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
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? or creation/origin myth
100
This is the way a piece of writing sounds and the the author's attitude toward the topic
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 Romantics 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 common man flawed but high morals
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 -biographies sermons
400
What are two characteristics of the Rationalist time period?
Valued logic and reason over faith Believed science would further human progress people were basically good
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. nature was symbolic of human spirit insanity/depression/addiction were topics
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 Patrick Henry Thomas Paine
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 simplicity rejection of materialism
500
The emotional attachment to a word.
What is connotation?
500
Words with similar but not exact sounds.
What is slant rhyme?
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