A Wonderful Life
This African-American poet was one of the most popular to come from the Harlem Renaissance.
Who is Langston Hughes?
This character had failed at achieving the American Dream, so he could only be content inside his daydreams.
Who is Walter Mitty?
The American Dream incorporated three central tenets--bounty, [this _____], and independence--which worked together to help citizens achieve success and happiness.
What is the progress?
A major image in "Acquainted with the Night" is that of "one luminary clock against the sky," which has these two possible meanings.
What is the moon or a clocktower?
In "Nothing Gold Can Stay," "gold" can stand for this.
What is [money, youth, wealth, beauty, spring, morning... etc.]?
This author was known for his humorous writings, like "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" (whose daydreaming protagonist inspired characters such as Snoopy and Calvin & Hobbes).
Who is James Thurber?
This rich character seemed to have the American Dream in his hands, but his suicide in the final lines of the poem reflected his actual unhappiness.
Who is Richard Cory?
The Modern Literary Period spanned these years.
What is 1900-1950?
When Mitty tries to act like a surgeon, he uses [this literary device], of which "streptothricosis" is an example.
What is jargon?
This neighborhood in New York City was the birthplace of an explosion of African-American art, writing, music, and more.
What is Harlem?
This poet tried creative experiments in his work, like making the meaning of "etcetera" change 8 times or shaping his poem like a grasshopper.
Who is e.e. cummings?
In this poem, Langston Hughes describes how many different groups (like the farmer and the immigrant) have been kept from the American Dream.
What is "Let America Be America Again"?
This term means "a work that mimics another in form or style in order to mock it."
What is a parody?
The phrase “pocketa pocketa” is an example of this literary device, in which sounds are spelled out.
(don't worry, spelling doesn't count here)
What is onomatopoeia?
Harold Krebs loses this as a result of his PTSD/the war.
What is religious faith?
This author, who usually focused on war themes, won the Nobel Prize in literature and created the idea of a certain "code" and "hero."
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
This soldier (in a story by Ernest Hemingway) returns home with no energy/desire to pursue the American Dream.
Who is Harold Krebs?
Some American poets and writers felt stifled and alienated in America, so they moved to Paris for more freedom--and became known by this term.
SPELLING COUNTS :)
What are expatriates?
The letters in the SOAPSTone analysis strategy stand for these words (in the proper order).
What are Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Subject, and Tone?
These two literary devices are more specific types of repetition, where the repeated phrase occurs at the beginnings of clauses or at the ends of clauses.
What are anaphora and epistrophe?
These three characters all die in "A Rose for Emily," in this order.
Who are Colonel Grierson, Homer Barron, and Emily Grierson?
In Frost’s poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” he explains that the paradise of the American Dream cannot last for everyone—alluding directly to this biblical location.
What is Eden?
This term refers to the idea that, because life has so many painful times, one must embrace the good times while they exist.
What is the "Hemingway Code"?
The poem "The Red Wheelbarrow" is an example of this school of thought regarding poetry--as opposed to the other school, known as "symbolism."
What is "imagism"?
These two groups of people, as described in our Modernist Literary Period notes, found some improvement in their overall circumstances during the course of the 1900s-1950s.
Who are African-Americans and women?