Literature

Critical reading

the active process of analyzing and evaluating a text to understand its full meaning, going beyond a superficial reading to question its purpose, arguments, and underlying assumptions

Contextualize

Place or study in context

Questions to ask to contextualize.

Who wrote it? When was it written? In what social, historical, or literary environment was it written?

What are essays and magazines usually focused on ?

Topics of contemporary , local, or universal intrest

Critical reading questions parts

Reading for meaning and reading for analysis

Reading for meaning

Understanding what the passage is saying,

Reading for analysis

based on how the writer says what they say

Frequently asked questions for reading for meaning.

Distinguish a main idea from a supporting detail is an important reading skill

What will the passage develop?

A character, describe a setting, or advance a plot

What will a non fiction passage develop?

May be purely to perform, persuade, or to entertain.

Writers audience

is the passage intended for a specific group or larger group of people 

In the 1920’s what term was used for what we now call World War 1 

The Great War

!920 not only represented the beginning of gradual improvement in the nations economic outlook but represented the arrival of a new period of

urbanization

Who wrote the 1928 book Home to Harlem

Claude Mckay

What amendment was responsible for prohibition

The Eighteenth amendment

Who was the author of the poem “ The flapper” 

Dorothy Parker

What was ratified on August 18 1920 ?

The Nineteenth Amendment giving women the right to vote

The ownership of what expensive consumer product tripled in 1920’s a product that expected people’s access to forms of entertainment

cars

Writers such as Madison Grant and Lothrop stoddard espoused what kind of pseudo- scientific ideas?

Racism

What did the nineteenth amendment do

It gave women the (federal) vote

What was distinctive about the hair of the typical flapper

It was short bobbed

“G men” often portrayed as heroes, worked for what branch of the U.S government

The FBI

Poets such as Sterling A. Brown and Langston Hughes wrote poetry to imitate what other art form

 Music/jazz

Who were A1 Capone and John Dillinger

gangsters

What important action did the U.S take on April 6, 1917

The U.S entered world war 1/ The Great war

Did Prohibition reduce the consumption of alcohol 

Yes ( somewhat)

What government agency did J edgar hoover work for

The Fbi

Which 1933 novel by dashiell hammett made into a movie in 1934 featured alot of drinking

The thin Man

What were the charleston ad Black Button

dances

In the 1920’s American cities experienced a large influx of African - American and also of what group

immigrants from europe

In the 1920 presidential election how many of the two leading candidates favored the amendment granting women the right to vote

Both of them

The novel the slide of paradise describes the youth culture of the jazz age who wrote this side of paradise 

F. Scott Fitzergerald

what 1931 film starring James Cagney involve bootlegging

The Public Enemy

The Cotton Club was a legendary nightclub located in the 1920’s in which part of new york city

Harlem

Cotton club controversy

Undermined the economic social and cultural gains African- Americans achieved during the Harlem renaissance

The word “ motel is a combination of what two words

Motor Hotel

The influential music of the 1920s was not at all jazz; there was also the kind of music performed by musicians such as Mamie Smith and “ Mississippi “ John Hurt. Which kind of music did they perform

Blues

Which famous modernist poem has been described as using “ collage disjunction… and a dense web of references to both high and low culture

The waste land

What was the name of Angelina Weld Grimke’s groundbreaking play, written in 1916 

Rachel

Emma Goldman campaigned particularly on behalf of what kind of women

working - class women

What what the name of the women who campaigned for the right of women to use birth control

Margaret Sanger

Who wrote the waste land

T.S. Eliot 

The poem “ the Flapper “ refers to which Jazz age write

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Harlem is apart of which city

New york city

What was the name of the band whose 1917 recordings started national trend for jazz

The original Dixieland Jazz band 

What is the name given to the 1920s movement of black people to cities in the north

The Great Migration ( or the first great migration )

Who was U.S president from 1923 to 1929

Calvin Coolidge

Who wrote the novel Manhattan transfer

John Dos Passos

What was Fletcher Henderson famous for 

music /jazz

Modernism attempted to grapple with the psychoanalytic theories designed by which famous figure

Freud

Prohibition most immediate effect on American authors was simply what?

It gave them something new to write about

The waste land is what form of art( novel , short story, poem , article , ect)

poem

What is the title of the book by Nella Larsen about the lives of African - Americans in the New york of the 1920’s

passing

The volsted act was passed to enforce what?

Prohibition / the ban on alcohol

Which two amendments to the constitution were passed in the 1920’s

the 18th and 19th or : prohibition and granting women the right to vote

What was the name of the type of lodging developed to serve travelers traveling by automobile

the motel

of the following which is not an important writer of the 1920’s : William Faulkner, James Joyce, Pearl Buck , Virginia Woolf, John Dos Passo?

Pearl Buck

What important thing came to effect on January 16 1920

Prohibitation

Who wrote the book Flappers and Philosophers

F. Scott Fitzgerald

One of Grimke’s plays concerns a women who decides she does not want to do what thing that women were assumed to want to do

have children

Who wrote the age of innocence

Edith Wharton

The sociologists and activists W. E. B Du Bois was part of what movement , named borough

The Harlem Renaissance

The Hays Code pertained to what kind of entertainment 

movies 

What year did the hays code come into effect

1930

Who or what was “ the charachter type “ who faithfully represented millions of young women in the jazz age

The Flapper

Jazz likely developed out of music played in what American city

New Orleans

Ezra Pound famously said that modernist should “make it “ what

new

Did prices go dramatically up or down in the years 1916-120

up

Lois long wrote for the New yorker under what pseudoym

“lipstick”

Carrie chapman Catt campaigned for what cause

womens rights to vote (or. women’s right)

In the slang of 1920’s what was sheik

a well dressed / fashionable man

Which poet / novelist of the 1920’s focused on “pure “ language and often dispensed with traditional narrative 

Gertrude stein

What was the year the Great Gatsby published

1925

Which charachter in the great gatsby did Ginevera King likely inspire

Daisy

Veblen’s the theory the leisure Class proposed three terms to describe the leisure class “pecuniary emulation and conspicuous leisure were two of the terms what is the third which especially describes Gatsby and other characters in the novel 

conspicuous consumption 

Who played Nick gatsby and daisy in the 1926 silent version

Neil Hamilton played Nick Carraway, and Lois Wilson played Daisy Buchanan

What was the title of fitzergerald first published novel

The slide of paradise

What villiage on long island where fitzergald lived was the inspiration for the village where gatsby lived

Great Neck

Who was Max Perkins in relation to F Scott Fitzgerald

He was fitzgeralds editor

fitgerald began writing the Great Gatsby during a visit to what country

France

An early title for the great gatsby was trimalchio in what?

West Egg 

Fitzgerald editor said that in the early drafts the outlines of which characher were to dim

Gatsby

For a while Fitzgerald lived in Paris along with other americans such as Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway what is the term for the Americans living in paris

Expat or expatriates

What is the name of the narrator of the great Gatsby

Nich Carraway

Define synecdoche

a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa

Who is sheila Grahm in relation to F. Scott FItzgerald

the women he was involved with after Zelda a Hollywood jornalist.

How many chapters does the great gastby have

nine

Which important charachter in the Great Gatsby first  appears “ in person” as late as page 48

Gatsby 

Which charachter has a birthday during the time of narratice

Nick Carragway

Which charachter said “ by God i may be old fashioned but women run around too much these days to suit me

Tom Buchanan

Jordan baker recounts a Louisville memory from years before where daisy is speaking and the officer looked at daisy while she was speaking in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at sometimes while is this episode significant

the officer was gatsby it shows gatsby’s adoration of daisy

“ beauty and the beast “loneliest “ Old Grocery Horse and Montauk Point the Gulls - what are these titles of

Photos taken by Chester McKee

What significant business sits in the valley of ashes next to an all night restaurant

George wilsons garage

What year was gatsby publish

April 10 1925

Why does Gatsby’s father say that he does want to take his sons body back out west with him

Because Gatsby liked the east ( Jimmy always liked it better down east)

Near the end of the book Gatsby’s gardener comes to Gatsby and says he intends to do something important in the grounds before fall comes and Gatsby says “ don’t do it today” what are they talking about 

draining the pool “ pg 153”

Who stays up all night with Wilson the night that myrtle is killed

Michaelis (page 158)

Once when Nick is at Gatsby’s house , tom and a couple named Solane dropped by. What manner of transportation have they used to get Gatsby’s house?

Horseback

Which character is describes as a “ sturdy straw haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and supercilious manner”

Tom Buchannan

Which male character met which female character on a train

Tom met myrtle on the train