Author of "The Raven" and "The Fall of the House of Usher"
Who is Edgar Allan Poe
100
Storytelling, pictographs, creation myths
What is Native American literature
100
Information from the reading that hints at a word's meaning.
What are context clues
100
the general appearance of a publication
What is format
100
The Great Gatsby
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald
200
Two Transcendentalist writers
Who is Emerson and Thoreau
200
Plain style, theocracy
What is Puritanism
200
"justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."
What is simile
200
extravagant exaggeration
What is hyperbole
200
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Who is Mark Twain
300
Longfellow, Holmes, Lowell, Whittier
Who are The Fireside Poets
300
Valorization of an individual who is out of control
What is Modernism
300
I trod the earth and knew it was my tomb,
And now I die, and now I was but made;
What is paradox
300
intent; persuade, entertain, inform, etc.
What is purpose
300
"The Minister's Black Veil" & The Scarlet Letter
Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne
400
Author of the first American Romance
Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne
400
Supernatural, dark side of human nature
What is Romanticism
400
...MLK, "Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation."
What is allusion
400
writing used to analyze a subject or meant for an authoritative audience
What is formal writing
400
"A Raisin in the Sun"
Who is Hansberry
500
Most famous Puritan minister
Who is Jonathan Edwards
500
Dark humor, celebrates insanity
What is Post Modernism
500
...The reader and Nick knows that Daisy was driving the car that killed Myrtle, but Tom does not.
What is dramatic irony
500
...Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force...And they (whites) have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.