Native Americans and Puritans
A creation myth of the Native American tribe Iroquois.
What is The World on the Turtles Back?
This was taken out of the final draft of the Declaration of Independence
Slavery
A famous author during the Gothic era.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
They would never conform with the masses?
What is Transcendentalism?
Stereotypical character types.
What is an archtype?
Modesty, Fearing God, and Simplicity what these people believed in.
What is Puritans?
Abraham Lincoln's death is the metaphor.
What is O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman.
Description of gothic literature.
What are texts that explore the supernatural and humanity's dark side?
Emerson and Thoreau.
Who are the two main authors during transcendentalism?
Persuasive techniques.
What is Rhetoric?
How Native Americans kept track of long stories.
What is drums and other instruments for rhythm?
The speech that honored the fallen men in the Civil War.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This story was set during the Spanish Inquisition.
What is The Pit and the Pendulum?
Walden's central message.
What is to live simply, independently, and wisely.
What is Tone?
Johnathan Edwards sermon used these techniques.
What is ethos, pathos, logos, and imagery?
Give me Liberty or Give me Death and The Crisis.
What are the two texts that sparked the American Revolution?
The woman lost her mind due to being cooped up in her room in hopes of curing her illness.
What is The Yellow Wallpaper?
Humans are innately good, intuition trumps logic and experience, idealism and self-reliance.
What are the beliefs of transcendentalism?
The Author of "Upon the Burning of Our House"?
Who is Anne Bradstreet?
Argumentative appeals (Ethos, Pathos, Logos)
What are techniques used to persuade people into thinking, believing, and/or doing something?
Puritans were responsible for this dark period of colonial New England .
This was the embodiment of the plague.
The 5 I's.
What are Intuition, Imagination, Inspiration, Idealism, and Individuality?
The timeline of American Literature discussed in Semester 1.
What is Native American, Puritan, Colonial/ Early American History, American Romanticism, Gothic, and Transcendentalism Literature?