Authors
Works
Literary Periods
Genres & Features
Movements & Context
5

Who wrote “Of Plymouth Planatation”?

William Bradford

5

What is the title of Anne Bradstreet’s work listed on the Colonial New England?  

The Tenth Muse

5

Which period on your PPT is dated 1492–1620?  

Literature of Exploration

5

On the Exploration, name one genre listed: letters, journals, reports, and which other type of narrative?

Captivity narratives

5

On the Colonial New England context, what phrase describes the Puritan goal for their colony—“city upon a ___”?  

Hill

10

Who preached the sermon “A Model of Christian Charity”?

John Winthrop

10

What is the title of Jonathan Edwards’s famous sermon?

“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”

10

 Which period on your PPT is dated 1620–1760s?  

Colonial Period in New England

10

On the Colonial New England features, what style is Puritan writing said to use: plain or ornate?  

plain

10

On the Enlightenment context, colonists are said to absorb ideas of reason, natural rights, and what kind of “contracts”?

Social Contracts

15

Which author on the Romantic slides wrote “The Scarlet Letter”?

Nathaniel Hawthorne

15

What is the title of the poetry collection by Phillis Wheatley on the Enlightenment?

Poems on Various Subjects

15

Which period on your PPT is dated 1700–1815?

The American Enlightenment

15

On the Enlightenment features, what word describes the style: rational, orderly, and what?

Persuasive

15

On the Romantic context, what movement is said to emerge, “stressing spiritual intuition”?

Transcendentalism

20

Which realist writer on your slides wrote “The Rise of Silas Lapham” ?  

William Dean Howells

20

What is the title of Walt Whitman’s book of poems shown on the Romantic?

 Leaves of Grass

20

Which period on your PPT is dated 1820–1865?

The Romantic Period

20

On the Romantic features, Romantic style is described as emotionally charged, symbolic, and often what kind of or sublime?

Gothic

20

On the Realist context, after which major American war does Realism begin?  

The Civil War

25

Which modernist writer on your slides wrote The Sound and the Fury?  

William Faulkner

25

What modernist novel title on your slide is associated with Zora Neale Hurston?

Their Eyes Were Watching God

25

Which period on your PPT is dated 1914–1945?

Modernism and Experimentation

25

On the Modernism features, name one of the three techniques: stream of consciousness, fragmentation, or shifting what?

Shifting Narrators

25

On the Modernism, name one historical event listed besides World War I.  

Jazz Age / Great Depression / World War II

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