American Literature exam with correct answers 2024
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American Literature
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American Literature
What are the four stages of modernism? correct answers European movement, American Movement, Second Generation of American Writers, modern movement
What are the characteristics of modernism? correct answers Rejected tradition, experimentation with shape, color, form, and sound
What is a Col...
What are the four stages of modernism? correct answers European movement,
American Movement, Second Generation of American Writers, modern movement
What are the characteristics of modernism? correct answers Rejected tradition,
experimentation with shape, color, form, and sound
What is a Collage in Modern Art? correct answers Applied in literature to works
incorporating quotations, allusions, foreign expressions, and nonverbal elements
Three different groups of modernists that emerged? correct answers Ex-patriots,
Rebels at home, and southern agrarians
What poems did we cover from Robert Frost? correct answers After Apple Picking,
Nothing Gold Can Stay, Stopping by the Woods
A little about After Apple Picking correct answers An extended metaphor that compares
Apple Picking to Life. Apples represent expreiences
A little about Nothing Gold Can Stay correct answers First moment of spring is precious
What about Stopping by the Woods? correct answers Metaphor that compares a
traumatizing life event
What stuff did Edwin Arlington Robinson write? (that we covered) correct answers
Richard Cory, Miniver Cheevy
A little about Richard Cory correct answers Portrays a person that one would assume
had it all, but in reality was incredibly depressed
Something about Miniver Cheevy? correct answers Felt he was born in the wrong time
period
What did Wallace Stevens write, that we covered? correct answers Death of a Soldier,
Anecdote of a Jar, Disillusionment of Ten O' Clock, Sunday Morning
So like let's analyze death of a soldier correct answers it considers the death of a
soldier not in the terms of glory, but as an anonymous, uncelebrated event; as inevitable
as the fall of leaves in Autumn
Analyze Anecdote of the Jar correct answers Relationship between humans and
nature; trying to instill order onto madness
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