He inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to create Sherlock Holmes.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
100
This book included the famous line, "Was anybody hurt? No ma'am, killed a n*****."
What is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
100
This period of American literature reflects a sense of disillusionment and loss of faith in the American dream.
What is Modernism?
100
The Great Migration took place and the "very air seemed charged with creativity."
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
100
The use of another's words or ideas, whether intentional or unintentional, and claiming them as your own.
What is plagiarism?
200
She was the first notable American poet.
Who is Anne Bradstreet?
200
This work repeated the following motto: "Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string."
What is Self-Reliance?
200
"He tried to poke them together again, but in spite of the tenseness of the effort, his shivering got away with him and the twigs were hopelessly scattered. Each twig gushed a puff of smoke and went out." In this passage from the _____ period, the writer views life as a losing battle against an uncaring universe.
What is Naturalism?
200
The battle gave everyone (especially the losing Union side) a taste of the reality of war, but it only marked the beginning.
What is the Battle of Bull Run?
200
Brainstorming, diagramming your thoughts with a web or other visual aid, and outlining those ideas for a writing.
What is pre-writing?
300
He advocated simple, mindful living and rejected a lifestyle dedicated to the pursuit of wealth.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
300
This text's conflict reaches its height with the following quote: "Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! ...I have given you my soul; leave me my name!"
What is The Crucible?
300
Writers from this time period, including Jonathan Edwards, William Bradford, and Anne Bradstreet, share religious enlightenment and provide a history of the time.
Who are the Early American Authors (the Puritans)?
300
"The idea that people are born with rights and freedoms and that it is the function of the government to protect those freedoms."
What is the Declaration of Independence?
300
This usually appears at the end of your first paragraph in a research paper, and should cover only what you will discuss in your paper.
What is a thesis statement?
400
Wrote "I heard a Fly buzz- when I died-"
Who is Emily Dickinson?
400
"As he is about to clasp her he feels a stunning blow upon the back of his neck; a blinding white light blazes all about him with a sound like the shock of a cannon- then all is darkness and silence"
What is An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge?
400
Themes of individualism and nature unified the writing of this era. This era included the opposing beliefs that people were inherently good and that each person had a dark side.
What is Romanticism?
400
An time in which a very small group of men controlled the vast majority of industry.
What is the Gilded Age?
400
Harris, Muriel. "Talk to Me: Engaging Reluctant Writers." A Tutor's Guide: Helping Writers One to One. Ed. Ben Rafoth. Portsmouth: Heinemann, 2000. 24-34. Print.
The above is an example of what this should look like.
What is a Works Cited reference?
500
He advised a president and helped recruit the first African-American soldiers for the Union army.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
500
"To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing."
Who is Mark Twain?
500
A new type of poetry characterized by common speech, exact words, precise, clear pictures.
What is Imagism?
500
In the 1700s, there was a burst of intellectual energy taking place in Europe where thinkers began to question previously accepted truths.
What is the Enlightenment?
500
Original sources of information; anything from firsthand documents, such as poems, diaries, court records, documents, and interviews to research results generated by experiments, surveys, etc.