Humanities 3
First Semester Study Guide
Be able to place the following literary eras and historical events on a timeline:
Puritan
Age of Reason
Romantic
Transcendental
Realistic
Modern
Revolutionary War
Civil War
World War 1
Identify qualities typical of each literary tradition, and recognize major authors related to each.
Puritanism
Rationalism
Romanticism: Fireside, Transcendental
Realism
Naturalism
Modernism
Be familiar with the following authors and how they represent their literary eras
Puritan—Ann Bradstreet
Rationalist—Patrick Henry
Romantic (bold—be familiar with stylistic techniques)
William Cullen Bryant
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Walt Whitman
Edgar Allan Poe “The Fall of the House of Usher”
Emily Dickinson (various poems)
Realist
Mark Twain
Jack London
Stephen Crane
Modern—F. Scott Fitzgerald
Poetry /literary terms to review:
iamb
trochee
anapest
spondee
dactyl
pyrrhic
amphibrach
satire
logos
rhyme scheme
symbol
pathos
blank verse
archetype
ethos
free verse
synesthesia
couplet
quatrain
irony
Literature:
“The Fall of the House of Usher” Poe
Huckleberry Finn Twain
The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald
Major characters and their backgrounds/motivations
Gatsby
Daisy
Tom
Jordan
Myrtle
George
Nick
Minor characters: Wolfsheim, Michaelis, Owl Eyes, Klipspringer, Dan Cody
Symbols: green light, TJ Eckleberg
Settings, the Eggs, Valley of Ashes, New York
Main events of the plot
Themes
Vocabulary:
languid
hauteur
peremptory
incessant
contiguous
pastoral
constrained
innuendo
Basic Archetypes: earth mother, wanderer, hero, trickster, the forest, water
The Hero’s Journey
Innocence, Initiation, Chaos, Resolution
Recognize logos, pathos, ethos
Grammar: use of coordinating conjunction; subordinated clause; clause v. phrase