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Who Am I?
Name that Literary Period
Literary Devices
The Crucible
Plot, Setting, Characterization
100
I wrote about my experience in captivity during King Phillip's War.
Who is Mary Rowlandson
100
Emerson & Thoreau
What is Transcendentalism?
100
"Hell's wide mouth gaping open."
What is personification
100
"a fat, sly, merciless girl of about twenty"
Who is Mercy Lewis?
100
setting of The Crucible
What is Salem, Massachusetts?
200
I wrote witty statements called aphorisms.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
200
Longfellow, Lowell, Whittier
What is Romanticism?
200
“ The wrath of God is like great waters that are damned for the present…”
What is a simile?
200
a devoted, yet occasionally cold wife
Who is Elizabeth Proctor?
200
lazy, but well-meaning man; henpecked husband
Who is Rip Van Winkle?
300
I wrote about the incestuous relationship between Madeline and Roderick Usher.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
300
"The Sky Tree"
What is Native American Literature?
300
“…’tis a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit…”
What is a metaphor?
300
a strikingly beautiful, manipulative girl
Who is Abigail Williams?
300
Location Thoreau decides to inhabit to experience a simplistic life.
What is Walden Pond?
400
I introduced the concept of the "transparent eyeball" in my essay "Nature."
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
400
Benjamin Franklin
Realism
400
William Bradford's style of writing
What is plain style?
400
motivated by land greed
Who is Thomas Putnam?
400
represents sloth in The Crucible
Who is Reverend Hale?
500
I addressed the President in my speech "On The Virginia Convention."
Who is Patrick Henry?
500
Washington Irving
What is Romanticism
500
Patrick Henry's persuasive tactics (1 of 2)
What are emotional and logical appeals?
500
official of the court; chains Elizabeth Proctor
Who is Ezekiel Cheever?
500
setting of Rip Van Winkle
Kaatskill Mountains