Transcendentalists
The Jungle and “Chicago”
As I Lay Dying
The Great Gatsby
Ethan and Ernest
Plays: The Crucible and Hamlet
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Henry David Thoreau built his famous cabin in this Massachusetts town.
What is Concord?
Walt Whitman’s life was spent composing one long series of poems, with this title.
What is Leaves of Grass?
Ralph Waldo Emerson celebrated the common man with essays like this one, which was one of his more famous works.
What is “Self- Reliance”?
This Whitman poem depicts an epiphany that a young man has after hearing a college lecture.
What is “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer”?
Though Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as a poet, he chiefly wrote in this genre instead.
What is essay (or nonfiction)?
The Jungle exposes gross human rights violations in this industry.
What is the meat- packing industry?
The author of The Jungle was a part of this journalistic movement.
What is muck-raking?
Upton Sinclair disdained Capitalism, and instead preferred this state-oriented system.
What is Socialism?
Sandburg’s use of colloquial language in his poems suggests that his audience is primarily this type of person.
What is the common man (or the working class)?
When Sandburg depicts the city of Chicago “laughing as a young fighter laughs,” he is employing these TWO literary devices.
What are personification and simile?
William Faulkner wrote in this style of uninterrupted ideas from the top of his character’s heads.
What is stream-of- consciousness?
Central to the character development of Darl and Jewel is this concept, derived from the Greek letter for “x.”
What is chiasmus? (In Greek, “x” is “chi.”
With his self- proclaimed identity as one who “observes” and “knows,” William Faulkner is most similar to this narrator, one of 15 in the novel.
Who is Darl?
This is the term for the study of word origins.
What is etymology?
This is the fictional county in which Faulkner sets a large number of his novels.
What is Yoknapatawpha?
The author of the novel, he is named after his great uncle, the man who composed “The Star- Spangled Banner.”
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
The author of The Great Gatsby was a part of this movement of writers who had immigrated to Europe from America.
What is the expatriate movement or the Lost Generation?
The appearance of these – in the form of character’s nicknames and illustrations on a billboard – is a recurrent motif in the novel.
What are eyes?
This color, which denotes both opulence and cowardice, is prevalent in the novel.
What is yellow?
This age in which the story takes place was known for great literature, great music, and great parties.
What is the Jazz Age (1920s)?
The novel Ethan Frome takes place in this fictional Massachusetts town, which is cold and desolate.
What is Starkfield?
Edith Wharton created this character to represent her own frustrations about being trapped in an unhappy marriage.
Who is Ethan Frome?
This is the reason that Zeena comes to stay with Ethan in the first place.
What is providing nursing care for Ethan’s mother?
This is the name of Ernest Hemingway’s recurrent protagonist, who appears in stories like “Indian Camp” and “Ten Indians.”
Who is Nick Adams?
The short story “Hills Like White Elephants” features a discussion about this topic, though the word is never expressly used in the piece.
What is abortion?
This is John Proctor’s ultimate fate.
What is a public hanging?
The Crucible serves as an allegory for this time in American history, during which Communist paranoia was rampant.
What is the Red Scare?
This U.S. senator led the charge against Communism.
Who is Joe McCarthy?
In Hamlet, this character is the chief source of comic relief – besides Hamlet himself.
Who is the grave digger?
This is the literary term for when the audience knows something that a character does not – like the fact that it’s Polonius behind the curtain.
What is dramatic irony?
This literary subgenre of Lee and Faulkner was at times not well- received by “Yankees.”
What is Southern Gothic?