Chapter 1
This plant grew in the center of the world according to "How the World Began."
What is a tree?
This was the main subject matter of literature once the colonies were established.
What is religious?
In persuasion, an appeal to facts and reason.
What is logos?
This literary spirit dominated American literature from 1820-1865.
What is Romanticism?
This poem by Edgar Allen Poe is considered a narrative poem because it has the plot elements of a short story.
What is "The Raven"?
This document influenced the Founding Fathers as they created the U.S. Constitution.
What is the Iroquois Constitution?
What is the Bay Psalm Book?
A powerful speech delivered by Patrick Henry on the brink of the American Revolution.
What is "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!"?
These are the four cornerstones (emphases) of American Romanticism.
What are imagination, individualism, nature and the distant?
Edgar Allen Poe insisted on these two literary standards.
What is a story should be short enough to read in one sitting and dominated by a single mood or emotion?
This author wrote a captivity narrative.
Who is Mary Rowlandson?
This person from early America believed in the concept of separation of church and state.
Who is Roger Williams?
In persuasion, an appeal to a credible authority.
What is ethos?
Who are Evangeline and Gabriel during the Deportation of the Acadians?
This author wrote the first American work to be widely read on both sides of the Atlantic.
Who is Washington Irving?
This was the primary purpose of literature in early America.
What is instruct/inform?
This author wrote a powerful sermon full of imagery, Biblical allusions and illustration from ordinary life.
America won literary independence from this country.
What is Great Britain?
The Romantics believed this about God.
This major event in U.S. history shattered the optimistic faith of the Romantic era.
What is the U.S. Civil War?
This author focused on God's providence when things went wrong on their journey.
Who is William Bradford?
What is an appreciation of God's majesty?
In persuasion, an appeal to emotions.
What is pathos?
The Romantic point of view on the individual and society.
What is the view of the individual was superior to the view of the masses?
These are the elements of a Romantic hero.
What are:
isolated from society, usually in nature
having good morals
demonstrating the qualities of a warrior
undergoing an initiation