Colonial Age & Age of Reason
Letters between this couple gave us a glimpse into the life of American Founders
Who are John and Abigail Adams?
In this story by Washington Irving, a man sleeps through the Revolutionary War
What is Rip Van Winkle?
Walt Whitman wrote about a noiseless, patient this
What is a spider?
This Stephen Crane story included a correspondent, a cook, an oiler, and a captain.
What is “The Open Boat”
In this longer work, bad employees don’t get fired
What is “Bartleby, the Scrivener”?
This early American poet wrote "The Author to Her Book" and "Before the Birth of One of her Children"
Who is Anne Bradstreet?
This movement emphasized the importance of nature, language, and self-reliance
What is Transcendentalism?
Emily Dickinson said that this is “the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul”
What is hope?
According to Atticus Finch, it is a sin to do this
What is kill a mockingbird?
This story is set along the Mississippi River
What is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
This famous sermon by Jonathan Edwards used imagery of a spider hanging over a flame to alert sinners of their peril
What is Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God?
Nathanial Hawthorn’s critique of Romanticism (included a pink hair ribbon as a symbol)
What is Young Goodman Brown?
In this frame story, quail shot is used, but not or hunting
What is “The Celebrated Frog of Calaveras County”?
Finish the line, “Whose woods these are, I think I know/His house…”
What is “is in the village though”
This story takes places in Maycomb, Alabama
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
He is best known for the line, "Give me liberty or give me death!"
Who is Patrick Henry?
This mollusk lives in the outermost chamber of the spiral shells it grows
What is a chambered nautilus?
You know him as Mark Twain, but his mother called him this
Who is Samuel Clemens?
This poet writes of two roads diverging in a yellow wood
Who is Robert Frost?
This story’s character persevered in spite of bad luck and physical discomfort
What is The Old Man and the Sea?
This group of early settlers from England were known for their piety and desire to purify the church from its corruptions
Who are the Puritans?
He wrote "The Purloined Letter," "Annabel Lee," and a famous poem about a black bird
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
This poet’s sister made her poems public after promising to burn all of her papers when she died.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
The author of The Old Man and the Sea
Who is Earnest Hemingway?
This story describes what happens when dreams are deferred
What is A Raisin in the Sun?