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This minister wrote "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" with the intention of scaring people back to Puritanism.
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
100
During this period, most of the writing was in the form of speeches, essays, and pamphlets
What is the Revolutionary Period?
100
The characteristic Romantic journey is to here, which Romantics associated with independence, moral clarity, and healthful living.
What is the countryside?
100
This author used death (typically of a beautiful woman), the exotic, mystery, as well as exploration of the psyche in his works
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
100
The Transcendentalists believed that to determine the ultimate reality of God, one must do this or go beyond everyday human experiences in the physical world.
What is transcend?
200
Puritans were a group of individuals who wished to ___________ the church.
What is purify?
200
Walt Whitman's poetry was unique in form because it...
What is used free-verse?
200
Romanticism, like Transcendentalism, values these two things over reason.
What are feeling and intuition?
200
This Puritan author believed in reason and learning, the value of independent intellect, and the power of the human will. Likewise, he also believed in the lowliness of human beings and the ultimate futility of merely human efforts to achieve salvation.
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
200
____________ went to Walden Pond to live ____________.
What is Henry David Thoreau & deliberately?
300
In William Bradford's "of Plymouth Plantation," he writes about ____________ and ________'s impact.
What is the journey to America and God's impact?
300
This author wrote folktales that incorporated the magical, the historic, and the exotic.
Who is Washington Irving?
300
To the Romantic mind, this was the highest embodiment of the imagination.
What is poetry?
300
This Rationalist described a plan for achieving a perfectly virtuous life - that is, to "live without committing any fault at any time." To do this, he devised a list of 13 virtures and an ambitious plan for mastering each one, in order, one at a time.
Who is Ben Franklin?
300
This man was the leader of the Transcendentalists. He wrote "Self-Reliance".
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
400
Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is written ABOUT the Puritans because ______________.
What is his ancestors were Puritans?
400
This group of writers believed that nature, and the world, consisted of both good and evil, both optimism and pessimism.
Who are the Anti-Transcendentalists?
400
The Fireside poets included Longfellow, Whittier, and _____________.
Who is Holmes?
400
This author wrote his own epitaph and it went like this: "The body of _________ , Printer (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn our and stripped of its lettering and gilding), lies here food for worms; but the work shall not be wholly lost, for it will...appear once more in a new and more elegant edition..."
Who is the fantastic, the eloquent, the witty Ben Franklin?
400
Emerson's mystical view of the world did not spring from logic, but from this.
What is intuition?
500
In The Crucible, people are accused of witchcraft for many reasons. The main reason why people accused others was ____________.
What is vengeance (revenge)?
500
A Romantic who can also be considered an Anti-Transcendentalist is__________
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
500
This particular group was composed of the most popular poets American had ever produced; they were also sometimes called Schoolroom Poets.
Who were the Fireside Poets?
500
This is a literary term for a brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life. Who is famous for having written these?
What is an aphorism? Who is Ben Franklin.
500
The Transcendentalists believed that God could be found here.
What is Nature?