Literary Periods
This literary period believed in the unity of all creation and that human nature contained something that goes beyond ordinary experience.
What is Transcendentalism
A quirky saying or expression specific to a language.
a.idiom
b. paradox
What is a, an idiom?
a group of words without a noun or a verb
What is a phrase?
The central message of a work of literature that readers can apply to life.
What is theme?
War connected to "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
What is the Civil War?
Considered a literature of transition between the oral tradition including myths and legends which flourished before Europeans arrived.
What is Native American Literature?
A contrast between appearance and reality.
a. irony
b. imagery
What is a, irony?
This punctuation must be used with two independent clauses and a coordinating conjunction.
What is a comma?
The method a writer uses to reveal the personality of a character, either directly or indirectly.
What is characterization?
Writing that makes a claim, defends the claim and addresses a counterclaim.
What is argumentative?
"Crisis No. 1","Speech to the Second Virginia Convention" and Benjamin Banneker's letter to Thomas Jefferson are examples of this literary period.
What is Revolutionary Literature?
Figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, to make a point, or to evoke humor.
What is Hyperbole
What part of speech is "readily"
What is a adverb?
Writing or speech that tells a story.
What is narrative?
What era of American Literature are we in today?
What is Post-Modernism?
"The Black Cat" is an example of the literature during this period when Americans first began to express themselves.
What is Romanticism?
A figure of speech in which opposite ideas are combined in a short phrase.
What is Oxymoron
When they finally breached the walls of Massada
This type of clause is...
What is a dependent clause?
The beginning of a story that includes an introduction to the characters and the setting.
What is exposition?
Name three elements of Romanticism.
What are emotions, imaginations, love of nature, distrust of science and celebration of the individual or outcast?
"An Occurrence and Owl Creek Bridge" and "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" by Mark Twain are examples of this type of literature.
What is Realism/Naturalism?
The other word for the denouement in plot.
What is resolution.
What is the main difference between clause and a sentence.
A sentence always expresses a complete thought.
A brief account of an interesting event, either personal or factual.
a. anecdote
b. antidote
c. antithesis
What is an anecdote?
Prefixes and suffixes are called...
What are affixes?