Puritans & Theism
Theistic authors accept authority from:
What are God and the Bible?
Author and publication date of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe (1851)?
The slogan of Romanticism
What is "Follow your heart: It will never lie" or "Nature is the source of all wisdom and healing"?
The two slogans that summarize realism and naturalism
What is "Life is short and then you die" (Realism) and "Life is a cruel joke" (Naturalism)?
Huckleberry Finn's author & his pen name
Who is Samuel Clemens?
Name of the man in "To Build a Fire"
What is he has no name?
"Shiftless!"
Who is Miss Ophelia (Uncle Tom's Cabin)
The author of the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This is the chief end of man
What is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever?
The three states where Tom lives as a slave
What are Kentucky, Georgia, and Louisiana?
This worldview is commonly known as the bridge between Theism and Romanticism
What is Deism?
Realism depicts life in this manner
What is objectively; how the author sees it; no fluff or dramatizations; often uses vulgar language?
Name of the wrecked steamboat on which Huck and Jim encounter the robbers
What is the Walter Scott?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!
The only character named in Stephen Crane's "Open Boat"
Who is Billie (the oiler)?
"A penny saved is a penny earned."
In American Lit class, the Disney Pocahontas been affectionately renamed this:
What is Barbie in Buckskin?
Free black poetess who bought her husband's freedom.
Who is Philis Wheatley?
Cassy frightens Legree by pretending to be this
What is a ghost?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!
Romantics can also be referred to as this
What are Transcendentalists?
These elements creep into Naturalism
What are Pessimism and Nihilism?
This is baked into the "witch pie" that Huck and Tom bake for Jim
What is a rope ladder?
At the conclusion of “Luck of Roaring Camp,” these two characters die
Who is Kentuck and the baby (Luck) (Tommy)?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and to see if I could not learn what it had to teach..."
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
Disney's Huck Finn, Tarzan, and Mowgli all portray the literary concept of...
What is the noble savage?
The length of Mary Rowlandson's captivity
What is 11 weeks?
She jumps over ice floes in the winter to save her child from being sold
Who is Eliza?
Ben Franklin’s 13th virtue
What is Humility: Imitate Jesus and Socrates?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!
Natualism/Realism include these types of details/elements (name three)
What are raw, crude or vulgar descriptions;
meeting death with dignity;
social awareness;
loss of or no literary hero;
rejection of moral absolutes;
social Darwinism;
strong neurotic characters
The Duke and Dauphin suffer this treatment because of their fraud
What is being tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail?
The name of the lone woman in "Luck of Roaring Camp"
Who is Cherokee Sal?
"Envy is ignorance. Imitation is suicide."
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
The origin of the concept of Manifest Destiny is found _________.
What is the Arabella Covenant?
The name of the revival that spread across the America during the 1730s and 1740s
What is the Great Awakening?
St. Claire dies of this
What is a knife wound?
The author of "Self-Reliance" and "Nature."
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson
Naturalism employs this social theory
What is Social Darwinism?
Jim considers this body feature as a sign of good luck
What is having a hairy chest?
Author of "The Killers"
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
“God seemed to leave his people to themselves, and order all things for His own Holy ends…. It is the Lord’s own doing and it should be marvelous in our eyes…”
Who is Mary Rowlandson?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!
The first 10 amendments collectively known as
What is the Bill of Rights?
The age of Cotton Mather when he graduated from Harvard
What is 14?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!
Uncle Tom's Cabin sold this many copies the first year it was published.
What is 300,000?
This book set the standard for man's relationship to nature.
What is Walden: a Life in the Woods?
Literary Realism begins in America in...
What is after the Civil War (post 1865)?
Jim and Tom think they have bad luck because of this
What is having killed a snake?
The name of the horse in “The Red Pony”
What is Galiban (Mountain)?
“Come Forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.”
“Up! Up! My friend, and quit your books; or surely you’ll grow double; Up! Up! My friend and clear your looks; why all this toil and trouble?”
Who is William Wordsworth?
The first man to sign the Declaration of Independence
Who was John Hancock?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!
The two men credited with the Great Awakening
Who are Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield?
Mrs. Stowe makes the following appeals to her readers to condemn slavery in Uncle Tom’s Cabin? (choose 4)
Stowe appeals to women to help their men make right choices.
Stowe appeals to mothers.
Stowe makes the case that slavery is expensive to the country's economy.
Stowe appeals to everyone to consider how slavery ruins families.
Stowe makes the case that slavery ruins the slave owners.
Stowe appeals to her reader's sense of Southern pride.
What are:
Stowe appeals to women to help their men make right choices.
Stowe appeals to mothers.
Stowe appeals to everyone to consider how slavery ruins families.
Stowe makes the case that slavery ruins the slave owners.
Emphasis on: science, discounting of miracles, education, moral virtue, Jesus was just a good teacher
What is Deism/Enlightenment?
Literary Naturalism begins in America in...
When is After World War I?
Aunt Sally thinks Huck is...
Who is Tom Sawyer?
The amount Della receives for her hair
What is $20?
'I spect I grow'd. Don't think nobody never made me."
Who is Topsy?
“Before his face the Heav’ns gave place, and skies are rent asunder, with mighty voice, and hideous noise, more terrible than thunder.”
Who is Michael Wigglesworth?
The most famous Puritan sermon and who gave it
What is "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" and Jonathan Edwards?
Tom is a literary figure of this type
What is a Christ type/figure?
The work that sparked the Romantic Revolution in Europe
What is William Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads (1798)?
These themes are NOT found in Naturalism and Realism:
Belief in the depravity of man
The universe is unpredictable, spontaneous, and discontinuous
Our Fate is determined by our environment, heredity, & chance
Nature is the source of all wisdom and healing
Free will is an illusion
Life is a cruel joke
🚫Belief in the depravity of man
The universe is unpredictable, spontaneous, and discontinuous
Our Fate is determined by our environment, heredity, & chance
🚫Nature is the source of all wisdom and healing
Free will is an illusion
Life is a cruel joke
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!
Tom does not want to easily rescue Jim because of this
Answers may vary.
What is "how it's done in the books" or "he has a romantic worldview" or "it's not complicated enough".
Identify three themes in "Bernice Bobs Her Hair"
What are: Women and Femininity; Peer Pressure; Youth; Competition; Identity; Betrayal; Jealousy?
“Time makes more convert than reason.”
This Deistic author is referred to as the greatest philosopher of his time
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
Features in Puritan literature include:
Belief in providence
Our Fate is determined by our environment, heredity, & chance
Belief in the depravity of man (original sin)
Man accountable to his creator
God set the universe in motion and let it go
Absolute standards
Free will is an illusion
Belief in providence
🚫Our Fate is determined by our environment, heredity, & chance
Belief in the depravity of man (original sin)
Man accountable to his creator
🚫God set the universe in motion and let it go
Absolute standards
🚫Free will is an illusion
The name of the young slave woman who jumps off the riverboat after Mr. Haley sells her son when she is not looking
Who is Lucy?
The Enlightenment places an emphasis on this, rather than authority
What is reason/science?
Form of writing in which the main character is nothing more than an animal without free will, controlled by chance, environment, heredity, and instinct; and who vainly struggles for survival but often dies heroically.
What is naturalism?
Huck knows that Pap has returned from St. Petersburg when he sees this
What is he sees his boot print in the snow (which has 2 crossed nails in the heel to ward off the devil)?
In "The Ransom of Red Chief," when Bill and Sam first find the son of Ebenezer Dorset, he is doing this
What is throwing rocks at a neighbor’s kitten?
“If we had no winter, spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”
Who is Anne Bradstreet?
Sincerity, spontaneity, and faith in emotion as markers of truth.
What is Romanticism?