The "lost generation" novel written by Ernest Hemingway in 1926.
What is The Sun Also Rises?
100
Name one theme of The Old Man and the Sea.
What is determination, struggle, old age versus youth, etc?
100
"Can't repeat the past? Why of course you can!"
Who is Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby?
100
Literary Period that included the Gothics and the Transcendentals.
What is Romanticism?
200
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?
200
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?
200
Theme about what it means to become successful in America.
What is the American Dream?
200
"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?
200
Literary period of Anne Bradstreet.
What is Puritanism?
300
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?
300
Walt Whitman's 1865 poem about the death of Abraham Lincoln.
What is O Captain My Captain?
300
Name three common themes in American Literature.
What is the American Dream, individualism, pursuit of love, meaning of freedom, etc?
300
"The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that."
Who is Charley in Death of a Salesman?
300
Literary period of Willa Cather and Mark Twain.
What is realism?
400
This author grew up as a pioneer in Red Cloud, Nebraska.
Who is Willa Cather?
400
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?
400
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?
400
"And now the old story has begun to write itself over there. Isn't it strange: there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before."
Who is Carl Linstrum in O Pioneers!?
400
Literary period influenced by science and logic in the late 1700's.
What is the Enlightenment or The Age of Reason?
500
Considered one of the founding fathers of American humor.
Who is Mark Twain?
500
Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel about the conditions of slave life.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
500
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?
500
"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind."
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson in "Self-Reliance"?
500
Literary Period of Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Steinbeck.