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Introduction To English Major

Subject : english
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1. What do both 'The Disappointment' and 'The Imperfect Enjoyment' show?


2. Sometimes referred to as the 'Pre-Romantic' period






3. Pessimism and alienation in 'The Darkling Thrust'






4. Often compared to Thomas Gray's 'Elegy in a Country Churchyard'


5. (Period and characteristics)






6. Puritan world-view


7. Elizabeth Barrett Browning 'The Cry of the Children'






8. Which period's literature stresses the importance of psychology and interiority (moods - visions - reflections - meditations)






9. Wordsworth's 'Expostulation and Reply'






10. English colonization






11. (Title and period)


12. Langston Hughes


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


14. In the Kiowa tale - strategic use of language...






15. Emphasized contemporary life in actual setting






16. T. S. Eliot


17. (Title and period)


18. Claude McKay


19. What ideas did the end of the Commonwealth Period give birth to? What were the poetic responses?


20. What does the form of Browning's 'The Cry of the Children' give a sense of? How?






21. 'Beauty is truth - truth beauty'


22. In the Kiowa tale - language =






23. Realistic details of 'Richard Cory'






24. Conscious efforts to innovate






25. Example of the carpe diem poem


26. Drive for learning and artistic expression






27. Avoids sentimentalism






28. Minimalism






29. Detachment from moral bearings






30. Emphasis on spontaneity rather than convention or formalism






31. Development of printing press






32. 19th century as a corpse seen through winter landscape


33. Subdivisions of Early Modern Period/Renaissance






34. 'Guinea Women'(Period and characteristics)






35. (Title and period)


36. Pagan authors = sources for thinking






37. Theaters reopened and comedy flourished






38. Assumptions of postcolonial/transnational literature


39. William Blake Interest in imagination


40. 'Relentless change'






41. Interrogation and incorporation of mass media forms and images






42. Example of the metaphysical poem


43. Each person is innately divine






44. Dates of Middle Ages/Medieval Period






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


46. Which period's literature stresses the importance of psychology and interiority (moods - visions - reflections - meditations)






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






48. (Period and definition)






49. (Period and effect)






50. Freud and psychoanalysis