Native American and Puritan Literature
Rationalism
Romanticism
Literary Terms
Literary Terms
100
List one characteristic of Native American literature.
Oral tradition (storytelling) Respect for nature Creation myths/origin myths
100
Rationalism was also known as what?
The Age of Reason.
100
Name one historical influence of Romanticism.
Westward expansion Industrialization (industrial revolution)
100
a fictional story that explains a natural phenomenon (or how something became what it is; mountain, sun, rain)
What is a myth?
100
Is the author's implied attitude toward the audience or subject.
What is tone.
200
What did the Puritans believe about man ?
Man is inherently sinful
200
What are two types of Rationalist writing?
Non-Fiction -letters -speeches -pamplets
200
Name the 2 branches of the Romantic Period.
Dark Romanticism Transcendentalism
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 original sin?
When Eve took the apple and caused the first sin of Man and it is why women are more likely to be tempted by the devil.
300
Give a characteristic of Rationalism?
God created universe but does not interfere with it People are basically good People arrive at the truth via logic and reasoning
300
Name two characteristics of the Romantic Period?
common man hero values intuition over reason likes nature better than the city Imagination Supernatural/mysterious inspiration (God) in nature
300
A figure of speech in which the writer or speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it really is.
What is an Understatement?
300
The dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
400
What were some characteristics of Puritan writing?
Non-Fiction ( -hymns -journals -biographies -sermons -plain style
400
The famous speech with the line "Give me Liberty or Give me Death" was given by?
Patrick Henry
400
What is the difference between Romantic writing and Dark Romanticism?
Dark Romantics explored the harm of extreme individualism explored dark side of humanity (insanity/depression/alcoholism/ etc.) 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. EX: I came, I saw, I conquered.
What is parallelism?
500
The Play "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller represents which Literary time period?
Puritianism
500
Name two mportant people, either political or literary, during the Rationalist time period.
Ben Franklin Thomas Jefferson Patrick Henry
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 - self reliance -believed in NON-CONFORMITY
500
The emotional attachment to a word.
What is connotation?
500
Words with similar but not exact sounds. Ex: bone and moon ill and shell soul and all
What is slant rhyme?
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