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Uncle Tom's Cabin
EAA
The Scarlet Letter
Romanticism
Fireside Poets
100
Uncle Tom
Who is the main character of the story and dies a terrible death at the hands of a slave owner?
100
Came over on the Mayflower and wrote "Of Plymouth Plantation."
Who is William Bradford?
100
The Scarlet letter was written during this era of American Literature.
What is Romanticism (the 19th century)?
100
Between 1830-1860.
When did the American Renaissance occur?
100
A temporary encampment.
What is a bivouac?
200
She runs away because she overhears her master selling her son to a slave trader.
Who is Eliza?
200
Literature that is focused on personal spiritual devotion.
What is Puritan Literature
200
Images/symbols that represent abstract ideas.
What is allegory?
200
The physical collapse of the mansion and the extinction of the family.
To what does "The Fall of the House of Usher" refer?
200
"Dust thou art, to dust returnest / was not spoken of the soul."
What is the "Psalm of Life" written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
300
A law that required all fugitive slaves to be returned to their owners as soon as they were found.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
300
This earlier culture believed man was a depraved sinner, but the following era believed man was a "Tabula Rosa."
What is the difference between the Puritan's view of humanity and the Enlightenment's view of humanity?
300
She married and moved to Europe.
Who is Pearl?
300
"Yet it is certain that the power to produce this delight does not reside in nature, but in man, or in a harmony of both."
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
300
"The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls," represents this broader meaning.
What is life's cyclical, enduring nature?
400
He dies in a knife fight at a bar before he could free his slaves.
Who is Augustine St. Clare?
400
"Give me liberty or give me death!"
Who is Patrick Henry?
400
Suffers ignominy because of her actions.
Who is Hester?
400
The quotation, "if a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer," refers to this Romantic theme.
What is individualism?
400
A vision of death.
What is Thanatopsis?
500
He thinks Uncle Tom is a poor representation of the African American race. He is famous for calling Uncle Tom a "passive toady."
Who James Baldwin?
500
The art of persuasion.
What is rhetoric?
500
Both require a single object of obsession.
What is love and hate?
500
This quotation refers to this essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string."
What is "Self-Reliance?"
500
"Old Ironsides" was it's nickname.
What is the "U.S.S. Constitution?"