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1. (Period and characteristics)
Naturalism/Realist Period
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare - Early modern sonnet
Romantic Period (Britain)
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Writers respond to change through new forms and contents - Expressed both politically and artistically


2. Attempt to capture the extraordinary in the ordinary
Modernism
1. The individual author 2. Attitude towards nature (human nature/natural world) 3. Embrace of 'wonder'
Romantic Period (Britain)
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Imagination tempered by judgment


3. Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Period and characteristics)
Characteristics: An expansion of the traditional scope of the sonnet beyond love - Takes in politics and world events - Shows suppleness and adaptability of the sonnet
Modernist literature
Realism/Realistic Period
20th-Century Modern Period


4. (Title and period)

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5. (Period and characteristics)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism
Modernism
The loss of faith in modern age


6. (Period and definition)
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Resulted in a lot of darkness in poetry
Content/subject matter: Ordinary people- Individual mind of writer - Gothic terrors or supernatural events - Passion - striving - desire - Form: poetry delivered in new styles
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people
20th-Century Modern Period


7. Political revolutions (Period and characteristics)

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8. Return to classics
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers
1830-1901


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

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10. Legacy of European colonialism
The divine workings on 'this creature' - Her tribulations and visions - Reactions of clergy and laypeople to her - Her attempts to have written record of her experiences made
Iroquois prayer-song
Transnational/Postcolonial
Anne Bradstreet - Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Introspective and humble - yet assertive


11. (Period and characteristics)
Postmodernist literature
Modernism
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Literature is circulated orally
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Characteristics: Often in form of an argument - Analytic approach - originality - wit - and intellectual tone - Use of colloquial language - Rough or irregular rhythmic patterns - Metaphysical conceit: elaborate - o


12. Applied Darwin's ideas to society
'The Second Coming' - Pre-WWI
Naturalism/Realist Period
Modernist literature
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines


13. (Title and period)
Romantic Period (Britain)
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period - Images of disillusionment - everything is spiraling out of control
Romantic Period (Britain)


14. Reformist bent
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England
Victorian Period literature
Modernist literature
Ideas: Religious toleration - Separation of church and state - Freedom of press censorship - Popular sovereignty - Poetic responses: 'To His Coy Mistress' by Marvell (carpe diem) - 'On the Late Massacre in Piedmont' by Milton (politicized sonnet)


15. Lorna Goodison (Title and period)

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16. Focus on technologies of stimulation
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions
Postmodernist literature
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason
Their sense of a poet as both creator and receiver of a poem


17. (Period and characteristics)
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Writers respond to change through new forms and contents - Expressed both politically and artistically
Creates intensity
Content/subject matter: Ordinary people- Individual mind of writer - Gothic terrors or supernatural events - Passion - striving - desire - Form: poetry delivered in new styles
Transnational/Postcolonial literature


18. Return to classics
Romantic Period (Britain)
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason
20th-Century Modern Period
Their sense of a poet as both creator and receiver of a poem


19. From the Jacksonian period to the Civil War
American Romantic Period
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Literature of Contact
Romantic Period (Britain)
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Quyting: rebuttal or payback - Fictitious pilgrimage used as framing device for story


20. Primary texts of the Middle Ages

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21. Tone = very modern - omniscience

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22. Ordinary language - plain diction

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23. Transnational
'The Lynching'
Something that operates across/beyond national boundaries
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification
'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy


24. (Period and definition)

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25. Experimentation - wildly creative verse
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot


26. Repetition in Iroquois prayer-song
Romantic Period (Britain)
Creates intensity
'Richard Cory' - Realistic Period
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Literature of Contact


27. Invasion of Celtic Britain to the printing press
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Writers respond to change through new forms and contents - Expressed both politically and artistically
'The Lynching' by McKay
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.


28. Allusive style

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29. Who is the author - what is the period - and what is this an example of?
Britain lost the empire --> decolonization - Beginning of US dominance
Author = William Blake
'The Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau - That life is as fleeting as a flower
Transnational/Postcolonial


30. Transition from Victorian to Modernist

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31. Darwinism and the 'crisis of faith'
Victorian Period - Utilitarianism
Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.


32. Harlem Renaissance subverting of history

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

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34. Imaginative vision in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Fusing mind and nature
Victorian Period
Victorian Period
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification


35. Claude McKay

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36. Aim of postcolonial criticism
Romantic Period (Britain)
To question how the colonized has been represented in the English literary tradition
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
A glimpse into future bleakness of 20th century - 'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy


37. Discovery of Americas
Romantic Period (Britain)
Transnational/Postcolonial - Characteristics: Themes of hybridity (Africa and England) - Ambivalence - 'Where shall I turn - divided to the vein?' - Tug-of-war of identities = should I look back to Europe or Africa for my legacy? - Question of moral
Naturalism/Realist Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance


38. William Blake Interest in imagination

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39. What type of interpretation is Troy Book? Why?
Realistic Period
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)
Highly medieval interpretation of Trojan War - Assumes the historical truth of the story - Stresses the moral and exemplary force of the story


40. Dates of early American literature
Victorian Period literature
1607-1800
'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
'The Weary Blues' - 'I - Too - Sing America'


41. What was the unifying theme of Romantic literature in Britain?
Early National Period/Early American Lit.
Interest in imagination
Constantly read and interpret everything as signs of God's favor or punishment - Early man is full of sin - Monitoring self for signs of grace = crucial
'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson - Country house poem


42. Transnational character
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
The divine workings on 'this creature' - Her tribulations and visions - Reactions of clergy and laypeople to her - Her attempts to have written record of her experiences made
Modernist literature


43. Sense of despair - crisis of faith
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Issues of authorship = female experience and male scribe
Victorian Period literature
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Harlem Renaissance


44. Harlem Renaissance subverting of history

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45. Example of American Indian - Pre-Contact Literature
'A Supermarket in California' - Postmodernism
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Iroquois prayer-song
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period - Images of disillusionment - everything is spiraling out of control


46. Reformist bent
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Writing that crosses national and cultural boundaries
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification
Victorian Period literature


47. Tomato soup can
Example of artistic incorporation of mass media images
Interest in imagination
Constantly read and interpret everything as signs of God's favor or punishment - Early man is full of sin - Monitoring self for signs of grace = crucial
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Acquisition of knowledge - detachment and disinterestedness - refinement of empathy - enlarging perspective - 'The age of virtue'


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

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49. Political revolutions (Period and characteristics)

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50. Impact of the Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression
Disillusionment - depression - unemployment - dissatisfaction with capitalism - Modernism
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Postmodernist literature