Stories
A story; a spoken or written account of a connected event.
What is a narrative?
The transmission of cultural knowledge through spoken word from one generation to the next.
What is oral tradition?
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink is an example of this type of writing that Ben Franklin was famous for.
What is an aphorism?
This type of literature involves a person exploring their inner self through nature.
What is transcendentalism?
Who is the author of The Great Gatsby?
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
The point of highest tension and drama in a story, which often marks the turning point.
What is the climax?
Harmony/balance, Interconnectedness of all things, and nature are major themes in this type of literature.
What is Native American?
Ethos, Pathos, and Logos are these, which are used in rhetoric.
What are appeals?
This man is considered to be one of the most influential figures of the Transcendentalist movement, and he wrote a work that inspired the formation of the Transcendentalist Club.
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
A cultural, artistic, and literary movement centered in this area in the 1920s that celebrated African American identity.
What is Harlem, New York?
A story based on the author's own life experiences (A form of nonfiction told from the narrator's perspective).
What is a personal narrative?
The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller in 1953, is an allegory for these historical events.
What is The Red Scare and McCarthyism?
This literary period came after and was a reaction against The Age of Enlightenment.
What is Romanticism?
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is from this literary period.
What is Realism?
The Harlem Renaissance is part of which literary period?
What is Modernism?
The sequence of events that make up a story.
What is the plot?
The protagonist (the central character and tragic hero) from The Crucible.
Who is John Proctor?
Edgar Allan Poe often uses this type of narrator in his works.
What is an unknown/unnamed narrator?
Realist authors sought to portray this as it really was, with a focus on ordinary people and everyday experiences.
What is life?
The point of view from which The Great Gatsby is told.
What is 1st person?
The purpose of an argumentative essay.
What is to persuade?
The witch trials that were the subject of The Crucible took place in this town and year.
What is Salem in 1692?
This man wrote the famous works titled The Crisis and Common Sense.
Who is Thomas Paine?
A philosophical movement that valued self-reliance, nonconformity, and insight through nature.
What is Transcendentalism?
The American Dream is a major theme in this famous literary work.
What is The Great Gatsby?