He invented the Short Story.
Washington Irving.
Who invented the detective story?
Edgar Allan Poe
I become a _______________ ________________. Emerson claimed this when he describes going out into nature and thinking of fundamental philosophy.
Transparent Eyeball.
What is his most popular poem?
"Song of Myself"
This principle states that all details should be important to the plot.
Chekov's Gun
Geoffrey Crayon is getting this information from this Antiquarian. (He is the reason why they are called The New York Knicks)
Diedrich Knickerbocker.
Poe wrote this many novels.
1.
He wrote "Walden" which was based off his two year stay in the woods.
Henry David Thoreau
He volunteered as a _________ during the civil war.
Nurse
Whitman invented this to simulate God's/ Transparent Eyeball's vision.
Poetic Catalogues.
Name Ichabod Crane's love interest.
Catrina Van Tassel
Name an oxymoron from "The Minister's Black Veil." (Think about how he is described)
Sad Smile, Melancholy Smile.
This is the document that both Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. read in order to understand how a non-violent rebellion could be conducted.
"Civil Disobedience."
What does the child ask him in Verse VI in "Song of Myself?"
What is the Grass?
Edgar Allan Poe wrote: "The Black Cat" for this social/ political movement.
The Temperance Movement.
This story is about a man who talks to a book. They talk about how must books are lost to history.
"The Mutability of Literature"
Why does Hawthorne have a "W?"
His Grandfather.
With the two Transcendentalists, who was the teacher and who was the student.
Emerson taught Thoreau.
Speak his neologism.
Yawp!
Name an Early Characteristic of American Literature.
Scenery, Colonial History, Local History.
He is considered the Poet of the American Revolution. He wrote "The Wild Honey Suckle."
Phillip Freneau
What does "Gaily Bedight" mean.
Well Dressed, Well made-up.
Which poet is thought to be the outcome of transcendentalism?
Whitman.
This poem is one of the only depressing poems that he wrote. It is an old lonely man talking to the air.
"To the Sun-Set Breeze"
Ambrose Bierce famously disappeared while covering this war?
The Mexican American War.