The Tell Tale Heart
Edgar Allan Poe
"The Wasteland"
T.S. Eliot
Generall Historie of Virginia and the Summer Isles
John Smith
This author spoke of living freely and practicing civil disobedience when the need arises.
Henry David Thoreau
If you have any Common Sense, you might be able to guess this author who paved way for the American Revolution.
Thomas Paine
Young Goodman Brown
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Hills like White Elephants"
Ernest Hemingway
In linguistics, the _____ of a natural language is its set of structural constraints on speakers' or writers' composition of clauses, phrases, and words.
Colonial Literature pays little mind to this...
Grammar
This 'whale' of an author was at the forefront of Dark Romanticism
Herman Melville
Not often known for his contributions as an author, this man heroically died at the Alamo. He also served for Tennessee in the House of Representatives.
Davy Crockett
Walden
Henry David Thoreau
"Story of an Hour"
Kate Chopin
The Century in which Colonial Literature originated.
17th Century
His name is actually Samuel Langhorne Clemons
Mark Twain
The state that many authors of the Romantic Era originated from. Concord, a city of this state, is one of the hubs of American Literature.
Massachusetts
"I Felt a Funeral in my Brain" & "Hope is the Thing with Feathers"
Emily Dickinson
"The Road Not Taken"
Robert Frost
Themes associated with Colonial Literature
Religion, propaganda, accounts of societal formations
Years that American Literature was occurring in the United States.
1820-1865
Author of Self-Reliance
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
"Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night"
Dylan Thomas
These United States Presidents contributed heavily to the popularity of Colonial Literature
George Washington and Thomas Jefferson
An act that many Transcendentalists spoke freely on. They thought there was no place for this in America.
Abolition of slavery
Modernism is a reaction to this British Literary movement.
Victorian Literature