Early American Writers
Literary Devices
Death
Authors
Dark Romanticism
100
God controls everything
What is a Puritan belief?
100
“...The wrath of God is like great waters that are dammed for the present;"
What is a simile
100
"Because I could not stop for death/He kindly stopped for me"
What is personification
100
the seclusion of oneself in avoidance of others
What is a recluse
100
-eerie -dark -mysterious
What is Dark Romantic settings
200
topics rooted in Bible principles texts about salvation and the dependance on God
What is one religious characteristic that all Early American writings have?
200
“...the flames gather and flash about them, and would fain lay hold on them, and swallow them up…”
What is personification
200
-negative -positive -neutral
What is tone
200
the term used to describe Jonathan Edwards' style of sermons?
What is fire and brimstone
200
-prone to sin -fallible
What is Dark Romantic Characters
300
Persecution
What is being tortured for your beliefs called?
300
“...The bow of God’s wrath is bent, and the arrow made ready on the string, and justice bends the arrow at your heart..."
What is metaphor
300
"The stillness in the room/Was like the stillness in the air"
What is a simile
300
-well-educated -wealthy -middle child
What is Emily Dickinson
300
-supernatural evils -death
What is Dark Romantic themes
400
sermons diaries histories
What is the most common genre of writing for Early Americans?
400
“I wandered lonely as a cloud/That floats on high o'er vales and hills”
What is simile
400
"Gazing Grain/...Setting Sun"
What is Alliteration
400
-struggled with the death of family members -died at age 40 -wrote of characters with psychological issues
What is Edgar A. Poe
400
Dark Romantic theme
What is hacking up a body into little pieces and burying the corpse under the floorboards
500
1741
What is the date that Jonathan Edwards wrote "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"?
500
“And so, as kinsmen met a night, We talked between the rooms,”
What is simile
500
-flies -decay -mortal -funeral
What is words associated with death
500
-Rip van Winkle -Dietrich Knickerbocker -Jonathan Oldstyle -Geoffrey Crayon
What is Washington Irving pseudonyms
500
"When Tom reached home he found the black print of a finger burnt, as it were, into his forehead, which nothing could obliterate."
What is Dark Romantic themes
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