Eng 11 Final Lit Review

Baseball player turned evangelist after his conversion

Wrote The American

Wrote "A Worn Path"

Author who wrote "I Never Saw a Moor"

Liked to party it up

Author who wrote The Red Badge of Courage

Wrote This Side of Paradise

Leader in steel industry

Wife struggled with mental illness

Attempt by religious leaders to go back to the fundamental truths of Scripture

Wrote "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"

Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God

Country Ernest Hemingway earned a medal of valor from

Wrote On These I Stand

Real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Wrote Grapes of Wrath

NOT a Master of Realism

African-American author who was influenced by socialism

America's most popular modern poet

Belief that man should give in to his basic sexual instincts

"America's foremost woman writer of fiction"

Spent most of his/her life apart from society

Author who wrote The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems

Nickname for the Modern literature era

Wrote Call of the Wild

What is the nickname for the time of tension between the US and the Soviet Union?

Embezzled money from his employer.

Wrote Shakespeare in Harlem

FDR's plan to get America out of the Great Depression

"The American Dickens"

Author who wrote "Chicago"

Dates for Modern literature

Writers who moved away from America but wrote about American themes

Author of For Whom the Bell Tolls

Riverboat pilot who lost his fortune in bad investments

One major social revolutions that occurred during the Contemporary Era included which topic?

Nickname for the Contemporary Era?

Author who was most interested in the art of his poetry

A writer and anthropologist

Date for Pearl Harbor

What is the desire to gain as many goods as possible to live the best life as possible here on this earth?

Leader in banking

Wrote Roughing It

Disregarded the rules of grammar and punctuation

Wrote "The Gift of the Magi"

Wrote The Old Man and the Sea

Who was the leading evangelist during the Contemporary Era?

What political ideology rivaled Capitalism in America during the decades of the 50s-80s?

Document signed by those who believed man was equal to God

Nickname for the start of the Great Depression

Received a gold medal for his writing

Received over 40 honorary degrees from universities and colleges

Dates for Realism

Joined the Red Cross ambulance corps and received a medal of honor

Considered one of the masters of the American short story

Symbolized the liberated woman of the 20s

Years for the Contemporary Era