The Burial of the Dead
This group of poets wrote with clear and precise wording, often used an abstract and informal structure, and believed anything could be a subject (including a urinal)
Imagists
Humorist and cartoonist best known for contributions to The New Yorker magazine where he worked most of his adult life. Gave up drawing because his failing eyesight developed into full blindness.
James Thurber
In "The Little House," how does Burton primarily convey the passage of time?
Changing seasons
I would also accept development of the city
Well known for his use of repetition and caesura, this poet is still alive today and has only published two poems. Frequent subject matter includes black dogs and green drinks.
Mr. Sargent :)
This is the term for poetry without regular rhyme or meter
Free verse
This is the term for the group of American writers who lived in Europe from post-WWI until the Great Depression.
Expatriates
Nobel and Pulitzer winner born in Oak Park, IL. Committed suicide but left behind an impressive body of work and an iconic style that still influences writers. “Papa” whose personality and pursuit of adventure loomed almost as large as his creative talent.
Ernest Hemingway
In Frost's "The Road Not Taken," the speaker expresses regret at the end of the poem because of this.
The speaker will likely never come back to the yellow wood to take the other path
Grew up on grandfather's farm then became a Chicago lawyer. Work went largely unnoticed until Spoon River Anthology, a collection of 245 free-verse epitaphs "spoken" from the grave by former inhabitants of a fictitious small town.
Edgar Masters
This is the term for a literary and more descriptive nickname
ex: Chicago -> The Windy City
Epithet
Modern heroes are brave and honorable, but are tortured by this.
Whatever man.
Known for turbulent personal life (debt, alcoholism, crazy wife). Died feeling a failure, b but post WW2 he gained a reputation as a pre-eminent author who is required reading for most HS students.
Walter Mitty's daydreams contrast with his reality to create this kind of tone.
Bitter/Tragic Tone
Four-time Pulitzer Prize winner who wrote about New England (but born in San Francisco). Showed life through language and situations familiar to the common man. A poetic force and unofficial "poet laureate" of the US.
Robert Frost
This is the term for a recurring element in a text -- usually an image or phrase
Motif
Symbolists
German philosopher and revolutionary socialist who published The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital, anticapitalist works that form the basis of Marxism.
Karl Marx
In "Chrysanthemums," Eliza's limited scope of life is symbolized by this.
The bowl-like valley she lives in.
I would also accept the flowers
Poet, folklorist, novelist, and historian who won a Pulitzer Prize for Abraham Lincoln: The War Years. Fought in the Spanish-American War. In 1913, he moved to Chicago to begin a long career as a journalist.
Carl Sandburg
This is the term for an absurd imitation of a style, artist, or genre
Parody
DAILY DOUBLE
List three traits of Modern Literature + wager up to 1000 pts. If you don't have a wager written, I will assume 0.
Experimental, embraced chaos, questions the status quo, ironic, sarcastic, humorless, detached POVs, truth is subjective, sophisticated, absence of God, inner conflicts, tragic heroes
A popular, political, local color writer of California, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Grapes of Wrath, portrayed the plight of Dust Bowl migrant workers during the Great Depression. Died from complications after surgery.
John Steinbeck
In "Hills Like White Elephants," the incoming train symbolizes this.
Potential futures, the difficult decision, the unknown
In Sanburg's "Grass," the growing grass symbolizes this.
Growing thirst for Baja Blast
JK
Forgetfulness that comes with the passage of time
This is the term for a type of poem in which the author addresses an inanimate object as thought it could understand what the author says.
Apostrophe