Quote
"It was hope...that whispers to the death-condemned even in the dungeons of the Inquisition."
"The Pit and the Pendulum"
What character slept for twenty years?
Rip Van Winkle
Who was the educator who compiled America's first dictionary?
Noah Webster
"The bumble iz a kind ov big big fly"
dialect
motivation reveals character
"The Great Carbuncle"
"Being thus arrived in a good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of Heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean."
Of Plymouth Plantation
What character found the Great Carbuncle?
Matthew and Hannah
Who was the first American writer to become famous throughout the world?
Washington Irving
"The light did spy,
...my heart did cry"
end rhyme
the power of words
"A Jingle of Words"
"They struck their jaws together so close to my ears as almost to stun me, and I expected every moment to be dragged out of the boat and instantly devoured."
"An Escape from Alligators"
What character tells her sister-in-law that the Smith family is ruthless?
Leonora Thorpe
Who is the author of "Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning"?
Mark Twain
"I blest His name that gave and took"
allusion
love of American places
"American Names"
"I did not bid her draw off her glove as sometime I had done. Her dress was not so clean as sometime it had been. Jehovah jireh!"
"The Courtship of Madam Winthrop"
What character recounted a frog story?
Simon Wheeler
Who wrote "On Being Brought from Africa to America?
Phillis Wheatley
"Gallants, attend, and hear a friend
Trill forth harmonious ditty:
Strange things I'll tell, which late befell
In Philadelphia city."
ballad
God's amazing love
"Meditation One"
"Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain."
The Author to Her Book
What character wanted to kill John Smith?
Powhatan
Who wrote the quote, "Lord, blow the coal, Thy love enflame in me"?
Edward Taylor
"Lord, blow the coal, Thy love enflame in me."
conceit
poet's inadequacies
"The Author to Her Book"