2017 Spring Semester Exam Review Guide
Units Covered:
Transcendentalists/Anti-Transcendentalists
The Civil War-A House Divided
Regionalism, Realism/Naturalism (Local Color)
Modernism (fiction and poetry)
The Old Man and the Sea
The Great Gatsby
Common Assessment
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Characteristics of transcendentalism and anti-transcendentalism, realism, naturalism,
modernism writings
Major authors for each unit
o Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, Hawthorne
o Twain, Harte, Bierce
o Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Pound
Each unit of study has excerpts and questions from the excerpts (cold reads)
Terms to Know
Transcendentalism
Anti-transcendentalism
Allegory
Refrain
Slave narratives
Negro spirituals
Regionalism
Local Color
Traditionalism (modernism ppt notes)
Pluralism (modernism ppt notes)
Imagism (Ezra Pound)
Stream of Consciousness (modernism ppt notes)
Realism
Naturalism
Modernism
Harlem Renaissance
“make it new”
Content Assessment
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The Great Gatsby
Essay question
Capstone project presentation (Mon. and Tues. of exam week)