The three main types of literature are prose, poetry, and ________.
What is drama?
100
Myths, stories, songs, etc. passed down by word of mouth
What is oral literature?
100
Giving human-like qualities to an inanimate object.
What is personification?
100
The center of activity for the Puritan community.
What is the church and family?
100
The father of transcendentalism.
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson or Henry David Thoreau?
200
The most concentrated (says the most in the fewest words) genre of literature.
What is poetry?
200
The characteristics of this style include characters who are morbid and that it reveals the dark side of humanity. The Minister's Black Veil and The Raven are examples of this style.
What is Gothic?
200
The glass animals in The Glass Menagerie.
What are symbols?
200
The green light was a symbol for this.
What is the American Dream?
200
This writer wrote a lot about the 1920s.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
300
Where a thesis statement appears in a paper.
What is the introduction and the conclusion?
300
A narrative in which characters and objects symbolize abstract ideas.
What is allegory?
300
A philosophy that focuses on nature and the importance of staying true to one's own individuality.
What is transcendentalism?
300
The valley of ashes was a symbol for this.
What is the poor people of the oncoming depression.
300
Wrote Native American legends
Who is the natives?
400
Type of writing or speaking that aims to sway the audience's opinion to agree with the writer or speaker.
What is persuasion?
400
American literature began with this group of people.
Who are the Native Americans? (They created myths called creation/origin myths.)
400
They wanted to purify their lives and their church of what they saw as corruption.
Who are the Puritans?
400
Blue Rose symbolizes this.
Something unattainable.
400
Wrote The Raven.
Who is Poe?
500
Introductions should be _________________.
What is short?
500
His fiery sermon about sinners helped make him one of the leaders of The Great Awakening.
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
500
The five types of imagery are....
What are sight/visual, sound, smell/olfactory, touch/tactile, and taste/gustatory?