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Native American
Colonial
Revolutionary
Romanticism
Realism
100
This term is used to describe tales that are passed down orally from generation to generation.
What is oral tradition?
100
These are the years that the Colonial time period span.
What is 1620-1750?
100
These are the years the Revolutionary time period spans.
What is 1750-1815?
100
These are the years this literary time period spans.
What is 1800-1855?
100
These are the years spanned by this literary time period.
What is 1850-1900.
200
In this Native American tale a young girl marries a bear.
What is "When Grizzlies Walked Upright"?
200
This is the group of religious settlers who came from England to escape religious persecution.
Who are the Puritans?
200
This pamphleteer wrote "Common Sense."
Who is Thomas Paine?
200
This movement within the Romantic movement explored the dark side of the human psyche; such authors included Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
What is Dark Romanticism?
200
This major war took place in this literary time period.
What is the Civil War?
300
This common theme appears in all Native American literature.
What is a respect/reverence for nature?
300
This author wrote "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
300
In this famous speech, Patrick Henry spoke the famous words "Give me liberty or give me death."
What is "The Speech to the Virginia Convention"?
300
This literary movement was a hippie-style philosophical movement whose main writers included Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
What is Transcendentalism?
300
This movement is a branch of Realism; it involves man vs nature conflicts where there is always a grim outcome.
What is naturalism?
400
This type of story explains how something was created or why something exists.
What is an origin myth?
400
Most writing of this time period is shaped by what two factors?
What are religion and government?
400
This major war took place during this literary time period.
What is the Revolutionary War/American Revolution?
400
Name two aspects from this time period.
What are individualism, nature, imagination, emotions, intuition?
400
This writer of realism wrote about life on the Mississippi between a young boy and a runaway slave.
Who is Mark Twain?
500
These vary from tribe to tribe.
What are cultural values?
500
This man spans both the Colonial time period as well as the Revolutionary time period.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
500
This literary movement was defined by its feelings of patriotism.
What is nationalism?
500
Which transcendentalist writer was thrown in jail for refusing to pay his taxes?
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
500
These types of characters made up the literature of realism.
Who are real people in real situations?