A central idea, message or insight that a literary work reveals.
What is Theme
100
The seeker of the feeling of oneness with all that is beautiful and good.
What is a Transcendentalist?
100
Pragmatic and materialistic.
What was the North after the Civil War?
100
Rhythms of work based on biblical imagery, expressing lamentation, comfort and hope.
What are Spirituals?
100
Stay out of conflict.
What is isolationism?
200
When the writer reveals insights into the nature and meaning of it by revealing details and stories of their physical, political and spiritual struggles.
What is Wilderness
200
Provided the backbone for the american belief in the ability to rise above the brute realities to achieve a higher, nobler ideal and insight into life.
What is Transcendentalism?
200
Four years and 600,000.
What is the length of the Civil War and how many soldiers died?
200
What, are you stupid?
What is a rhetorical question?
200
Major economic reform by building dams and bridges.
What is The New Deal?
300
Wilderness, community and individualism.
What are examples of themes of early American Literature?
300
Westerning, Bright and Dark Romanticism and Self-reliance.
What are the literary themes that emerged during the American Renaissance?
300
Electric Lights, Telephones, automobiles, motion pictures and skyscrapers.
What is inventions of the "Age of Electricity"?
300
Facts, statistics or expert testimony used to win an argument.
What is a logical appeal?
300
The sense of waste and hopelessness.
What is the result of World War I on American spirits?
400
The spinning wheel that works for the person who uses it and the poet who desires to devote himself to God.
What is is the metaphor in Huswifery?
400
Think for yourself and act on what you think.
What is self-reliance?
400
Child Labor and exploited Immigrants.
What is negative effects of the "age of electricity"?
400
"The war is inevitable-and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come!"
What is repetition
400
The attack on Pearl Harbor.
What is the end of isolationism?
500
A traditional story that explains how life began.
What is an origin myth?
500
Identifying a character's personality through speech, thoughts, actions, reactions, appearance.
What is indirect characterization?
500
Settlers, railroads, mines, ploughed fields, grazing lands and fences.
What is the cause of the American Frontier vanishing?
500
"...ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you can do for your county."
What is antithesis?
500
In Finding Nemo, Bruce the shark is a ?? character - he is not around very long, and we don't really understand why he does what he does. His motivations are very simple - when he gets hungry, he tries to eat.