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Introduction To English Major

Subject : english
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1. (Period and definition)






2. What is the tone of 'Dover Beach'?






3. Westward expansion






4. Rebellious movement






5. How are sentimentality and emotions portrayed in 'The Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau?


6. What is the retreat of the tide in 'Dover Beach' a metaphor for?






7. What is this an example of? And name the piece


8. Poetry can arouse wonder by creating perspective of ignorance or innocence in the reader - the sense of novelty - freshness of sensation






9. Freud and psychoanalysis






10. 'This poem has had up to here; this poem is the reader and the reader the poem'


11. Beat Generation






12. Dates of the Romantic Period (Britain)






13. Transnational






14. Problem/struggle of British Romantic literature's content?






15. Alexander Pope - Jonathon Swift - Joseph Addison - Daniel Defoe






16. Interest in the unconscious






17. Questioning of traditional institutions - customs - and morals (America)






18. Embrace of cacophony and chaos






19. What do both 'The Disappointment' and 'The Imperfect Enjoyment' show?


20. What does the line 'the space between - is but an hour' mean?


21. Subdivisions of Early Modern Period/Renaissance






22. Avant-garde






23. Awareness of horrors of empire and industrialism






24. Culmination of Enlightenment






25. Uses ordinary language






26. Realistic details of 'Richard Cory'






27. (Period and definition)






28. Human nature is essentially good






29. 'The Disappointment' - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period


30. Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Period and characteristics)






31. Motivated by industrial reform






32. Dates of Postmodernism






33. Rewriting and subverting a history of American prejudices and ideological scripts






34. Emphasis on spontaneity rather than convention or formalism






35. Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period






36. (Period and definition)






37. (Period and aftermath)






38. Time of crisis - turmoil - and disillusionment for many writers






39. Primary texts of the Middle Ages


40. Langston Hughes


41. Aim of postcolonial criticism






42. Emphasis on individual






43. Modernist alienation from mainstream


44. Rejection of form and order - Emphasis on uncertainty and play






45. Focus on feelings and moments of heightened awareness






46. Point of view of 'Richard Cory'


47. Rejection of 18th-century emphasis on neoclassical - reason - constraint - order - etc.






48. What was the unifying theme of Romantic literature in Britain?






49. Rebellious movement






50. Growing economic inequality