This writer wrote one of the first pieces of American colonial literature, an account of the first year of Plymouth Plantation, using language and examples from the Old Testament to color his account.
Who is William Bradford?
100
An issue that reasonable people might disagree about.
What is a substantive issue?
100
Emerson and Thoreau.
Who are the founders of Transcendentalism?
100
This forms the foundation for most of Melville's major literary works.
What is his life experience as a sailor?
100
Did you hear what he said it?
What is remove the "it".
200
This poetic device consists in two lines of iambic pentameter with end rhyme.
What is a couplet?
200
Internal and external are two forms of this essential element of a short story.
What is conflict?
200
The spiritual is more important than the physical, nature is good, human nature is fundamentally good, knowledge comes from independent reasoning, and individualism.
What are the five major principles of Transcendentalism?
200
Slavery, morality, and society are three of these.
What are the major issues Melville was concerned with?
200
The neighborhood, that I grew up in, is lovely.
What is remove the commas.
300
The purpose of Thomas Paine's The American Crisis was to persuade readers to this course of action.
What is to fight bravely against the British?
300
These are the parts of a short story.
What are exposition, rising action, climax, resolution, falling action, and possibly epilogue?
300
By focusing on individualism, this writer inspired many others to original projects, particularly Walt Whitman's poetic inventions in Leaves of Grass.
Who is Emerson?
300
Babo and Hautboy are two Melvillian characters who best display this side of Transcendentalism.
What is individualism?
300
Santa Clause who is a fat elf gives presents.
What is insert commas.
400
This writer of Gothic horror used disturbed characters and suspenseful stories to break with European styles.
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
400
For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn.
What is the shortest short story in the world, written by Ernest Hemingway?
400
He wanted to improve society, and by leaving it for a time he conducted the experiment of whether it could be done away with entirely.
What is Thoreau's purpose for living in the forest near Walden pond?
400
Captain Delano's communication to his servants mostly through Babo is an example of what religious imagery?
What is God communicating through Jesus and his apostles?
400
The one gives extra information, and the other gives identifying information.
What is the difference between nonidentifying and identifying adjective clauses?
500
The first used the Old Testament to explain features of his present reality, especially from the story of Moses, while the second alludes to an afterlife using ideas from the New Testament.
What is compare the use of religion in History of Plymoth Plantation and To My Dear and Loving Husband?
500
In this part of an essay, support for opposing arguments are examined and removed, but it must be constructed fairly.
What is the counterclaim paragraph?
500
Society is corrupt, but this doesn't matter; individualism is true insofar as we are all subservient to God; and the spiritual is of far greater value than the material.
What is Emily Dickinson's likely interpretation of Transcendentalism?
500
Captain Delano's "undistrustful" nature in Benito Cereno is a critique of this.
What is social morality?
500
The cookies that are in the cookie jar cannot be eaten.