Authors
The author of The Great Gatsby.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
The "lost generation" novel written by Ernest Hemingway in 1926.
What is The Sun Also Rises?
Name one theme of The Old Man and the Sea.
What is determination, struggle, old age versus youth, etc?
"Can't repeat the past? Why of course you can!"
Who is Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby?
Literary Period that included the Gothics and the Transcendentals.
What is Romanticism?
An American author who wrote novels from the 1920's through the 1950's. He also won the Nobel Peace Prize in Literature in 1954.
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
The Arthur Miller play comparing the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 to the anti-communist movement of the early 1950's.
What is The Crucible?
Theme about what it means to become successful in America.
What is the American Dream?
"Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing I was born for."
Who is Santiago in The Old Man and the Sea?
Literary period of Anne Bradstreet.
What is Puritanism?
This author died a mysterious death in Baltimore on October 7th, 1849. His last words were "Lord, help my poor soul."
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
Walt Whitman's 1865 poem about the death of Abraham Lincoln.
What is O Captain My Captain?
Name three common themes in American Literature.
What is the American Dream, individualism, pursuit of love, meaning of freedom, etc?
Literary period of Willa Cather and Mark Twain.
What is realism?
This author grew up as a pioneer in Red Cloud, Nebraska.
Who is Willa Cather?
Essay by Henry David Thoreau that is an analysis of the individual’s relationship to the state that focuses on why men obey governmental law even when they believe it to be unjust.
What is Civil Disobedience?
The reason F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel about "the lost generation" (Tender is the Night) was not as successful as his first (The Great Gatsby).
What is because the depression era readers were not interested in reading about the themes presented such as excess and the waste of youth?
Literary period influenced by science and logic in the late 1700's.
What is the Enlightenment or The Age of Reason?
Considered one of the founding fathers of American humor.
Who is Mark Twain?
Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel about the conditions of slave life.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Theme of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath.
What are Man’s Inhumanity to Man, The Saving Power of Family and Fellowship, The Dignity of Wrath, The Multiplying Effects of Selfishness and Altruism?
Literary Period of Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Steinbeck.
What is Modernism?