The poem "Oh Captain, My Captain" was written for this person.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
The reason Robert Frost dropped out of school
What is to work for his family?
100
This is mainly what Langston Hughes wrote about.
What is the struggle of African Americans?
200
Civil disobedience is also known as this: (3 words)
What is non-violent resistance?
200
Name two majors influences of Modernism:
What are WWII, The Jazz Age, Women's Rights, Prohibition?
200
In, "I Hear America Singing", Whitman mentions these types of jobs
What are blue collar, or labor oriented jobs?
200
The narrator of Birches watches a young boy do this
What is swing on tree branches?
200
The literary movement in which Langston Hughes wrote.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
300
Edgar Alan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville were all members of what group?
What are the Dark Romanticists?
300
The rose in "A Rose for Emily" is symbolized by these two things, which also happen to be themes of the story.
What are love and death?
300
This is an example of onomatopoeia from "I heard a fly buzz-when I died" by Dickinson
What is buzz?
300
The boy in Birches plays the way he does because of this
What is he lives too far from town?
300
Another name for the Harlem Renaissance
What is The New Negro Movement?
400
These are the values of American Romanticism: (at least 3)
What are nature, emotions, individualism, revolution, fantasy, exotic, creative?
400
This person coined the term "The Lost Generation".
Who is Gertrude Stein?
400
This is how death in "Because I could not stop for Death" is characterized: (3 ways)
What is going slow, not scary, as a carriage driver?
400
A simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson
What is a parable?
400
The two things compared in "Mother to Son"
What are a hard life and a crystal stair?
500
This is what Romantics disliked and tried to avoid (at least two things)
What is the city, urban settings, money, etc.?
500
These are TWO themes of American Modernism:
What are:
Collectivism versus individualism
Disillusionment
Violence and alienation
Decadence and decay
Loss and despair
Breakdown of social norms and cultural sureties
Race and gender relations
The American Dream
500
This is when most of Emily Dickinson's poems were published
What is posthumously?
500
WCW - DOUBLE JEOPARDY
RECITE - IN ENTIRETY, William Carlos Williams' "The Red Wheelbarrow"
"So much depends upon
a red wheelbarrow
glazed with rainwater
beside the white chickens"
500
RICHARD WRIGHT: The gun in "The Man Who Was Almos' A Man", symbolized this for the main character.