Author/Text Match
Who wrote "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"?
Jonathon Edwards
What literary era emphasizes the darker side of human nature and the past sins of the nation?
The Gothic (or Dark Romanticism)
"For nonconformity, the world whips you with its displeasure"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance"
The key setting of "Rappacinni's Daughter" is:
A Garden
Who wrote "His Excellency George Washington?"
Phillis Wheatley
John Locke and Thomas Paine fall into what era of philosophy/literature that emphasizes reason and rationality?
The Enlightenment Era or The Age of Reason
"Young Goodman Brown" represents Hawthorne's critique of what faith system?
Puritanism
Who wrote a letter to Queen Anne about Pocahontas?
John Smith
Individual divinity and Nature are core ideas of this kind of philosophy/literature:
Transcendentalism
Who wrote "Rip Van Winkle"?
Washington Irving
This kind of literature is instructive and reinforces the authority of the church:
Puritan
Who wrote The Destruction of the Indies?
Bartolome De las Casas
This kind of literature preserves cultural traditions and mythologies and is always adapting
Indigenous Oral Literature
"These are the times that try men's souls."
Thomas Paine, The Crisis No.1