the way most stories were passed on
What is the oral tradition?
Or orally
the definition of predestination
What is predetermined spiritual end by a higher power?
Or God determines who goes to heaven and who goes to hell
the war that kicked off the American Romantic period
What is the American Revolution?
the three genres of American Realism
What is Realism, Regionalism, and Naturalism?
the historical document that highlighted atrocities of the Civil War
What is the Gettysburg Address?
the purpose of an origin/creation story
What is to explain the beginning of something?
a Puritan belief
What is people are born in sin?
Or expected to attend church
Or expected to conform to society
Or all sins were to be punished
the war that ended the American Romantic period
What is the Civil War?
the definition of vernacular
What is dialogue that sounds like the real thing?
the historical document that officially ended slavery in the US
What is the 13th Amendment?
a major theme of Native American literature
What is to teach a moral lesson?
Or to entertain
Or to preserve history and culture
Or to illustrate the balance of the world
a major theme in Puritan literature
What is guilt?
Or the occult
Or nature
Or society
the three genres of American Romanticism
What is Romanticism, Gothicism, and Transcendentalism?
the Realism genre most similar to Gothicism
What is Naturalism?
the historical document that began the process to end slavery in the US
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
the Nez Percé leader who resisted white takeover
Who is Chief Joseph?
Nathaniel Hawthorne's ancestor who participated in the Salem witch trials
Who is John Hathorne?
the five "I"s of American Romanticism
What is imagination, individuality, idealism, inspiration, and intuition?
the definition of verisimilitude
What is "art imitating life"?
the battle that inspired the national anthem
What is the War of 1812?
Or the battle for Fort McHenry
the Five Nations included in the Iroquois Constitution
Who are the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca tribes?
the religious leader banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for her beliefs (also the person who entered the prison first in The Scarlet Letter)
Who is Ann Hutchinson?
one of the leaders of the Transcendentalists
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
Or Henry David Thoreau
arguably the most famous Regionalist writer
Who is Mark Twain?
Or Samuel Clemens
the historical document that gave black men voting rights in the US
What is the 15th Amendment?