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Potpourri
100

This is who the Puritans were looking to escape religious persecution from.

Who is The Church of England?

100

This is a comparison of two things WITHOUT using 'like' or 'as.'

What is a metaphor?

100

This is the historical era that Romanticism was a response to.

What is the Age of Reason?

100

This is the name of the person who wrote A Dream Deferred.

Who is Langston Hughes?
100

This is a meeting at an arranged place and time. 

What is a rendezvous?

200

This is another name that the Puritans called themselves, referring to their pilgrimage, or spiritual journey leaving England.

What are Pilgrims?
200

This the repetition of the beginning sounds of words.

What is alliteration?

200

These structures became a sort of mascot for Gothic architecture based on the way they looked.

What are gargoyles?

200

This is the play that got its title from a line in the poem A Dream Deferred.

What is A Raisin in the Sun?
200

This is when human qualities are given to an object or idea.

What is personification?

300

This is the idea that God had already decided, before a person was born, whether they were going to Heaven or Hell.

What is predestination?

300

This is the rhetorical device that uses logic to appeal to an audience. 

What is Logos?

300

These two types of writing are what Edgar Allan Poe was a master of.

What are poems and short stories?

300

This is the cultural movement that flourished in the 1920s and presented the artistic works of African Americans. 

What is the Harlem Renaissance?

300

This is how male characters are described in Gothic Literature.

What is insane and tormented by their past?

400

This is the name of the person who wrote Of Plymouth Plantation.

Who is William Bradford?

400

This is the rhetorical device that uses emotions to try and persuade the audience.

What is Pathos?

400

Female characters in Gothic literature were often described as this...

What is beautiful and dead or dying?

400

This is the writing tool that uses visually descriptive and figurative language to create a mental picture. 

What is imagery?

400

This is the main idea of the poem A Dream Deferred.

What is there are negative consequences when your dreams are put on hold?

500

Puritan writing came, primarily, in these two forms. 

What are journals and histories?

500

This is the name of the person who gave the "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" speech AND where he was when he gave the speech.

Who is Patrick Henry and the Second Virginia Convention?

500

This is what Edgar Allan Poe believed revealed your true nature.

What is terror?

500

This is the movement that was rooted in the effort to end racial oppression and abolish the institution of slavery.

What is the Civil Rights Movement?
500

This is the idea and mentality that people should be able to make a living to support their family. 

What is the American Dream?
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