Beginnings & Colonial Period
This group's literature featured a profound respect for the natural world, as well as many words new and unfamiliar to European settlers.
Native Americans'
These are short, wise sayings about life.
aphorisms
considered the first true literary movement in America
American Romanticism
This was another term for the soldiers who fought for the North during the Civil War.
Good: "Union soldier"
Better: "Yankees"
Best: "Federal troops"
Nick moves to this village, where residents like Gatsby typically have earned their wealth during their own lifetime, instead of inheriting family wealth.
West Egg
Besides being the title for one of Taylor Swift's newest albums, this term refers to the traditional songs, legends, and myths of early literature, usually preserved by word-of-mouth.
folklore
Over 230 years later, this document is still the supreme law of the United States. It was originally made of seven articles and delineates the national frame of government.
The Constitution
This Romantic poet used unconventional capitalization and punctuation, as well as never gave poems titles.
Emily Dickinson
Mary Chesnut describes the events surrounding this "battle" in the diary entries which we read.
Fort Sumter
According to the opening paragraphs to The Great Gatsby, what is an important detail about Nick?
He reserves all judgments on people.
These are areas established by a larger, often distant controlling country where settlers can go to live.
colonies
This poetic device uses final sounds that are similar but do not rhyme exactly, such as "worm" and "swarm."
slant rhyme
This literary offshoot focuses especially on human fallibility and sin.
Dark Romanticism
This women's rights activist changed her name after she became convinced that God had called her to testify to the hope that was in her.
Sojourner Truth
This refers to "the whole mood and spirit of the play."
style
This alliance of five, later six, American Indian tribes once dominated what is now the northeastern United States.
The Iroquois Confederacy
This term refers to a mindset, prevalent during Colonial times, which stressed hard work, discipline, and frugality.
the "Puritan ethic"
Name a famous Transcendentalist author.
Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Alcott, Hawthorne, Fuller, Longfellow
This term, found frequently in literature of the Naturalist period, refers to the idea that Fate decides your life and not you.
determinism
This term is used for the years immediately following WWI during times of unprecedented growth and materialism.
The Jazz Age
Originally established as a training school for pastors, this university is still the oldest in the US.
Harvard University in Cambridge, MA
His idea of the "social contract" argued that people are born with natural “unalienable rights” which aren’t government property.
John Locke
Romanticism was an emotional reaction to ___.
the Age of Reason
"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" addresses this theme on multiple levels.
vision and reality
Which Wisconsin city does Bernice call home in Fitzgerald's "Bernice Bobs Her Hair"?
Eau Claire