Colonial & Puritan
She is often considered the first published female American poet, known for works like "The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America."
Who is Anne Bradstreet?
This founding father wrote Poor Richard's Almanack and is an exemplar of the American Enlightenment.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This author and essayist championed civil disobedience after spending a night in jail for refusing to pay a poll tax.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
This New England writer used the gothic landscape and region as a backdrop for his short stories and novels.
Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?
"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."
Who is Thoreau?
This term describes the Puritan belief that God has already decided who is saved and who is damned.
What is predestination?
Known as a poet of the Revolution, she addressed abolition and praised George Washington in her work, such as "To His Excellency General Washington."
"Who is Phillis Wheatley?
"Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string."
Who is Emerson?
This convention of the Gothic genre involves the use of an ancient, decaying, or isolated building to establish mood and setting.
What is a Haunted (or Gothic) Mansion/Castle? Or European gothic?
The 1850 act that intensified the national conflict over slavery by requiring citizens in free states to return runaway slaves to their owners.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This narrative recounts a woman's capture by Native Americans during King Philip's War and is a foundational text of the captivity narrative genre.
What is "A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson"?
The term for the 18th-century intellectual movement in Europe and America that emphasized reason, science, and individualism over tradition.
What is the Enlightenment?
This famous writer comes from not only a family of writers but of Transcendentalist thinkers and educators.
Who is Louisa May Alcott?
In Poe's tale "The Masque of the Red Death," the guests in Prince Prospero's abbey are ultimately unable to escape this inevitable force.
What is Death (or the Plague)?
This is the use of hints or clues in a narrative to suggest what action is about to come, as often seen in the rising tension of Poe's stories.
What is foreshadowing?
Unlike the Puritans who sought to purify the Church of England, the Pilgrims were considered this type of Protestant because they sought to break away completely.
What are Separatists?
This author wrote the first American short story
Who is Washington Irving?
This Transcendentalist, a feminist and activist, wrote Woman in the Nineteenth Century and served as the first editor of the movement's journal, The Dial.
Who is Margaret Fuller?
This is the specific narrative mode in Poe's stories, characterized by a single, focused consciousness struggling with psychological deterioration (e.g., the narrator of "The Tell-Tale Heart" or in "Cask of Amontillado").
What is the First-Person unreliable narrator?
Douglass delivered this famous speech on July 5th, 1852, in this city in New York State.
What is Rochester?
The literary device where an author employs a setting, a character, or an event to deliver a broader message about human nature or morality, common in Puritan and Dark Romantic writings.
What is allegory?
literary movement that became prominent in the late 19th century, focusing on the detailed depiction of a specific geographic region's culture, dialect, customs, and landscape
What is regionalism?
This utopian community, inspired by Transcendentalist ideals and featuring figures like Nathaniel Hawthorne, attempted to integrate intellectual labor with manual labor.
What is Brook Farm?
One of Hawthorne's short stories that uses this physical flaw—a small hand-shaped mark on the cheek—as a symbol for human imperfection and mortality.
What is the Birthmark?
Douglass begins the speech by praising the Founding Fathers and the principles of the Declaration of Independence, a rhetorical strategy known as this, used to build rapport before delivering his critique.
What is Ethos ( credibility)?