Potpourri
This story was, like, 90% dialogue
"Hills Like White Elephants" Hemingway
Harlem Renaissance: 3 authors
Wright, McKay, Hughes, Hurston, Cullen, DuBois
THIS literary era features disillusionment, experimentation, diversity, detachment, and doomed heroes:
Modernism
One would argue that the covetous Baja Blast represents everything Mr. Sargent is as a person. THAT is an example of what literary term?
Symbol
The Baja Blast is a SYMBOL of Mr. Sargent's idealized version of the American Dream, one that may prove to be ultimately... unachievable? At least, until lunch hour begins.
hugely impacted by religion and colonization
Latin American Literature
Contemporary Literature has been alternately titled as many many MANY different -isms. Give me two of them...
Transrealism, Postmodernism, Post-postmodernism, Experimentalism
Latin American Literature: 3 authors
Diaz, Neruda, Quiroga, Cisneros, Cofer
THIS literary era intertwines fiction and nonfiction, often in confusing ways:
Postmodernism
Steinbeck's "Chrysanthemums" ends with Elisa "crying weakly--like an old woman," after discovering that her flowers were thrown away. THAT quote is an example of what literary term?
(don't overthink it)
Simile
rise of the anti-hero
Contemporary Literature
This is Islandborn's alternate title:
Lola
Contemporary Literature: 3 authors
McCarthy, Martel, Weir, Garmus, Butler, Kesey
THIS literary era heavily features magical realism, but later authors of the era rejected that storytelling element:
Latin American Literature
Twain's "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" features a narrator who tells increasingly exaggerated tales about a man and his pets. THAT story contains multiple instances of what literary term?
Hyperbole
x2 for dialect/vernacular
aesthetic or social; led by a bunch of news magazines
Realism & Naturalism
"Harlem" or "A Dream Deferred"
Realism & Naturalism: 4 authors
Douglass, Crane, Cather, Bierce, Chopin, Twain
New York was the unofficial capital and cultural center of THIS literary era:
Harlem Renaissance
Cullen's "America" features a reference to Shelley's "Ozymandias," which itself references a character from Roman Mythology. THAT is an example of what literary term?
Allusion
Imagist, symbolist, minimalist
Modernism
DAILY DOUBLE
These 2 stories were all a dream...
"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"
Modernism: 6 authors
Frost, Burton, Thurber, Sandburg, Masters, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Eliot, Steinbeck, Pound
Journals and memoirs were the primary writing of THIS literary era:
Realism & Naturalism
Mr. Mallard is dead at the beginning of Chopin's "Story of an Hour," but alive at the end, and vice versa with Mrs. Mallard. THAT is an example of what literary term?
Irony
x2 points for "Situational Irony"
Depicted life as accurately as possible, but viewed as offensive
Realism & Naturalism
x2 for Regionalism/Local Color