Events
Places
Quotes
Periods
Harlem Renaissance
100
The sad ending of "The Luck of Roaring Camp"
What is The Luck (baby) and Kentuck drown?
100
Peyton Farquahar meets his maker here.
What is a railroad bridge?
100
"I was sick--sick unto death of that great agony. . ."
What is The Pit and the Pendulum?
100
Robert Frost and T. S. Eliot wrote during this time.
What is Modernism?
100
This type of song structure was used in the poetry.
What is the blues?
200
A young man is assigned to write a "true" page about himself.
What is "Theme for English B?"
200
Prufrock wishes he were a crab scuttling in this place.
What is the ocean floor?
200
"What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think."
What is "Self-Reliance"?
200
There is no supernatural intervention in stories from this time period.
What is Realism?
200
Two of the main cities that were the end destination of the "Great Migration."
What is Chicago/Detroit/New York/Cleveland?
300
Prufrock has this personal problem when it comes to dealing with women.
What is he is shy or hesitant?
300
Granny Ellen stays in the place during the entire story.
What is her bed?
300
"Fifty yards away, on the crest of a low, thinly wooded ill, he saw several dark objects moving about. . ."
What is "The Coup de Grace"?
300
Slave narratives and the idea of going back to nature describe this time.
What is Romanticism?
300
Other than the Great Depression, this event seemed to signal the end of the Renaissance.
What is The Harlem Race Riots?
400
In order to end his friend suffering, Downing Madwell does this.
What is stab him with his sword?
400
Thoreau goes here to simplify his life; he builds his cabin in this spot.
What is Walden Pond?
400
"The eyes are not here. . .there are no eyes here."
What is "The Hollow Men"?
400
The writing of this time contains elements of gloom, mystery, and the grotesque, as in "Hop-Frog."
What is Transcendentalism?
400
One of the main band leaders of the Big Band era. his Rhapsody in Blue is a signature song.
Who is Duke Ellington?
500
Carter Druse kills his father's horse to prevent this from happening.
What is telling the enemy about the troops in the valley?
500
The Hollow Men gather here but are unable to cross.
What is the tumid river?
500
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer."
What is "on Walden?"
500
Civil war stories were popular as people demanded writing that was more true to life.
What is Realism?
500
The topic of several of the Langston Hughes poems that we read.
What is dreams?
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