English Final Exam

Theodore Roosevelt

Zitkala Sa

Jack London

Abraham Cahan

Charlotte Gilman

Kate Chopin

W.E.

B DuBois

Claude Mckay

Langston Hughes

Countee Cullen

Hurston

Wright

Coates

Amiri Baraka

Amiri Baraka

Sonia Sanchez

Sonia Sanchez

Mari Evans

Mari Evans

T.S. Eliot

T.S. Eliot

William Faulkner

Tennessee Williams

written to represent life and the social world at the time, close observations and descriptive details concerned with the material conditions of life in attempt to mirror reality- ordinary characters, familiar settings, plot emphasizing the norm of daily experience

concerted movement to turn immigrants into Americans, drop heritage and assimilate to American culture- classes programs, ceremonies on American ideals, language, customs (Pledge of Allegiance)

to make similar, to absorb into the culture of a population or group

system of beliefs dominant in society at a given time and makes what is cultural seem natural, maintains and perpetuates the dominant system of power

gender ideology of public and privates spheres that the woman's place is in the home and the man's place is in the workforce earning money to support family- "true women" directed their households and exerted a moral influence over their family, they were ill suited for the public sphere

cult of domesticity and cult of true womanhood

hierarchical system of social organization whereby men hold positions of power over women

loyalty and devotion to a nation, a sense of national consciousness exalting one nation above all others and promoting its culture and interests as opposed to those of other nations or groups

a person, object, image, word, or event that evokes a range of additional meaning beyond its literal significance ex: "The Yellow Wallpaper"- gender ideology, "cult of domesticity", public and private spheres

technological and industrial innovation, urbanization, "progress"

literary response to modernization in the modern period Recognizes all sides of the era's struggles and debates, while sharing a commitment to explore the many meanings of modernity and to express them in forms appropriate to a modern vision The era's most influential voices believed that old forms would not work for new times and were inspired by the possibility of creating something new The literary response to modernization can be positive, negative, or mixed Writers: Eliot, Faulkner, Harlem Renaissance (Hughes, Cullen, McKay, Hurston, Wright) Glaspel, Williams

1880-1945the time in which modernization is occurring, rapid urbanization (great migration, immigration, americanization), new technologies, WWI, progressive social movements (women's rights, civil rights, labor rights)

interprets modernity as an experience of loss, it is anti-modernization, represents the transformation of traditional society under the pressures of modernization and breaks down traditional literary terms in doing so High modernism in literature uses: construction of fragments, shifts in perspective, voice, and tone, no explanation, interpretation, connection, summary which creates the effect of surprising, shocking, unsettling that mimics the experience of modern life Elliot and Faulkner

key formal characteristic typical of high modernist work- omissions of explanation, interpretation, connection, summary which express human desire for coherence and there is no actual coherence in the modern world Search for meaning- reader participates in the construction of reality Elliot

political and cultural- desire for political self-determination echoed in a desire for cultural self-determinationArt could make a difference in how people viewed the world Written for white audience trying to prove to them that they can be analytical and artistic too

literary movement- black embrace of difference, speaking to a black audience because negotiation has not done any good and placed them in a subservient position, not appealing to white people anymore and their artistic expressionSupports "Black Nationalism"

DuBois metaphor that suggests the struggle for justice and equality against segregation and injustice- the line that divides white white and black, their race is the division

DuBois metaphor - a standard used in U.

S. law saying that a person with any non-white ancestry should be classified as colored, all americans legally designated by race This is an ideology- which must be explained metaphorically because it is not real or true

DuBois metaphor- contradictory motivations where African Americans want to have their culture but know they cannot because white people look down upon them- it is not natural but a society view

rules of conduct recognized in respect to a particular class of human actions or a particular group/culture, social system created them and they are external. We abide because society says it is the right thing to do

principles or habits with respect to right or wrong conduct. Defines how things should work according to an individual's ideals and principles, we believe in something being right or wrong, comes from the individuals therefore is internal

DuBois metaphor which represents how white people view black people with contempt and pity, ideology shapes how they view African AmericansThe african americans can see completely, they can see from behind the veil and see how white people view them but they can also see beyond that ideology and see the complete picture which white people cannot, giving them the upper hand

informal diction that is everyday, communal, spoken, from tradition

level of language: formal, middle, informal

a variety of a language characteristic of a particular group of its speakers- often defined by region or social class

type of symbolism in which the events, characters, actions descriptions, settings, and objects represent specific ideas

comparison between two unlike things Example 1: "True Americanism" immigration as a tide- Example 2: "What life Means to Me" society as a colossal edifice- climb to make way up and succeed

social environment (time, location, ideology of the time, social movement)

first person, second person, third person, free indirect discourse- bivocal (double voice narration), third person narrator attempts to represent the first-person point of view without the appearance of the intruding narrator, the reader is often forced to ask who is speaking