Indigenous Lit
What is often the first story of societies?
Creation Story
What document is known as the world's greatest break-up letter?
The Declaration of Independence
What fallacy is a “personal attack rather than arguing the point?”
Ad hominem
Who is the most popular author of American gothic literature?
Edgar Allen Poe
Which city borough was the center of an explosion of black culture?
Harlem
After the Indian Removal Act and the Trail of Tears, indigenous people were placed on what?
Reservations
Who was the author of a majority of the Federalist Papers and recently had a musical produced about his life?
Alexander Hamilton
What fallacy is “solutions are rejected because they are not perfect?”
Nirvana Fallacy
In short, what is an envelope story?
A story within a story
What two events contributed to the start of the Harlem Renaissance?
The end of WWI and the Great Migration
Who were the first group of people to settle on North America from Europe?
The Pilgrims
What document begins with “We the People of the United States of America…”?
The Constitution
What are the 3 elements of the Rhetorical Triangle?
Ethos, Pathos, and Logos
Often cited as the inspiration for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi, what essay did Henry David Thoreau write to explain how to resist unjust governments?
Civil Disobedience
What document was written and enforced after the end of WWI?
Treaty of Versailles
John Smith could be called this kind of narrator.
Unreliable narrator
Who announced, "Give me Liberty or Give Me Death?"
Patrick Henry
This is an example of what fallacy?
Me: “I like Chinese more than Pizza”
Friend: “Well, you must hate Pizza”
Strawman Fallacy
In The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe, what item does Montresor pull from his cloak that foreshadows the ending?
A trowel
What form of poetry is a 'snapshot' of a scene?
Impressionism
What aspect of life is common in indigenous literature?
Nature
Benjamin Franklin, Robert Livingston, Roger Sherman, Thomas Jefferson, and who else drafted the Declaration of Independence?
John Adams
This is an example of what fallacy?
“We're innocent because the Report says we did no wrong.”
Begging the Question
What’s the difference between symbolism and allegory?
The whole article vs. only a portion
Who wrote, "I remember the very day that I became colored?"
Zora Neale Hurston