of Huck

Finn

-The Adventures of Tom

Sawyer-Life on the Mississippi


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Jack London(1876-1916)


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Wrote:

-The Call of the Wild

-White Fang

-Seawolf-The War of the Classes


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Harriet Beecher Stowe(1811-1896)


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Depicts slavery as evil b/c it

divides families and destroys

normal parental love

Wrote:-Uncle Toms Cabin


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Samson Occom(1723-1792)


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Wrote one of the earliest

autobiographies of an

American Indian, which

explains his conversion toChristianity and rejection of

his tribe, Mohawks

Wrote:

-A Short Narrative of My Life


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Edgar Allan Poe(1809-1849)


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Invented detective fiction

Wrote:

-The Raven

-The Purloined Letter-The Gold Bug


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Herman Melville(1819-1891)


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Wrote:

-Moby Dick

-Typee

-Bartleby, the Scrivner


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John Smith(1580-1631)


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Captain who startedJamestown colony

Married Pocahontas

Wrote:

-A Map of VA, with a

Description of the country


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Jonathan Edwards(1703-1758)


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Henry James(1843-1916)


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Made important contributionsto the literary theories

Wrote:

-The Portrait of a Lady

-The Turn of the Screw

-The Art of Fiction


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Emily Dickinson(1830-1886)


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Wrote nearly 8,000 poemson love, nature, faith, and

death

Uses ambiguity, obscurity,

and onomatopoeia


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John Greenleaf Whittier(1807-1892)


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Respected for his anti-slavery poems

Wrote:

-Snowbound

-Ichabod


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William Byrd II(1674-1744)


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One of the 1st Americans todocument appreciation of

Americas vast wilderness

Wrote:

-History of the Dividing Line


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Ambrose Bierce(1842-1914)


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Noted for his Civil War talesWrote:

-Devils Dictionary

-Tales of Soldiers and

Civilians

-Can Such Things Be?


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Paul Laurence Dunbar(1872-1906)


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Well known for his poetrythat was written in the dialect

of southern blacks

1st African-American to gain

national prominence as a

poet

Wrote:

-Oak and Ivy-In Old Plantation Days


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Jupiter Hammon(1711-1806)


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1st black writer to publish inAmerica

Wrote:

-Evening Thought; An Essay

on the 10 Virgins

-An Address of Miss Phyllis

Wheatly


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St. Jean de Crvecoeur(1735-1813)


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1st European writer toexplore the concept of the

American dream

Wrote:

-Letters From an American

Farmer


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Edward Taylor(1642-1729)


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Finest example of 17th C.poetry in America

Best writer of the Puritan

Times

Wrote:

-Prepatory Meditations


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John Winthrop(1588-1649)


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William Bradford(1589-1590)


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One of the authors of TheMayflower Compact

Wrote:

-History of the Plymouth

Plantation


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Washington Irving(1789-1859)


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1st American literaryhumorist

Introduced non-fiction prose

as a genre

Wrote:

-Rip Van Winkle

-The Legend of

SleepyHollow


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William Cullen Bryant(1794-1878)


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Wrote:-Thanatopsis

Translated:

-Illiad

-Odyssey


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Maya Angelou(1928-present)


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*One of the greatest voices ofcontemporary literature

*Has written 12 best sellers which

includes I Know Why the Cage Bird

Sings and her more currentA Song

Flung Up to Heaven

*Another icon (Oprah) respectfully

transcends Mayas words, If you get give


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Apprenticed printer turned witty writer.

Best known for 1733 Poor RichardsAlmanac, which preached the value of

hard work and thrift along with clever

maxims for achieving wealth.

Other Works:

-Rules by which a Great Empire May

be Reduced to a Small Once

-Remarks Concerning the Savages ofNorth America

-The Autobiography


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Emily Dickinson(1830-1886)


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Wrote, at the last count, 1,789 poems.

Only a handful of them were publishedduring her lifetime all anonymously

and probably without her knowledge.

Wrote:-I shall know why, when time is over-I never lost as much but twice


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Harlem Renaissance(unofficially = 1919-mid 1930s)


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Flowering of African American art, music,

literature, and culture in the US led primarilyby the African American community based in

Harlem, NY

Langston HughesZora Neal Hurston

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