She wrote "Indian Names" and "The Puritans Welcome to the Pilgrim Fathers."
Who is Lydia Sigourney?
100
One of the objects that Emerson's speaker takes home with him in "Each and All."
What are a sparrow, a shell, and a "gentle wife"?
100
The writer whom Irving might have been satirizing in "Rip Van Winkle."
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
100
The place where Daisy and Winterbourne travel on their first date and where the religious prisoner, Bonnivard, was exiled.
What is the Castle of Chillon?
100
A place that represents an intellectual theme (e.g., a river symbolizes time or change).
What is a topos?
200
The theory influenced by eighteenth-century philosophers and writers that Indians were childlike, natural, and untouched by civilization.
What is the "noble savage"?
200
"I mark’d, where, on a little promontory, it stood, isolated;
Mark’d how, to explore the vacant, vast surrounding,
It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself"
What is "A Noiseless, Patient Spider"?
200
The items that Rip encounters after he has woken up from his twenty-year sleep that tell us time has passed.
What are a rusty gun, a rushing torrent, and a long beard?
200
The school of writing in which life is portrayed as it actually is, rather than as we would like it, and that uses often gritty detail.
What is realism?
200
A list of items in the natural world that are organized in paratactic or parallel structure.
What is a catalog? (Walt Whitman's poetry)
300
The notion that Indians were disappearing and were in a state of decline.
What is the "vanishing Indian"?
300
A Romantic work that mentions lakes and rivers.
What are the bodies of water in Lydia Sigourney's "Indian Names" or Lydia Mariah Child's "The Lone Indian"?
300
The place for which Huck plans to "light out" at the end of the novel.
What is the "territory"? (Oklahoma in the 1840s had already been settled, perhaps a satirical commentary on the possibilities of freedom from conformity.)
300
The reason Daisy Miller asks her mother to ask Winterbourne if he remembers their trip to the castle and to tell him that she was never engaged.
What is Daisy's desire for Winterbourne's "esteem"? ("She would have appreciated one's esteem.")
300
A school of thought that attempts to transcend the physical to reach a spiritual realm and finds in nature a source of spiritual revelation.
What is transcendentalism?
400
The work in which the character, Powontanamo, disappears at the end of the story after his family has been killed.
What is "The Lone Indian"?
400
A poem that explains the difference between the scientist's and the poet's way of knowing things in the world.
What is "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer"? (Walt Whitman's poetry)
400
The forced march of Native Americans in 1838-1840 that informs one of Lydia Sigourney's poems.
What is the Trail of Tears?
400
The language or institutions of official culture that influence Huck during his crisis of conscience scene.
What are religion or politics?
400
An eighteenth-century and Romantic idea that portrays a feeling of elevation inspired by scenes of natural grandeur. This idea often reflects a mood of exaltation tempered by fear of loss of self.
What is the sublime?
500
The theory that assimilation will occur through marriage between Native Americans and people of other races.
What is "amalgamation"?
500
Emily Dickinson's choice not to publish nevertheless did not prevent her from contemplating fame or the function of poetry in these poems, as did other Romantic writers (name one or explain her perspective)
What is "This is my letter," "This was a Poet--it is that," "I dwell in Possibility," and "The Poets light but Lamps"?
500
The belief that freedom and equality are inalienable rights with which one is born, not subject to custom, law, or culture. (They are parodied in Huckleberry Finn.)
What are "natural rights"?
500
At least three topics that Twain satirizes in his novel and give an example.
What are race, sentimentality, class, and religion?
500
Romanticism (a brief definition or hallmarks)
What is a school of thought that portrays heightened feeling, elevates children, interprets nature symbolically, and seeks to recapture a moment of lost plenitude that existed in past or perhaps never existed at all?