Literature during this time period often focused on issues of human rights, especially of those who were held in bondage in the southern United States.
What is THE CIVIL WAR ERA (1850-1865)
100
After serving as an ambulance driver in WWI, he became famous for his realistic stories and spare writing style.
Who is ERNEST HEMINGWAY?
100
It is the term for "the central theme in a work of literature."
What is THEME?
100
It is the correct form of this sentence:
Everyone forgot their books.
What is EVERYONE FORGOT HIS (or HER) BOOK -or- ALL FORGOT THEIR BOOKS.
100
It is the unscrambled form of
AIDS A MAILBAG
What is ABIGAIL ADAMS?
200
Literature from this time period often assumed a perspective that the American Dream was dead.
What is THE MODERN ERA (1900 - 1945)
200
His autobiography--one of the earliest ones--showed that the American Dream was within everyone's reach.
Who is BENJAMIN FRANKLIN?
200
It is the vantage point from which a story is told.
What is POINT-OF-VIEW?
200
It is the correct form of this sentence: ONE OF THE GIRLS DROPPED THEIR BOOK.
What is ONE OF THE GIRLS DROPPED HER BOOK.
200
It is the unscrambled form of
REWASHING MY TEEN
What is ERNEST HEMINGWAY?
300
Writers during this period of American Literature moved away from a focus on duty to community and instead looked at ways to improve the self, often through transcendentalism.
What is THE NEW ENGLAND RENAISSANCE (1800 - 1960)?
300
More than any other Modernist writer, his works became synonymous with "The Jazz Age."
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
300
This is the term for a character that appears again and again in different works of literature and might be "the villain," "the bully," or "the grandma."
What is a STOCK CHARACTER?
300
It is the correct form of this sentence: SOME OF THE MARBLES ARE ON THE FLOOR.
What is SOME OF THE MARBLES ARE ON THE FLOOR (It was already correct).
300
It is the unscrambled form of
JOINT MATH SPINACH
What is CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH?
400
Literature from this time period often included a lot of regionalism as readers in the East enjoyed contact with exotic or far away locations.
What is FRONTIERS (1860 - 1900)?
400
He wrote in the third person about himself and his adventures in founding the Jamestown colony.
Who is CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH?
400
This is the term for the implied emotional attitude toward the reader or the subject.
What is TONE?
400
It is the correct form of the following sentence:
One should not worry too much about their past mistakes.
What is
ONE SHOULD NOT WORRY TOO MUCH ABOUT HIS PAST MISTAKES.
400
It is the unscrambled form of
GRIDDLECAKES FOURS
What is FREDERICK DOUGLASS?
500
American literature during this period often explored the philosophies and ideas of the European Enlightenment.
What is THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION (1750 - 1800)?
500
During the colonization of the New World, this priest wrote in support of the Native Americans who were being pressed into slavery.
Who is BARTOLOME DE LAS CASAS?
500
You'll never guess this one in a million years!
What is HYPERBOLE?
500
Pronouns must agree with their antecedents in number, gender, and THIS.