Pre-Colonial & Colonial Era
This era of literature is made up of the oral traditions of Native American tribes and the journals of European explorers.
What is the Pre-Colonial era?
The Republican Era took place during this century.
What are the 1700s?
This mans pent time in England writing and then brought back Romantic ideals to America in the early 1800s, making him the first Romantic American writer.
Who was Washington Irving?
This writer was born Samuel Laghorn Clemens as was the major figure of American Realism in the 1800s and early 1900s.
Who was Mark Twain?
The element of Modernism that dealt with the pessimistic view modernists had of the world due to the horros of WWI and the Great Depression.
What is disillusionment?
This important piece of literature was written while the author was imprisoned in Birmingham Alabama.
What are the "Letters from Birmingham Jail?"
This is the only continent without any snake species.
What is antarctica?
This is the country Mr. Robertson is from.
What is the United State of America?
This poetess' collection of poems was published without her permission by friends in England.
Who was Anne Bradstreet?
This medium was the most common for essays and speeches to be pubished in during the Republican Era.
What are newspapers?
This man wrote works such as The Scarlet Letter as well as "The Minister's Black Veil" and "Young Goodman Brown." He is an example of 'dark romanticism.'
Who was Nathanial Hawthorne?
This San Francisco based writer was known for his gritty, realistic stories set in the Yukon Territory. His stories often feature snow and dogs. Don't worry, the dogs are usually safe.
Who was Jack London?
This element of modernism arose as the writers of that era rejected the traditional structure of stories and accepted use of language.
What is experimentalism
-or-
fragmentation?
This author is famous for works such as "Schrodinger's Cat" and "The Direction of the Road."
Who was Ursula K. LeGuin?
These animals are all descendants of the dinosaurs.
What are birds?
This country is where Mr. Robertson's wife is from.
What are the Philippines?
The early Puritan colonists of America considered this to be a sin, so publishing it was banned in the New England colony.
What is fiction?
These papers arguing i favor of the new constitution with a stronger federal government was written by John Kay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton.
What are the Federalist Papers?
This element of Romanticism saw writers using vivid, expressive verbs and nouns in their writing to evoke a powerful description of a characters' emotions.
What is Passion?
This Naturalist novel written by Upton Sinclair describes in depressingly vivid detail the realities of the meat packing industry in Chicago.
What is The Jungle?
This modernist writer use a realist prose style to detail the daily lives of Californians.
Who was John Steinbeck?
This movement within Post-modernism started using deconstructionist philosophies to dismantle the white, male, European center of culture.
What is post-colonialism?
This is the longest living vertebrate animal in the world.
What is the Greenland Shark?
This is the world's largest land-locked country.
What is Kazakhstan?
This was seen as both a scary source of monsters and hostiles natives as well as a vast untamed opportunity by the colonists.
What is nature?
The Boston tea Party, Stamp Act, French-Indian War, and Boston Massacre were all events leading up to this pivotal American event.
What was the Revolutionary War?
This character's catchphrase was "I would prefer not to."
Who was Bartleby, tthe Scrivener?
THis element of Realism caused writers to create large blocks of hyper-detailed description of everyday objects, settings, and events.
What is verisimilitude
-or-
Rejection of sentimentality?
This movement within modernism was known for sharp, clear, images created through experimental use of language.
What is imagism?
This genre of writing evolved from the New Journalism movement of the 1960s and featured writers like Hunter S. Thompson and David Foster Wallace.
What is Creative Non-Fiction?
These are the only animals that are part of the lesser apes family.
What are gibbons?
This is the world's most densely populated country.
What is Monaco?
This man wrote a memoir describing his shipwreck, life among the Native Americans of northern Mexico, and the betrayal of these people by his Spanish countrymen.
Who was Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca?
This man was a poet, writer, inventor, diplomat, and statesman as well as being one of the most prolific advocates for Native American rights during the Republican Era.
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
The poet Edgar Allan Poe was the major figure in this movement within the Romantic Era known for its dark imagery and focus on madness and psychology.
What is the Gothic?
Realism was slowly taking a more positive turn in the early 1900s when this massively horrifying event occured causing the world to take a much darker view of things.
What was WWI?
The moernist idea that nothing matters because meaning is made up by agreement between people.
What is the absurd
-or-
existentialism?
This element of post-colonialism involves trying to remove as much of the influences as possible of the European colonial culture from aboriginal culture.
What is de-colonization?
This was the first animal to orbit the earth.
Who was Laika the dog?
This country's overseas territories include Greenland and the Faroe Islands.
What is Denmark?