Writing
Native American Lit
Colonial Narratives &
Age of Faith
Age of Reason
Romantics
100
Verbosity means
wordy
100
What is an origin myth?
a traditional story recounting the beginning of earthly life, often including immortal beings
100
Which man was a Puritan leader? John Smith or William Bradford
William Bradford
100
The Declaration of Independence was crafted using similar grammatical structures in numerous paragraphs. What literary technique is this?
parallelism
100
In what year did the American Romantic period take place?
1800s
200
MLA formatting requires your name/teacher's name/class/date on which side of the paper?
left
200
Native literature was viewed as
folklore
200
Where did Columbus land?
San Salvador
200
Most of the literature from the Age of Reason was...
public & political
200
What is the Faust Legend?
A man sells his soul to the devil for earthly benefits.
300
If your writing is redundant, it is
repetitive
300
The Iroquois Nation created
the Iroquois Confederation of the Five Nations and the Iroquois Constitution
300
Early settlers primarily wrote
narratives
300
"Write injuries in dust, benefits in blood" is an...
aphorism
300
Romantic writers elevated imagination over reason and _________ over fact.
What is intuition.
400
What is the correct plural possessive of "the pens owned by the students?"
the students' pens
400
Who do the Onondaga credit with the creation of their world?
The water animals
400
Edward Taylor's poem "Huswifery" is an extended metaphor, or a...
conceit
400
Who said, "Give me liberty or give me death!"?
Thomas Paine
400
Name all 4 of the Fireside Poets.
Longfellow, Holmes, Whittier, Lowell
500
What is the superlative form of the adjective "good"?
best
500
Which American leader studied the Iroquois Constitution as a reference for the US Constitution?
Benjamin Franklin
500
Mary Rowlandson is given credit for starting which literary genre?
captivity story
500
What two traits did Benjamin Franklin believe were most important to quality prose?
clarity and brevity
500
What is the "message" or theme in "A Psalm of Life"?
Life a sublime life; lead, don't follow
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