American Lit Second Semester Review Eras and Texts

Which era… Especially focused on middle class life? Realism Featured the use of understatement? Modernism Focused on freedom and patriotism? Civil War

Name That Text “The power of thought was restored; he knew that the rope had broken and he had fallen into the stream.” “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”

Name That Text “I generally paid my tuition fee to the boys, with bread, which I also carried in my pocket.” My Bondage and My Freedom

Name That Text “In the meantime the oiler and the correspondent rowed. And also they rowed.” “The Open Boat”

Name That Text “When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease—of joy that kills.” “Story of an Hour”

Name That Text “Now why should that man have fainted? But he did, and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!” “The Yellow Wallpaper”

Name That Text “In the fall the war was always there, but we did not go to it any more.” “In Another Country”

Name That Text “‘It’s really an awfully simple operation, Jig,’ the man said. ‘It’s not really an operation at all.’” “Hills Like White Elephants”

Name That Text “Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, the muttering retreats of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels.” “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

Name That Text “Her eyes, lost in the fatty ridges of her face, looked like two small pieces of coal pressed into a lump of dough as they moved from one face to another while the visitors stated their errand.” “A Rose For Emily”

Who spoke this in Gatsby? “And if you think I didn’t have my share of suffering—look here, when I went to give up that flat and saw that damn box of dog biscuits sitting there on the sideboard, I sat down and cried like a baby.” Tom Buchanan

Who spoke this in Gatsby? “You said a bad driver was only safe until she met another bad driver? Well, I met another bad driver, didn’t I?” Jordan Baker

Who spoke this in Gatsby? “And I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” Daisy Buchanan