American poetry Study guides, Revision notes & Summaries

Praxis 5038 Latest 2023 Graded A+ The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison, african am lit, modernist stream of consciousness, multiple perspectives and deliberate fragmentation, BLACK LIT, gospel, jazz, blues, vernacular. Bluest Eye makes statement of internalized racism to most vulnerable in community- a young girl. Keeps people who wound girl human. Beloved Toni Morrison, like Sethe, Americans must confront ghosts of the past and slavery in order to address its legacy which manifests in racial discrimin...

ABCTE English Exam 178 Questions with Verified Answers The history of English is divided into what three periods? - CORRECT ANSWER Early English (Beginning-1066), Middle Enlgish (), Modern English Danelaw - CORRECT ANSWER a political demarcation established by King Alfred the Great in 868 that gave the eastern half of England to the Danes, but guaranteed that the English who lived there would be treated as full citizens... this preserved the English language What type of literature was ...

CLEP Analyzing and Interpreting Literature Exam 3 Genres - Answer-Poetry Prose Drama 3 Forms of Literary Expression - Answer-American Literature British Literature Works in Translation Prose - Answer-The most common form of written language following natural speech patterns and grammatical structure Phonic - Answer-Pertaining to sound from speech Fiction - Answer-Imaginary narrative; the information or events are created by the author Non-Fiction - Answer-Writing that deliv...

What are the characteristics of Modernism ()? There are 10. - ANSWER-1. Loneliness 2. Sensuality 3. Defense of Indigenism 4. Harmony 5. Exoticism 6. Fine Materials 7. Mythological 8. Sayings/Gallicism 9. Aristocratic 10. Change of meter Who was the most important modernist? Where was he from? - ANSWER-Ruben Dario Nicaragua This type of writing Gained popularity in mid-13th Century w/ Alfonso X - ANSWER-Spanish Prose The last great poet of middle ages. Wrote Coplas a la muerte ...

Upton Sinclair - American novelist, journalist and essayist; "The Jungle" - attacked and exposed abuses in the Chicago meat packing industry - instrumental in forcing the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act; "King Coal", "Boston"; A "muckracker" Muckracker - A socially minded band of writers who decried and attacked perceived immoral conduct in business and government Johan Strindberg - Swedish novelist, playwright, essayist and short-fiction writer; "The Red Room" - bohemi...

FTCE English 6-12 Complete Exam Questions And Answers 100% Verified Alex Haley - answerPost-Civil War to the Present; Roots Alice Childress - answerPost-Civil War and Reconstruction; A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich- 1st afro american playwright on broadway Alice Walker - answerFeminist/ Women in the US; The Color Purple allegory - answera story with a symbolic meaning used to teach a moral story; an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject ...

Metaphysical Poetry - correct answerUses conceits and uses intellectual and philosophical language. Makes abstract comparisons using conceits. ie. John Donne. Michael Wigglesworth - correct answerClergyman who wrote "Day of Doom" and "Meat out of the Eater". He wrote lyrical, theological poems. Puritan. Connotation - correct answerthe feelings or emotions surrounding a word. (ie. home = pleasant haven) motif - correct answerPhase, image, action, that unifies a work of literature by ...

FSU MMC 2000 Exam 2 (Chapters: 5, 6, 7, and 8)Magazines were a favorite of the __________ by the __________. (ch.5) - correct answer British elite, mid 1700's The two colonial printers in "the new world" were _________ and___________. (ch.5) - correct answer Andrew Bradford, Benjamin Franklin. In ____________, Andrew Bradford published __________ in ______________. (ch.5) - correct answer 1741, American Magazine, Philadelphia. Also in ___________ Benjamin Franklin Published _________...

Metaphysical Poetry - Uses conceits and uses intellectual and philosophical language. Makes abstract comparisons using conceits. ie. John Donne. Michael Wigglesworth - Clergyman who wrote "Day of Doom" and "Meat out of the Eater". He wrote lyrical, theological poems. Puritan. Connotation - the feelings or emotions surrounding a word. (ie. home = pleasant haven) motif - Phase, image, action, that unifies a work of literature by recurring throughout it. A theme or idea in a work of art o...

What are the characteristics of Modernism ()? There are 10. - ANSWER-1. Loneliness 2. Sensuality 3. Defense of Indigenism 4. Harmony 5. Exoticism 6. Fine Materials 7. Mythological 8. Sayings/Gallicism 9. Aristocratic 10. Change of meter Who was the most important modernist? Where was he from? - ANSWER-Ruben Dario Nicaragua This type of writing Gained popularity in mid-13th Century w/ Alfonso X - ANSWER-Spanish Prose The last great poet of middle ages. Wrote Coplas a la muerte ...