Authors
Washington Irving wrote this satirical tale.
What is "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"?
The work that contains this phrase: “I would prefer not to.”
This period is characterized by highly religious language, especially sermons and poetry.
What is "The Colonial Period"?
The Puritans were a sect of this church.
What is "The Church of England" or "Anglican Church"?
This covers the House of Usher (the actual building).
What is fungi?
Roger Williams wrote this tract and distributed it in England just before returning to America--causing quite a stir.
What is "The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution"?
The work that contains this passage: "This rampant hag, Martha Carrier, was the person of whom the confessions of the witches, and of her own children among the rest, agreed that the devil had promised her she should be Queen of Hebrews.”
What is "Wonders of the Invisible World?"
This literary period is characterized by discovery, the charting of new territory (often driven by Catholic and Protestant competition), and first encounters with Native Americans.
What is the Age of Exploration?
During Romantic Period, this genre was considered the essential American form of literature.
What is the "short story"?
In "Young Goodman Brown," the Devil gives this to Goody Cloyse so she can fly.
What is "his serpent staff"?
He wrote "Self-Reliance," a Transcendentalist essay about intellectual freedom.
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
The work that contains this passage: "Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.”
What is "Self-Reliance"?
This literary period is characterized by deeply-felt emotional language, a reverence for nature, and a distrust of human society.
What is the "Romantic Period"?
This group of noblemen (who were loyal to the crown during the English Civil War) are responsible for settling the southern territories of the US and are its greatest cultural influence.
Who are "the cavaliers"?
Thomas Granger is hanged for this sin and was one of the first people to be executed in the English-speaking New World.
What is buggery?
John Smith primarily wrote this as propaganda to get young men to come to the New World.
What is "A Description of New England"?
The work that contains this passage: "God requireth not a uniformity of religion to be enacted and enforced in any civil state; which enforced uniformity (sooner or later) is the greatest occasion of civil war, ravishing of conscience, persecution of Christ Jesus in his servants, and of the hypocrisy and destruction of millions of souls.”
What is "The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution"?
The Enlightenment thinkers, sick of all the religious controversies in Europe, tried to base all morality on these; it was thought people were endowed with these by God, the Great Clock-Maker.
What are "rights" or "natural rights"?
She was the first published author in New England.
Who is Anne Bradstreet?
In "The Birthmark," Aminadab represents this.
What is "the physical nature?" or "the body"?
He wrote "The Second Letter to the Spanish Crown," describing in great detail his escapades in the New World.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
The work that contains this passage: “These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.”
What is "The American Crisis"?
Enlightenment/Revolutionary Literature esteems this ability or capacity above all else; it is embodied in the art and symmetrical architecture of the day, but especially in political pamphlets.
What is "reason"?
Transcendentalism was an outgrowth of this unorthodox church.
What is "the Unitarian Church"?
Bartleby lives on this food.
What is a "ginger nut"?