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Last of the Mohicans
100
The author of Gone With the Wind
Who is Margaret Mitchell
100
The literary movement of 1600-1750 in which writing has a practical purpose. Examples include sermonist Jonathan Edwards and poet Anne Bradstreet.
What is Puritanism or Colonialism
100
the name of the deaf, mute, blind child
What is Helen Keller
100
An outgrowth of Realism, this movement's authors wrote about specific geographical areas, presenting the distinct culture of an area, including its speech, customs, beliefs, and history. Includes Willa Cather and William Faulkner
What is Regionalism
100
The author of Last of the Mohicans
Who is James Fenimore Cooper
200
awarded to Gone With the Wind in 1937
What is The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
200
The literary period which held the belief that evil is merely the absence of good and stressed idealism, individualism, imagination, emotion, nature. American topics were introduced such as frontier life. Examples include Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Fenimore Cooper Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Washington Irving
What is Romanticism
200
The name of the young teacher
What is Anne Sullivan
200
(1915-1946) – This period begins with pursuit of the American Dream but soon turns to disillusionment and alienation. Authors raised all the great questions of life…but offered no answers. This period brought us perhaps our best writers. Faulkner, Steinbeck, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Frost are all examples.
What is the Modern Age
200
The mythical hero of James Fenimore Cooper's five volume epic The Leatherstocking Tales
Who is Natty Bumpo
300
the name of the O'Hara's plantation home
What is Tara
300
The literary period 1750-1800 influenced by science and logic, encouraged patriotism and pride, and included political documents, speeches, and letters Examples: Thomas Jefferson “The Declaration of Independence” Benjamin Franklin “Poor Richard’s Almanac” Thomas Paine “Common Sense”
What is The Age of Reason (Enlightenment/Revolutionary)
300
an account of someone's life written by someone else
What is biography
300
The Ox Bow Incident is often considered to be the first modern novel of this genre, without the usual clichés and formulaic plots
What is Western fiction
300
The hero's nickname in Last of the Mohicans
What is Hawkeye
400
the author of The Chosen
Who is Chaim Potok
400
the literary period 1865-1915 which stressed the actual as opposed to the imagined or the fanciful. Authors tried to write truthfully and objectively about ordinary characters in ordinary situations, rejecting heroic, adventurous, unusual, or unfamiliar subjects. The Realists, in turn, were followed by the Naturalists, who traced the effects of heredity and environment on people helpless to change their situations. Evident in the writings of major figures such as Mark Twain
What is Realism
400
One of Nevada's most distinguished literary figures of the 20th century and author of The Oxbow Incident
Who is Walter van Tilburgh
400
Part of the Modern Age, this movement occurred during the 1920’s, and was a time of African American artistic creativity centered in Harlem, in New York City. Writers include Langston Hughes and Zora Neal Hurston
What is the Harlem Renaissance
400
The literary period of which Last of the Mohicans is an example
What is Romanticism
500
The three significant historical moments in history during which the novel takes place
What is WWII, the Holocaust, and the Zionist movement to create Israel
500
A literary and philosophical movement (1840-1855)based in New England, believed that intuition and the individual conscience “transcend” experience and thus are better guides to truth than are the senses and logical reason. Influenced by Romanticism, these authors respected the individual spirit and the natural world, believing that divinity was present everywhere, in nature and in each person. It included Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau
What is Transcendentalism
500
the term for the basic legal protections that the posse did not afford to the three men that were hung
What is Due Process of Law
500
The period (1946-present) which is concerned with the individual in isolation; Social issues as writers align with feminist & ethnic groups;Erodes distinctions between classes of people; Good stuff, but w/o a clear philosophy. Examples: Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut, Maya Angelou, Stephen King, John Grisham
What Contemporary
500
The war during which Last of the Mohicans is set
What is the French and Indian War