Show:
Puritanism/The Great Awakening
The Crucible
Rhetorical/Persuasive Devices
Romanticism & Transcendentalism
The Slave Narrative
100
Who wrote, "And we shall be as a city upon a hill..."?
John Winthrop
100
Who hangs beside John Proctor in Act IV?
Rebecca Nurse, Martha Corey
100
Who is responsible for the arrangement of classical oration?
Aristotle
100
Who wrote, "Leave of Grass"?
Walt Whitman
100
What American genre deals with issues of truth, credibility and reliability?
The American Slave Narrative
200
Who wrote, "To my Dear and Loving Husband"?
Anne Bradstreet
200
How many acts are in The Crucible?
4
200
What directly precedes the confirmatio?
narratio
200
True of False: Transcendentalism is always Romanticism, but Romanticism is not always Transcendentalism.
True
200
Who usually wrote the Exordium of most slave narratives?
A white, wealthy editor
300
How was the Great Awakening different from Puritanism?
it called for unity over intolerance
300
What year did the Salem Witch Trials occur?
1692
300
"Look, I've been at Dartmouth for 30 years and I've seen a lot of students-- there just isn't a sustained interest in reading anymore. I see students everyday who are enrolled in 2 or 3 literature courses and never pick up a book." Identify the strongest persuasive appeal in this argument.
Ethos
300
How long did Henry David Thoreau live on Walden Pond?
2 years, 2 months, 2 days
300
What was one purpose of a slave narrative?
To portray slavery as the atrocity that it truly was
400
The strongest rhetorical mode behind Johnathan Edwards' sermon, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God is...
Persuasive
400
Identify the speaker of the following quote: "Spare me! You forget nothin and forgive nothin! Learn charity, woman."
John Proctor
400
Identify the persuasive appeals: "A close look at the under-25 age group shows cognitive decline, poor attention and memory and decreased IQ among those who regularly smoke pot, defined as at least once a week," says Krista Lisdahl, director of the brain-imaging and neuropsychology lab at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Logos, Ethos
400
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is known as one of America's...
Fireside Poets
400
Frederick Douglass delivered his 4th of July speech in what year?
1852
500
Name 2 influences of Puritan writing:
The Bible Cicero Ovid
500
List 2 things Rev Hale finds "suspicious" about John Proctor and his family:
He is unable to remember all his commandments, his youngest son has not been baptized, he does not attend church regularly
500
A "certified, pre-owned vehicle" is an example of a...
Euphemism
500
Who is considered the father of the Romantic American Short Story?
Washington Irving
500
How old was Douglass when he learned to read?
8 years old.