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Edgar Allen Poe is most famous for this poem
What is The Raven?
A literary device that gives human traits to nonhuman entities.
What is personification?
The first American Lit movement was characterized by a lack of fiction and highly religious influences.
What is Puritanism?
He wrote the Great Gatsby.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
In the Great Gatsby, color is an example of this literary device.
What is symbolism?
Poe usually writes about one of these two subjects.
What are Dead Lovers and Spooky Spooky Deaths?
The three main appeals in Rhetoric.
What are Logos, Pathos, and Ethos?
A literary movement emphasizing nature, individuality, and self-reliance.
What is Trancendentalism?
A poetess of the romantic era famous for her short poems that play with homophones and themes of death.
Who is Emily Dickenson?
The color most associated with Jay Gatsby. The color of money, hope, and growth.
What is Green?
The literary style that Poe wrote in is called this.
What is Gothic Literature?
An appeal to timing.
What is Kairos?
Movement also called the "American Renaissance", all about imagination, feeling, nature, and individuality.
What is American Romanticism?
A transcendentalist author who preached civil disobedience and spent time in jail.
Who is Henry David Threau?
Gold in "The Great Gatsby" symbolizes this.
Opportunity, wealth, decay, death, freedom.
The narrator of The Cask of Amontillado.
Who is Montressaur?
When the audience knows more than the characters in the story, it leads to this.
A movement started during the first world war and characterized by formalism, symbolism, individualism, experimentation, and absurdity.
What is Modernism?
A playwright who used the Salem Witch Trials as a vehicle to talk about McCarthyism.
Who is Arthur Miller?
In "Bless Me, Ultima" Rudolfa Ayana creates an air of mystery and magic around Ultima by associating her with this color in her clothing.
What is the color black?
This is an example of Dramatic Irony in the Cask of Amontillado.
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"The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun, and now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music, and the opera of voices pitches a key higher." is an example of both _______ and ________. (Two types of one thing.)
What is Visual and Auditory imagery?
A movement that emphasized the nitty gritty side of American life, that held up everyday people and their struggles, and wrote about cities.
What is Realism?
The author who wrote southern gothic short stories with themes of religion.
Who is Flannery O'Conner?
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