Native Americans & Puritans
Romanticism
Renaissance
New American Poets
Literary Elements
100
These people believed that God was involved in their daily lives and cared about their thoughts and actions.
Who were the Puritans?
100
If it is Romantic literature, it's not about LOVE; it's about this:
What is Nature?
100
The time period that we call The American Renaissance.
What is 1840-1860? (Or what is the last 20 years of the Romantic Period?)
100
This poet's work did not become famous until after the poet's death.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
100
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, *Bonus for Author and / or title
What is internal rhyme? ("The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe)
200
These people have a long history and a culture of oral storytelling.
Who are the Native Americans?
200
Poets whose work was read at night after supper for family entertainment (since they didn't have cable yet). Extra point for naming any of them.
Who were The Fireside Poets? (Holmes, Longfellow, Lowell, and Whittier)
200
The optimistic writers, Emerson and Thoreau, who believed that society was getting better and better...
Who were the Transcendentalists?
200
This poet worked odd jobs, traveled, and paid to publish his own work.
Who is Walt Whitman?
200
"To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion wiwth her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness and a smile *Bonus for title and / or author
What is personification? ("Thanatopsis" by William Cullen Bryant)
300
The belief held by the Puritans that God chose some to go to heaven and not others
What is election?
300
Characters in Romantic literature escape in three ways:
What are the past, the exotic, or the supernatural?
300
The writers of this period who were Romantic in that they wrote about nature, the exotic, and the supernatural, but thought it was important to address the sin, pain, and death in the world were called this.
Who were the Dark Romantics?
300
This poet invented free verse.
Who is Walt Whitman?
300
The entire poem, "The Chambered Nautilus" is this: *Bonus point for Author
What is an extended metaphor? author - Oliver Wendell Holmes
400
In "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," Jonathan Edwards used this ( ___ ) to create frightening mental pictures and ideas in the minds of his audience.
What is figurative language? ( or imagery)
400
Rip Van Winkle was this, because he escaped from his wife to the woods, he met strange little men in the woods who drank strange ale that put Rip to sleep, and he had a major wish fulfilled.
What is a Romantic Hero?
400
The source of the quote: "To be great is to be misunderstood"
Who is Emerson? (OR) What is "Self-Reliance?"
400
This poet invented slant rhyme.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
400
"Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee, Child of the wandering sea, Cast from her lap forlorn! *Bonus for Title and/or author
What is apostrophe (speaking to a person or thing and not expecting an answer)? *"The Chambered Nautilus" by Oliver Wendell Holmes
500
In Anne Bradstreet's poetry she uses this technique of rearranging words out of their natural order to preserve the rhyme and/or rhythm of the poem.
What is inversion?
500
Why wouldn't the Puritans like William Cullen Bryant's poem, "Thanatopsis"?
He presented the view that death is not scary for anyone. He did not mention Heaven or Hell, but talked about joining all the people who have died before us. The Puritans did not believe that.
500
This essay by Thoreau influenced Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ghandi.
What is "Resistance to Civil Government?"
500
Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson were different from all the other poets of their time because they did NOT use these... (which is why we study them separately)
What are European poetic forms? (such as sonnets, odes, iambic pentameter, etc.)
500
"If God should only withdraw His hand from the floodgate, it would immediately fly open, and the fiery floods of the fierceness and wrath of God, would rush forth with inconceivable fury...." There are three literary elements here. Name at least two. *Bonus for title and / or author
What are alliteration, synecdoche, and metaphor? *"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards
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