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A literary genre that depicts the unwarranted expression of emotion, where feeling is emphasized over intellect.
What is sentimentality?
100
Who wrote the book, originally in Spanish, in which he was shipwrecked off the coast of Galveston and the Avavares were a people he encountered?
Who is Cabeza De Vaca?
100
The name for rhymed lines that are iambic pentameter.
What is the heroic couplet?
100
Mademoiselle La Rue
Who is the unscrupulous French teacher who leads Charlotte Temple to ruin?
100
"Men are like plants; the goodness and flavor of the fruit proceeds from the peculiar soil and exposition in which they grow."
Who is Hector St. John De Crevecoeur?
200
A type of literature, popular in the late eighteenth century, made up primarily of letters that enhance multiple points of view.
What is epistolary fiction?
200
The name for the evangelical movement and religious enthusiasm in the 1730s and 1740s that led to a series of camp meetings which took place from Maine to Georgia.
What is the "Great Awakening"?
200
A form of direct address, often signaled by "O," in which a non-existant person or abstract idea is addressed.
What is apostrophe?
200
"'Twas mercy brought me from my native land / Taught my benighted soul to understand."
What is Phillis Wheatley's "On Being Brought from Africa to America"?
200
"And thus these poor Devils keep themselves always under."
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
300
A constructed literary personality that is projected by an author. Literally, a mask.
What is a persona?
300
His sermon was considered a "hellfire and brimstone" variety and delivered in Enfield, CT.
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
300
He begins his career by writing poems, though he says that he was "corrected" by his father who told him that "Verse-makers are usually Beggars."
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
300
"Poor Richard"
Who is the character who is Benjamin Franklin's pen name and embodies a frugal and industrious life in "The Way to Wealth"?
300
"'Take Him, ye wretched, for your only good; "'Take Him, ye starving sinners, for your food.'"
Who is Phillis Wheatley mimicking the voice of Rev. George Whitfield?
400
A story about people captured by Natives or other people who are considered "uncivilized." A precursor of the slave narrative.
What is a captivity narrative?
400
The Puritan belief that, although we are permitted and required to love the world, we must live with a detached "feeling" to others and earthly delights.
What is the Doctrine of "Weaned Affections"?
400
The name of a Mohegan who was an ordained Presbyterian minister and the recipient of a letter from Phillis Wheatley.
Who is Samson Occom?
400
Xenophon's Memorable Things of Socrates
What is a book that Benjamin Franklin read which introduced him to the image of the "humble Enquirer and Doubter" and which allowed him to adapt voices to persuade others of his positions?
400
"Ye call these red-brow'd brethren The insects of an hour, Crushed like the noteless worm amid The regions of their power."
Who is Lydia Sigourney appealing to Northern, religious readers?
500
Define Romanticism and give an example.
What is a literary, artistic, and intellectual movement that does the following: elevates feeling and intuition over the rationalism of the 18th century; celebrates nature; imagines the individual as a solitary figure who strives against conformity; and finds spiritual inspiration in the natural world.
500
The place that creates in Thomas Jefferson the sublime, characterized by a feeling of awe and wonder at natural grandeur, including a sense of fear and inability to articulate the experience in language.
What is the Natural Bridge of Virginia?
500
Name several features of an elegy.
What is a poem that is a lament or bereavement, contains an invocation of the muse, celebrates the life of a promising person, invokes comparisons to nature, and offers a means to find consolation.
500
a half-starved dog
What is Wolf, Rip's dog in "Rip Van Winkle," whose savagery parallel the pursuit of nature and lack of order to which he aspires?
500
"A race that long has passed away, Built them--a disciplined and populous race Heaped, with long toil, the earth, while yet the Greek Was hewing the Pentelicus to forms Of symmetry. . . . ."
What is the speaker of "The Prairies," William Cullen Bryant, or the mounds themselves?