1. Thursday, January 29th American Literature
Standard 2 & 3
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Unit 2 vocab words
Notes
Hemingway Mini Bio -
Read and annotate“Hills Like White Elephants”
Smashing Pumpkins “Disarm”
Babylon Revisited Analysis Questions for homework

2. Unit 2 Vocabulary Words
Latin roots FIN = end; SED, SID, SESS = sit, be still; FER = bear, carry, yield, bring.
Insidious - Treacherous or deceitful; intending to entrap or beguile with grave effect
Affinity - A natural liking for or attraction to a person, thing or idea; a close resemblance or connection
Vociferous - Characterized by a vehemently loud or noisy outcry 
Dissident - A person who differs or disagrees in sentiment or opinion, especially from the majority
Sedentary - Characterized by a sitting posture, inactivity and lack of exercise

3. Finesse - Extreme delicacy and adroitness in handling a difficult or highly sensitive situation; subtlety in performance or skill
Assiduous - Working diligently, persistently at a task; unremitting or persevering; industrious
Insufferable - Incapable of being endured; intolerable
Deferential - Showing respectful or courteous regard; yielding to the will or opinion of another
Conferred - granted from or as if from a position of superiority; comparing ideas or opinions; consulted
Infinitesimal - Exceedingly tiny; minute; immeasurably small; less than an assignable quantity
Definitive - Providing a final solution: conclusive; authoritative and apparently completely informative; limiting precisely; satisfying all criteria

4. Notes:
American Modernism: Dates will vary, but it was roughly
Came to be due to increasing industrialization and globalization, as well as WWI and WWII.
Characterized by disillusionment, the decline of civilization, and loneliness.
Think cold machinery and industrialization. Kinda makes me think about the internet age in which we live.
Mostly first person
Steam of Consciousness
Irony, satire, and comparisons were employed to point out the ills of society.

5. The Lost Generation: the post-World War I generation, but specifically a group of U.S. writers who came of age during the war and established their literary reputations in the 1920s.
The term stems from a remark made by Gertrude Stein to Ernest Hemingway, “You are all a lost generation.” Hemingway used it as an epigraph to The Sun Also Rises (1926), a novel that captures the attitudes of a hard-drinking, fast-living set of disillusioned young expatriates in postwar Paris.
The generation was “lost” in the sense that its inherited values were no longer relevant in the postwar world and because of its spiritual alienation from a U.S. Members believe the US to be hopelessly provincial, materialistic, and emotionally barren.
The term embraces Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound and many other writers who made Paris the center of their literary activities in the ’20s.

6. The Jazz Age – from the end of WWI to the beginning of the great depression (1918-1929.
Characterized by hedonism, freedom, and exuberance.
F. Scott Fitzgerald coined the term.
Also called the Roaring 20’s and the Golden Twenties
Disillusionment - a feeling of disappointment resulting from the discovery that something is not as good as one believed it to be.

7. Hemingway’s Iceberg Principle
If a writer of prose knows enough of what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing. –Ernest Hemingway

8. 7 eighths of an iceberg is hidden

9. Six word story
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