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Introduction To English Major

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1. What is this an example of? And name the piece
Earnest - sincere
Example of an extravagantly exaggerated description of the downfall of male 'pride' (premature ejaculation/impotence)
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Questions - emotions ('wild ecstasy') - Music - celebration of youth/love - Mystery (of altar - sacrifice) - Urn/art = 'cold pastoral'

2. (Period and characteristics)
Helps characters survive
Victorian Period
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
450AD-1500

3. Stabilizing of middle class and concern for morality
Puritan culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period - Earl of Rochester
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period
Victorian Period
'Richard Cory' - Realistic Period

4. Symbolic landscape
Philip Freneau - Early National Period/Early American Lit. Direct address to flower - Untouched by humans - protected by nature - But destined to die ('I grieve to see your future doom') - Life is as fleeting as a flower ('the space between - is but
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Romantic Period (Britain)
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility

5. Ishmael Reed (Title and period)
Modernist literature
1607-1800
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' - Derives whole point from mass media influence
1960-present

6. Example of early modern sonnet
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare - Early modern sonnet
Britain lost the empire --> decolonization - Beginning of US dominance
Romantic Period (Britain)
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Resulted in a lot of darkness in poetry

7. In the Kiowa tale - language =
'We' of the lower classes v. Richard Cory
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Imagination tempered by judgment
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - 'Here begins a short treatise and a comforting one for sinful wretches...'
Cunning weapon

8. Reconstruction - rapid urbanization - industrialization
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Realistic Period
Postmodernist literature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars

9. Drive for learning and artistic expression
Old English/Anglo-Saxon - Anglo-Norman - Middle English
'The Lynching' by McKay
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Books are made by hand - Culture of literate orality

10. Texts of the Harlem Renaissance
Claude McKay - 'The Lynching'
Postmodernist literature
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Mingles religious with secular material
(Characteristics)- Feminist response to the male 'imperfect enjoyment' genre - Narrated from female perspective - Cloris' reaction to Lysander's pursuit and impotence

11. Avoids overly symbolic characters - supernatural situations - heightened fantasies
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Ordinary speech - dialogue - Nature - Personal experience - Spontaneous wisdom - The imagination - Valorization of life as a mystery to be experienced - not interrogated - Virtue of doing nothing
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Use of vernacular - Politicization - Historical critique
Realism/Realistic Period

12. What is the setting of 'Dover Beach'?
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' - Derives whole point from mass media influence
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Self-improvement through rational design

13. Conventions of the Augustan Age
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Acquisition of knowledge - detachment and disinterestedness - refinement of empathy - enlarging perspective - 'The age of virtue'
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines
Postmodernist literature
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A popular literary genre of the age - Terse - pointed - witty statement in verse or prose - Wit

14. Charles I executed and Puritan government comes into power
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum)
20th-Century Modern Period

15. Sense of loss or disillusionment
Modernist literature
'The Lynching'
Naturalism/Realist Period
Colonial Period/Early American Lit.

16. (Title and period)
20th-Century Modern Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Mingles religious with secular material

17. Emphasized contemporary life in actual setting
Cunning weapon
Realism/Realistic Period
The plight of the author when dependent on patrons - Jonson flatters his patron with idealized portrait of the patron's estate - Examples: Fantasy of laborless bounty (fish and fowl offer themselves) - Happy laborers (they give to the estate's lord).
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars

18. (Author and period)
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
'Fowles in the Frith' - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Philip Freneau - Early National Period/Early American Lit. Direct address to flower - Untouched by humans - protected by nature - But destined to die ('I grieve to see your future doom') - Life is as fleeting as a flower ('the space between - is but
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature

19. Applied Darwin's ideas to society
Imaginative writing - Specificity of colonial puritan woman's experience
1607-1800
Naturalism/Realist Period
1. Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare 2. 'The Sun Rising' by John Donne 3. 'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson 4. 'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell 5. 'One the Late Massacre in Piedmont' by John Milton

20. Postcolonial literature
Romantic Period (Britain)
A body of literature written by authors with roots to countries that were once colonies established by European nations
Kiowa tale
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Books are made by hand - Culture of literate orality

21. Tone = very modern - omniscience
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - Radical and untraditional - very experimental
Naturalism/Realist Period

22. Emphasis on individual
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' - Derives whole point from mass media influence
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of lyric poetry
'The Darkling Thrush' - Pre-WWI

23. Moral responsibility
'The Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau - That life is as fleeting as a flower
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America

24. What period - and what did this result in?
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Resulted in a lot of darkness in poetry
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason
Realistic Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.

25. Attempt to capture the extraordinary in the ordinary
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Literature of Contact
Romantic Period (Britain)
Emotion > intellect - Individual > society - Imagination > logic - Wild and natural > tame and civilized - Transcendentalism
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces

26. From Jamestown to the American Revolution
The expanded line - Form mirrors content - The expanded line can hold a complete idea - Lets the line expand so that poet can say everything necessary for the subject of that line
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
Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars

27. Self-referentiality (Period and definition)
Victorian Period
Postmodernism - Art = zone of play - not a source of knowledge or certainty
Realism/Realistic Period
American Romantic Period

28. Derek Walcott
Elizabethan Age - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Commonwealth Period/Interregnum
Keats - 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'
Harlem Renaissance
'A Far Cry from Africa' - Transnational/Postcolonial

29. Tone = very modern - omniscience
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
Literature does not transcend history - Literature does not stand in history's foreground - Literature does not reflect history
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - Radical and untraditional - very experimental
Realism/Realistic Period

30. Experimentation and 'stylistic unconventionality'
Writing that crosses national and cultural boundaries
Realism/Realistic Period
Fusing mind and nature
Modernist literature

31. (Period and definition)
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Self-improvement through rational design
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A popular literary genre of the age - Terse - pointed - witty statement in verse or prose - Wit
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use

32. Naturalistic Period
20th-Century Modern Period
Realist Period
Victorian Period literature
Middle Ages/Medieval Period

33. Jonathan Swift
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Questions - emotions ('wild ecstasy') - Music - celebration of youth/love - Mystery (of altar - sacrifice) - Urn/art = 'cold pastoral'
'A Description of Morning' - Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
By Geoffrey Chaucer - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Use of quyting as narrative device
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Politicized sonnet

34. What is the retreat of the tide in 'Dover Beach' a metaphor for?
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread
The loss of faith in modern age
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason
Colonial Period - Revolutionary Age

35. Realistic representation of class tension - frustration - envy
'Richard Cory' by Robinson
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
1900-1945
American Romantic Period

36. Example of the metaphysical poem
'The Sun Rising' by John Donne - Metaphysical poem
Emotion > intellect - Individual > society - Imagination > logic - Wild and natural > tame and civilized - Transcendentalism
Speaker needs strength due to illness
Victorian Period

37. Nation-states with strong monarchs develop
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Mingles religious with secular material
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of the printing press
Through the use of 'thy little -' etc.

38. Romantic rejection of reason
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)
Disillusionment - depression - unemployment - dissatisfaction with capitalism - Modernism
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)

39. (Title and period)
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Mingles religious with secular material
Victorian Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period

40. Three revolutions of British Romantic Period
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions
The loss of faith in modern age
'Richard Cory' by Robinson
'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy

41. Three aesthetics of Romantic literature
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A popular literary genre of the age - Terse - pointed - witty statement in verse or prose - Wit
Victorian Period - Utilitarianism
1. The individual author 2. Attitude towards nature (human nature/natural world) 3. Embrace of 'wonder'
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of the printing press

42. What is the conclusion of 'Dover Beach'?
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Ordinary speech - dialogue - Nature - Personal experience - Spontaneous wisdom - The imagination - Valorization of life as a mystery to be experienced - not interrogated - Virtue of doing nothing
Faith to another ('let us be true') offered as solution to crisis of faith

43. Dates of American Romanticism/Realism and Naturalism
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
1785-1830
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)
1800-1900

44. Protest movements and counterculture
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' by Reed Ex. of transformation of identity through technological systems
Postmodernism
A Victorian response to 20th century
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions

45. Hybridity
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Postmodernism
Creates intensity
Romantic Period (Britain) 'To see a world in a grain of sand - And a heaven in a wild flower - Hold infinity in the palm of your hand - And eternity in an hour.'

46. Invasion of Celtic Britain to the printing press
To question how the colonized has been represented in the English literary tradition
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Court culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use

47. Detachment from moral bearings
Postmodernist literature
Male-centered: rejection of Virgin Mary and family hierarchy
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

48. Point of view of 'Richard Cory'
To explain and edify
'We' of the lower classes v. Richard Cory
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Quyting: rebuttal or payback - Fictitious pilgrimage used as framing device for story

49. (Title and period)
'The Second Coming' - Pre-WWI
Full of self-assertion and radical vision
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Postmodernist literature

50. Darwinism and the 'crisis of faith'
Victorian Period - Utilitarianism
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason
Modernist literature
'We' of the lower classes v. Richard Cory

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