English 3025 Final Exam Study Guide
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Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Themes: struggles with morality and ethics, conflict between civilization and nature
Motifs: religion vs. folklore, slavery
Symbolism: Mississippi River=freedom (for Huck from civilization, for Jim from slavery)
Emily Dickinson, selected poems
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, “A New England Nun”; “The Revolt of ‘Mother”
W.E.B. DuBois, selections from The Souls of Black Folk
Charles Chesnutt, “The Wife of his Youth”
Stephen Crane, “The Blue Hotel”
Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country
Ernest Hemingway, selections from In Our Time
William Carlos Williams, selected poems
Wallace Stevens, selected poems
Langston Hughes, selected poems
Zora Neale Hurston, “Drenched in Light”; “Story in Harlem Slang”
Allen Ginsberg, selected poems
Toni Morrison, Beloved
Ada Limón, selected poems
Viet Thanh Nguyen, Sympathizer