List one characteristic of Native American literature.
Oral tradition (storytelling)
Respect for nature
100
Rationalism was also known as what?
The Age of Reason.
100
Name one historical influence of Romanticism.
Westward expansion
Industrialization
100
a fictional story that explains a natural phenomenon (or how something became what it is; mountain, sun, rain)
What is a myth?
100
This is the way a piece of writing sounds.
What is tone.
200
Why did the Puritans value education and the ability to read and write?
So they could read the bible.
200
What are two characteristics of Rationalist writing?
Non-Fiction
-letters
-speeches
-pamplets
200
What did Rationalists believe about poetry?
It was the highest form of expression.
200
This is the way you feel when you read a piece of writing.
What is mood.
200
A reference to a person, place, or time in history or literature.
What is an allusion?
300
What is predestination?
The belief that one's fate has already been decided.
300
What were two historical influences of Rationalism?
The Revolutionary War
The Constitution (development of democracy)
300
Who was the American Romantic Hero?
young, or possesses youthful qualities
has a sense of honor based on some higher principle
intuitive (spidey-sense)
likes nature better than the city
300
A short, but wise saying about life.
What is an Aphorism?
300
The dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
400
What were some characteristics of Puritan writing?
Non-Fiction (
-hymns
-journals
-biorgaphies
400
What are two characteristics of the Rationalist time period?
Valued logic and reason over faith
Believed science would further human progress
400
What is the difference between Romantic writing and Dark Romanticism?
Dark Romantics explored the harm of extreme individualism
Stories were usually gothic (dark, scary) and had elements of supernatural.
400
A question that does not require an answer.
What is a rhetorical question?
400
Where the writer uses similar grammatical structure.
What is parallelism?
500
Explain one similarity and one difference between the Native Americans and Puritans.
Answers will vary. (Both believed in hard work; Puritans believed in formal religion while Native Americans believed in nature/spiritual).
500
Name two important people, either political or literary, during the Rationalist time period.
Ben Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
500
Who were two famous Transcendentalists and what did they believe?
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau
-belief that every person is a part of nature and the OVER-SOUL
-respect for individual and nature
-believed in NON-CONFORMITY