Early American Literature
Minor Romantics
Major Romantics
Realism & Naturalism
Modern Poetry
200

It was not until after this event that the first conscientiously American voices began to speak through literature.

What is the Revolutionary War?

200

This is the keyword that least describes the Romantic ideal.

What is rationality?

200

This group of authors and thinkers believed God could be found in everything and placed a heavy emphasis on nature.

Who were the transcendentalists?

200

Realism and naturalism appeared as a reaction against this literary movement.

What is romanticism?

200

Robert Frost is known as a poet of this.

What is contradictions?

400
The earliest colonial literature was predominantly focused on this.

What is their difficulty?

400

Washington Irving wrote for this clear purpose.

What is entertainment?

400

This man was the philosophical leader of transcendentalism.

Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?

400

This rule explained that a person was considered black if they had any black blood in their family.

What is the one-drop rule?

400

e. e. cummings celebrated this season in his poem "In Just-".

What is spring?

600

Dependence on this had to be abandoned before distinctly American literature could occur.

What is dependence on England?

600

This is Rip Van Winkle's primary fault.

What is a "distaste for profitable labor"?

600

Henry David Thoreau offers this central recommendation in "Walden."

What is simplify?

600

This realist author made the colloquial speech of the frontier into an artistic form.

Who is Mark Twain?

600

This Harlem Renaissance Poet was greatly influenced by blues and jazz music.

Who is Langston Hughes?

800
She was the first colonist to write a sizeable body of verse.

Who was Anne Bradstreet?

800

Minor Romantics believed this was the way to improve man.

What is removing negative influences from their environment?

800

This group of authors criticized transcendentalism and held a pessimistic view of society, while writing stories rich in symbolism.

Who were the Dark Romantics?

800

In Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat," the correspondent observes that nature seems to act this way.

What is indifferent?

800

This was the thesis of the imagist poem "Ars Poetica."

What is "a poem should not mean, but be"?

1000

This belief maintained that the solution to man's problem lies in human reason.

What is Deism?

1000
It was throughout these years that Romanticism dominated American literature.

What is 1820-1865?

1000

This is the term for the transcendental belief in a higher power that connects all living creatures.

What is the "Universal Being"?

1000
Koskoosh compares himself to this in Jack London's "The Law of Life."

What is an old bull moose?

1000

The line "your eyes have their silence" is an example of this literary term.

What is synesthesia?