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History
Early American Lit
Narrator
Plot
Misc
100
The first American literature was written as
What is colonial journals
100
The wilderness represented
What is physical, spiritual, and political struggles
100
person telling the story
What is narrator
100
most exciting, changing moment in the story
What is climax
100
This writer communicated the will of the people and God
What is Writer as preacher and lawmaker
200
The Age of Reason was also known as the age of
What is enlightenment
200
American literary themes (3)
What is wilderness, community, individualism
200
narration that involves a person outside of the story, that can relay the feelings and thoughts of all the characters
What is 3rd person omniscient
200
final events that bring the story to a close
What is resolution
200
This writer helped people to learn from other's lives
What is writer as autobiographer
300
Early literary themes centered around ideal communities based on
What is moral and religious values
300
Three uniquely American themes
What is place, past, vision
300
narration that involves the use of the personal pronoun you
What is 2nd person
300
the overall truth of life in a story - lesson learned
What is theme
300
narration that involves an outside observer that does not communicate the feelings or thoughts of any character
What is 3rd person objective
400
Wrote one of the first and most well known examples of a colonial journal
What is William Bradford
400
The Puritan movement called for
What is self examination, spiritual enlightenment
400
narration that uses the personal pronoun I, me, we, us
What is 1st person
400
the overall feeling the reader gets from a work of literature
What is mood
400
dictionary definition
What is denotation
500
Early American literature was communicated
What is orally
500
This writer gave perspective to heritage and gave meaning to the community experience
What is writer as poet and historian
500
narration that involves an outside observer who only communicates the feelings and thoughts of one character
What is 3rd person limited
500
hints of what is going to happen in the story
What is foreshadowing
500
the positive or negative feelings a words causes
What is connotation