PACC Final

Bret Harte

Realist, wrote Outcast of Poker Flats

John Oakhurst

main character in Poker Flats. 20 ft of snow and Uncle Billy stole the Mules. He dies in exhile.

T.S. Elliot

anti-romantic, free verse poetry

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

T.S. Elliot, couldn’t live in harmony with the real world. Stuck by his thoughts, wants a lover.

Journey of the Magi

T.S Elliot, Die to yourself in order to live eternally

Imagism

Written in free verse, Ezra Pound was the leader of the movement. Portrays images through writing.

Example of imagism

In a station of the metro- ghost like faces, petals on wet black branches

WASP

White Anglo-Saxon protestants. Immigration tears them apart.

Flappers

Modern women. Bob haircuts, short skirts.

Naturalism

no soul, radical thinking, hostile environment

Realism

confined to physical world, the attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth

Three big dogs

Darwin, Freud, Marx

Objective Correlativeness

Series of events trying to make you think something

WW1

blew things up, started modernism. End of realism

mimesis

Aristotle’s word that imitates literature’s based on the imitation of life

satire

ridiculing vice (envy) and folly (stupid), the feud in Huckleberry Finn

bildungsroman

a youth who is innocent and through a series of experiences becomes mature.

omniscient

knowing everything

Limited Omniscient

We know all the thoughts of just one character

objective narrator

One who relates the events of the story and characters' actions without directly telling the reader the characters' inner thoughts or feelings. Provides unbiased view from the reader

Nietzsche

Athesit,’, believed heaven was just a world of ideas, attempts to unmask religion

Ibsem

Imitation, lifelike experiences, realist

Law of club and fang

Law of force and power. (Spitz)

Christ figure in Huckleberry Finn

Jim. He sacrifices for Huck. Betrayed multiple times. Got bit in leg by snake, protoevangelium

atavism

the reemergence of ancestral biological traits which are aroused by dangerous circumstances

local color

Realism utilization of regional dialect

solidarity

oneness

Mass Men/herd mentality

all men doing the same thing

proletariat

working class men

Super structure

supports the base such as art, movies, books, etc.

base

capitalism

Bourgeois

The means of production, business owners, middle-class

Oedipus Complex

Getting with mom and killing dad

Electra Complex

Getting with dad and killing mom

Type of Christ in “A view of the woods”

Mary Fortune getting innocently whipped by Pitts

agnst

Sense of dread or emptiness

What are the three stages

Anesthetic, ethical and religious stage

Anesthetic stage

lives in the moment, seeks pleasure

Ethical stage

Serious, has morals

Religious stage

Open arms to God, Christianity

Nihilism

Nothing means anything, life is meaningless. Rejection of all morals and religion

Alienation

being isolated from a group or place that you should be involved in

I-thou

real person, get treated with feelings

I-it

just another thing, don’t get treated as a person

everydayness

experiencing the same thing every single day and never switching up

Verisimilitude

the idea of being close to the truth

Harlem Rennisance

black people trying to find their identity

Claude McKay

Roman Catholic, wrote Tropics of New York, If We Must Die, Outcast and St. Issac’s Church

William Faulkner

Wrote Intruder in the Dusk, modernist

Crawford Gowrie

Intruder in the Dust, murderer of his brother Vincent and Jake Montgomery

Mrs. Habersham

Intruder in the Dust, helps Lucas so he doesn’t get falsely accused

Hope Hampton

Intruder in the Dust, sheriff

Free Verse

No rhyme scheme

Mark Twain

Realist, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Huck Finn

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 13 year old boy, outcast

Tom

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Foil to Huck, Huck eventually abandons him, stubborn

Widow Douglas

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Patient with Huck, Huck likes her

The Grangerfords

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, they let Huck stay with them

Ezra Pound

Uses imagism in his poems. Modernist. Wrote In a station of the metro and The Garden

Scott Fitzgerald

Romantic, wrote The Great Gatsby.

Nick Carraway

The Great Gatsby, moves to West Egg in New York from Minnesota to learn about bond business

The Great Gatsby POV

First person limited

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn POV

First Person

Of Mice and Men POV

objective

Tom Beauchamp

The Great Gatsby, marries Daisy, wealthy, has high moral standards for those around him

Myrtle Wilson

The Great Gatsby, Toms lover whom is married to George, whom dies.

John Steinbeck

Wrote Of Mice and Men, Modernist

Candy

Of Mice and Men, has an old dog that gets shot, handyman that lost his hand. Wants to be part of their dream

Curley

Of Mice and Men, picks fights with larger men

Slim

Of Mice and Men, friend to George after he shoots Lennie

Walker Percy

Deep Catholic faith, wrote The Moviegoer

Paul Dunbar

Part of Harlem Renaissance period. Wrote Douglass, We Wear the Mask and Life’s Tragedy

Countee Cullen

Harlem Renaissance poet, wrote The Black Christ and Yet I do Marvel

Intruder in the Dust POV

Third person limited

Tennesse Williams

Wrote The Glass Menagerie, southern gothic style

Laura Wingfield

The Glass Menagerie, crippled, daughter of Amanda, Sister of Tom

Jim O’Conner

The Glass Menagerie, gentlemen Caller

Flannery O’Conner

Wrote A view of the Woods, Parkers Back, A Good Man is Hard to Find and Violent Bear it Away

A View of the Woods

Flannery O’Conner, Mary fortune loves her grandpa and then turns on him and her grandpa kills her

Parkers Back

Man got a tattoo of Christ on his back for his wife and she hit him saying it was idolatry

The Power and the Glory POV

3rd person limited to omniscient

Langston Hughes

A negro speaks of rivers

Claude McKay

Atheist and Communist who becomes a Catholic

Mark Twain

He wrote about James Fennimore Coopers literary

Unities

realistic play should have one plot, one place

Symbolism

Shows realism’s lack of depth and lack of mystery (the great Gatsby) (Fitzgerald)

line of ism’s

Romantism, Naturalism, Symbolism, Modernism

Modernism

Society has shattered into fragments after world war one

Huxley

Disciple of Darwin that believes that men are electro-magnetic current

Darwinism

Buck’s biology, he has no free will

adaptation

Buck hiding in the snow to survive

Marx

Gold rush fated Mercedes to die, economics is fated men

Bourgeois

Marx’s wealthy class

ID

Acting on forbidden desires, shaped by early traumas

herd instinct

Proletariat following the rich

Freud

Human behavior shaped by unconscious

dialectic materialism

All conflicts are solved by two opposing forces

couplet

Two rhymed lines of poetry

ascendants

repeating vowels

Ballad

The haunted Oak in four three meter