Early American Literature
It was not until after this event that the first conscientiously American voices began to speak through literature.
What is the Revolutionary War?
This is the keyword that least describes the Romantic ideal.
What is rationality?
This group of authors and thinkers believed God could be found in everything and placed a heavy emphasis on nature.
Who were the transcendentalists?
Realism and naturalism appeared as a reaction against this literary movement.
What is romanticism?
This Harlem Renaissance Poet was greatly influenced by blues and jazz music.
Who is Langston Hughes?
What is their difficulty?
Washington Irving wrote for this clear purpose.
What is entertainment?
This man was the philosophical leader of transcendentalism.
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
This rule explained that a person was considered black if they had any black blood in their family.
What is the one-drop rule?
e. e. cummings celebrated this season in his poem "In Just-".
What is spring?
Dependence on this had to be abandoned before distinctly American literature could occur.
What is dependence on England?
This is Rip Van Winkle's primary fault.
What is a "distaste for profitable labor"?
Henry David Thoreau offers this central recommendation in "Walden."
What is simplify?
This realist author made the colloquial speech of the frontier into an artistic form.
Who is Mark Twain?
Robert Frost implicitly compares and contrasts these two things in "Birches."
What are childhood and adulthood?
Who was Anne Bradstreet?
Minor Romantics believed this was the way to improve man.
What is removing negative influences from their environment?
This group of authors criticized transcendentalism and held a pessimistic view of society, while writing stories rich in symbolism.
Who were the Dark Romantics?
In Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat," the correspondent observes that nature seems to act this way.
What is indifferent?
This was the thesis of the imagist poem "Ars Poetica."
What is "a poem should not mean, but be"?
This belief maintained that the solution to man's problem lies in human reason.
What is Deism?
What is 1820-1865?
This is the term for the transcendental belief in a higher power that connects all living creatures.
What is the "Universal Being"?
What is an old bull moose?
The line "your eyes have their silence" is an example of this literary term.
What is synesthesia?