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The author of The Great Gatsby
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
A literary device that compares two unlike things
What is a metaphor?
"They're such beautiful shirts. It makes me sad because I've never seen such -- such beautiful shirts before."
What is a quote from Daisy Buchanan?
A long poem featuring a black bird which repeatedly tells the narrator he will never stop mourning the loss of his love.
What is Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"?
The prominent literary period between 1800-1860.
What is American Romanticism?
Is generally responsible for the idea of "survival of the fittest"
Who is Charles Darwin?
Is the idea that the universe/nature is God.
What is pantheism?
“Why… was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and trees? Was I brought here merely to have my nose dragged away as I was about to nibble the sacred cheese of life?"
What is a quote from the narrator of "The Open Boat"?
One of the first American short stories with a round character.
What is "Rip Van Winkle"?
Literary period of disillusionment after the American Civil War.
What is American Realism and Naturalism?
Wrote extensively on the ideas of not conforming to societal norms and relying on one's own truth.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Repetition of a word/phrase in direct succession.
What is epizeuxis?
"...I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived..."
What is a quote from Thoreau's Walden?
An Italian Sonnet that expresses regret later in life but finds hope in potential achievements down the road.
What is Longfellow's "Mezzo Cammin"
What is Regionalism?
A writer from Missouri who is famous for Frontier Folklore. Became very cynical later in life and wrote a long essay on the depravity of human beings.
Who is Mark Twain?
Denying the deity of Christ
What is Unitarianism?
"...this kind heart had but a short time to remain such. The fatal poison of irresponsible power was already in her hands, and soon commenced its infernal work. That cheerful eye, under the influence of slavery, soon became red with rage..."
What is a quote from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave?
A short story wherein the protagonist is obsessed with perfection and doing whatever it takes to achieve it, even at the expense of his wife.
What is Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Birthmark"?
A prominent worldview/ philosophical idea during Romanticism wherein the spiritual is above the physical.
What is Transcendentalism?
Author of "Thanatopsis"
Who is William Cullen Bryant?
A rural way of life that was generally seen as unsophisticated or narrow-minded.
What is Provincialism?
"To him who in the love of Nature holds / Communion with her visible forms, she speaks / A various language; for his gayer hours / She has a voice of gladness, and a smile / And eloquence of beauty..."
What is a quote from "Thanatopsis"?
A poem wherein the narrator describes different occupations in American society as the collective singing of the country.
What is "I Hear America Singing" by Walt Whitman.
A theme of Naturalism that determined one's circumstances as inescapable and human beings as unchangeable.
What is Trap of Social Circumstances?