Eras
Authors
Themes
Literary Devices
Content
100

Chivalry

Medieval

100

supreme poet of nature

Wordsworth

100

Happiness comes from moderation and order

Ode on Solitude

100

speaking to an inanimate object or idea

apostrophe

100
What does Anne Bradstreet compare her poetry to?

a child

200

Deism

Restoration/Neoclassical

200

first African-American poet published

Phillis Wheatley

200

God's mercy and judgment for sin

"Sinners in the Hands"

200
metaphor of an object with spiritual qualities

metaphysical conceit

200

Johnson's goals for the fiction writer

understand your audience, show vice for vice, depict reality

300

Primitivism

Romantic

300

famous colonial preacher

Jonathan Edwards

300

Restlessness Bring man to God.

"The Pulley"

300

repetition in successive lines

anaphora

300

Benjamin Franklin admitted that this was the hardest virtue to subdue

pride

400

Sola Scriptura

Puritan

400

wrote a dictionary

Samuel Johnson

400

nature's destructive and preservative power

"Ode to the West Wind"

400

referring to a previous time in history, Greek mythology, or the Bible

allusion

400

ideas discussed in Letters from an American Farmer

American freedoms/responsibilities 

500

Rationalism

Restoration/Neoclassical

500

metaphysical poets

Donne and Herbert

500

Art preserves beauty.

"Ode on a Grecian Urn"

500

contradictory terms used to express a higher truth

paradox

500

Pictures that were discussed in "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

young couple, tree

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