Writers and thinkers of the Age of Reason (The Enlightenment) valued reason over...
What is faith.
100
O.K. stands for this misspelling:
What is oll korrect.
100
Romantics reveled in...
What is nature.
100
These people co-edited The Dial, a Transcendentalist magazine (journal).
What are Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
100
What literary time period is characterized by pride in one's race? This time period occurred during the Jazz Age.
What is the Harlem Renaissance.
200
The Declaration of Independence was first drafted by this person.
Who is Thomas Jefferson.
200
What was the Flowering of New England?
What is a growth in literary activity near Boston.
200
Name 2 of the Fireside Poets.
Who are Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greanleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, and Oliver Wendel Holmes.
200
This person was the primary spokesperson for Transcendentalism.
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson.
200
Mark Twain is one of the most well known authors during this literary time period. Writers during this time period focused on writing the truth in everyday life.
What is realism.
300
The Blue-backed Speller was written by
Who is Noah Webster.
300
America was changing and growing in the 1800s. Name one major event that occured.
Answers will vary...
Civil War
War of 1812
Trail of Tears
Louisiana Purchase
Erie Canal
Mexican Army's Assult on The Alamo
Gold Rush
300
Longfellow's poems THE TIDE RISES THE TIDE FALLS and PSALM OF LIFE both embody this theme:
What is life/death/life cycle.
300
Transcendentalists believed in finding "this" through nature.
What is the "oversoul."
300
This literary time periods produced writers that were heavily influenced by Charles Darwin. The characters in their stories were faced with real struggles and had to fight to survive. Jack London was a famous writer fro this time period.
What is Naturalism.
400
Irregular verbs are verbs that...
What is "do not end in -d or -ed."
400
Name one "dark romantic" writer.
Who are Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
400
"Old Ironsides" was symbolic for...
What is America.
400
Henry David Thoreau lived in seclusion near...
What is Walden Pond.
400
Writers from this time period question reality and challenge the reader with fragmented stream of consciousness narration. The writing is experimental and anti-conventional. Sometimes the writers blend genres (i.e. combining nonfiction and fiction).
What is Post Modernism/Contemporary Literature.
500
Name one technique in persuasive writing.
What is...
Rhetorical questions
Charged words
Repetition
Restatement
Parallelism
500
Name the type of narration when the narrator stands outside the action and relates the thoughts and feelings of all characters.
What is Omniscient Narration.
500
Romantics elevated imagination over reason and ____________ over fact.
What is intuition.
500
Transcendental writers were influenced by these great thinkers:
*name one
Who are Immanuel Kant, Plato, and Pascal.
500
Hemingway and Steinbeck were two of the most famous authors from this time period. Authors focused on the realities of the common man's life, and they broke traditional structure and form in their writing style.