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Authors from semester 2 of Sr. Michaela's American Literature Honors class.
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  1. HARLEM RENAISSANCE
    1. Paul Laurence Dunbar
      1. Poems
        1. We Wear the Mask
          1. Sympathy
            1. Douglass
            2. Among last gen. to have ongoing contact with former African American slaves
              1. Pre-cursor to Harlem Renaissance
              2. Claude McKay
                1. Born in Jamaica
                  1. Did not live long in Harlem, but considered it home
                    1. Poems
                      1. America
                        1. Enslaved
                          1. If We Must Die
                            1. Tropics in New York
                          2. Langston Hughes
                            1. Poems
                              1. Weary Blues
                                1. Harlem
                                  1. Mother to Son
                                    1. I, Too
                                      1. Dreams Deferred
                                      2. considered the "Bard of Harlem"
                                        1. Did not live long in Harlem, but considered it home
                                        2. Wrote plays and screenplays
                                        3. Countee Cullen
                                          1. Poems
                                            1. Tableau
                                              1. Incident
                                              2. Public school teacher in Harlem
                                            2. REALISM
                                              1. Emily Dickinson
                                                1. Poems
                                                  1. Because I could not stop for Death
                                                    1. Death sets a thing significant
                                                      1. Hope is a thing with feathers
                                                        1. I died for beauty
                                                          1. If I can stop one heart from breaking
                                                            1. This is my letter to the world
                                                            2. Went to boarding school and then seminary, exceptional student
                                                              1. often pictured in white
                                                                1. Stylistic Qualities
                                                                  1. Short lines
                                                                    1. personification
                                                                      1. rhyme
                                                                        1. Iambic
                                                                          1. Unique usage
                                                                          2. Abstract
                                                                            1. Tiny Details
                                                                              1. Images/ metaphors
                                                                            2. Mark Twain
                                                                              1. Celebrated Jumping Frog
                                                                                1. Real name- Samuel Clemens
                                                                                  1. Name comes from a measurement used on boats
                                                                                    1. miner
                                                                                      1. Stylistic Qualities
                                                                                        1. vernacular
                                                                                          1. hyperbole
                                                                                            1. Realism
                                                                                            2. Huckleberry Finn
                                                                                              1. Ernest Hemmingway "All modern American Literature comes from [this] one book"
                                                                                                1. "A new way of writing"
                                                                                            3. MODERNS
                                                                                              1. Robert Frost
                                                                                                1. Poems
                                                                                                  1. Acquainted with the Night
                                                                                                    1. Birches
                                                                                                      1. Fire and Ice
                                                                                                        1. Nothing Gold Can Stay
                                                                                                          1. Road not Taken
                                                                                                            1. Stopping by the Woods on A Snowy Evening
                                                                                                            2. Went to school @ Dartmouth and Harvard
                                                                                                              1. Read the poem "The Gift Outright @ Kennedy's presidential inauguration
                                                                                                                1. Stylistic Qualities
                                                                                                                  1. Narrative dialogue
                                                                                                                    1. Nature
                                                                                                                      1. Dramatic monologue
                                                                                                                        1. long lines
                                                                                                                          1. Realism
                                                                                                                        2. Martin Luther King Jr.
                                                                                                                          1. Kennedy
                                                                                                                            1. Ray Bradbury
                                                                                                                              1. Fahrenheit 451
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