The Colonial Period
Who is the author of Of Plymouth Plantation?
William Bradford.
Which author kept a daily record of his activities and errors to strive for moral perfection?
Benjamin Franklin
Wrote the poem, "The Raven"
Edgar Allan Poe
How many of Emily Dicksinson's poems were published in her lifetime?
Less than twelve
a simple slab of slate is considered what type of literary device?
Alliteration.
Jonathan Edwards wrote a sermon called,
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
Thomas Jefferson.
Why was Whitman ashamed of "O Captain, my Captain"?
It has rhyme and meter.
Which author came in (born) and went out (died) with the arrival of Haley's Comet?
Mark Twain
The scarlet letter or the scaffold are what literary device?
Symbolism.
What type of government did they Puritans hope to establish in the New World?
Theorcracy.
Where was Philis Wheatley born?
Africa.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What is a characteristic of O. Henry's writing?
What type of sentence is:
I enjoyed reading The Crucible, however, Our Town makes me sad.
Declarative/Compound
What is Anne Bradstreet's literary distinction in American history?
She is the first poet.
Which Revolutionary author was truly a Christian?
Philis Wheatley.
Which author's ancestors resided over the Salem Witch Trials?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Which realist author was known as the "American Dickens" and "The Father of the Modern Short Story?"
Bret Harte
May would have certainly called him common-looking.
Identify the bolded word.
Participle.
Which American movement is Johnathon Edwards associated with?
The First Great Puritan Revival
The Great Awakening
Purused the "American Dream"
Benjamin Franklin
Transcendentalists believe . . .
In the Over-soul
Green Apple Theory
In "The Luck of the Roaring Camp" who is Cherokee Sal?
the only woman in the camp, town prostitute, dies giving birth
A transitive verb must have a?
All linking verbs are?
Direct Object.
Intransitive.