Native American and Puritan
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" is a famous sermon from what religious revival?
The Great Awakening
What is a subgenre of Romantic works?
What is Regionalism and Naturalism?
Regionalism is literature written about local culture/specific locations
Naturalism is literature written about human nature
Name two authors in the Harlem Renaissance:
James Weldon Johnson
Claude McKay
Zora Neale Hurston
Langston Hughes
Countee Cullen
The Crucible is an allegory for . . .
The Red Scare
McCarthyism
Name two events on the Puritan timeline:
The Mayflower Arrives
Puritans continue to settle
Pequot War
The Salem Witch Trials
The Great Awakening
The French and Indian War
Name two Rationalist authors:
Benjamin Franklin
Patrick Henry
Thomas Paine
Phillis Wheatley
Name two events on the Modernism timeline:
Technology Advances
US Involvement in WWI
Treaty of Versailles, Prohibition, Women's Suffrage
The Great Depression
US Involvement in WWII
NATO Established
Name two authors in the Contemporary movement:
James Baldwin
Maya Angelou
Anne Sexton
Alice Walker
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Amy Tan
Sherman Alexie
Were the characters in The Crucible real people? Was the play historically accurate?
Yes, the play does contain real events and people, but it is dramatized, rather than being historically accurate.
Oral Literature
Morality Story Telling
Deep Respect for Nature/Animals
Cyclical Worldview
Figurative Language (Parallelism)
Valued Feelings and intuition
Inductive Reasoning
Faith in inner experiences and imagination
Nature is a path to spirituality
Emphasis on individualism
Poetry is the highest form of imagination
Name two Modernist Authors:
Robert Frost
T.S. Elliot
F. Scott Fitzgerald
William Faulkner
Eudora Welty
Lorraine Hansberry
John Steinbeck
What are two events on the Contemporary timeline:
Korean War
Vietnam War
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Moon Landing
Roe v Wade
Persian Gulf War
What is the meaning of the word "crucible"?
A severe trial that forges a new creation
Name two events on the Native American timeline:
Settlement of Native Americans
Native American culture flourishes
Christopher Columbus discovers the "New World"
Hernan Cortez conquers the Aztec Empire
Jamestown is Settled
Name two authors of Transcendentalism:
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Lousia May Alcott
Name two traits of Realism:
Feelings of Disillusionment
Subjects of Corruption and Industrialization
Represented everyday life and people
Attempted to explain behaviors (psychologically or socially)
Name two traits of the Contemporary movement:
Influenced by studies of media, language, information, and technology
Nothing is unique
New literary forms that experiment with a work's physical appearance
More Diverse Viewpoints and Creative Nonfiction
What is the term for the dismissal of one's own culture to adopt the majority culture?
Assimilation
Name at least two Puritan authors:
William Bradford
Anne Bradstreet
Edward Taylor
Jonathon Edwards
Name two events on the Transcendentalism timeline:
Frederick Douglass writes his autobiography
Mexican-American War
First Women
The Compromise of 1850
"Bleeding Kansas"
Dred Scott Decision
What is "The American Dream"?
The American Dream is the belief that all Americans have the opportunity to be successful, even in challenging circumstances
NAACP Created
The Great Migration Starts
Red Summer Riots
Louis Armstrong moves to NYC
The Weary Blues is published
Their Eyes Were Watching God is published
The idea that all individuals in the US have the opportunity to succeed through their own efforts and talents is called . . .
The American Dream