Thursday, January 29th
American Literature
O Standard 2 & 3
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O Unit 2 vocab words
O Notes
O Hemingway Mini Bio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JQDe0GCNHg
O Read and annotate“Hills Like White Elephants”
O Smashing Pumpkins “Disarm”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKdPffpsPKI
O Babylon Revisited Analysis Questions for homework
Unit 2 Vocabulary Words
Latin roots FIN = end; SED, SID, SESS = sit, be still; FER = bear,
carry, yield, bring.
1. Insidious - Treacherous or deceitful; intending to entrap or
beguile with grave effect
2. Affinity - A natural liking for or attraction to a person, thing or
idea; a close resemblance or connection
3. Vociferous - Characterized by a vehemently loud or noisy
outcry
4. Dissident - A person who differs or disagrees in sentiment or
opinion, especially from the majority
5. Sedentary - Characterized by a sitting posture, inactivity and
lack of exercise
O Finesse - Extreme delicacy and adroitness in handling a
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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
Notes:
O American Modernism: Dates will vary, but it was roughly
1900-1960.
O Came to be due to increasing industrialization and
globalization, as well as WWI and WWII.
O Characterized by disillusionment, the decline of civilization,
and loneliness.
O Think cold machinery and industrialization. Kinda makes me think
about the internet age in which we live.
O Mostly first person
O Steam of Consciousness
O Irony, satire, and comparisons were employed to point out the
ills of society.
O 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.
O 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 harddrinking, fast-living set of disillusioned young expatriates in
postwar Paris.
O 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.
O 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.
O The Jazz Age – from the end of WWI to the beginning
of the great depression (1918-1929.
O Characterized by hedonism, freedom, and
exuberance.
O F. Scott Fitzgerald coined the term.
O Also called the Roaring 20’s and the Golden Twenties
O Disillusionment - a feeling of disappointment
resulting from the discovery that something is not as
good as one believed it to be.
Hemingway’s Iceberg Principle
O 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
O 7 eighths of an
iceberg is hidden
Six word story
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O NEVER WORN.