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Literary Terms/Devices
Puritan and Revolutionary Writers
Romanticism
Realism, Regionalism, and Naturalism
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
100
a speech given by just one character
What is monologue?
100
Jonathan Edwards and Anne Bradstreet were known as this type of writer
What is "puritan" writer?
100
The focus of the American Romantic period
What is "the individual"?
100
Writers who sought to record the unique character and setting of a region
What is a regionalists?
100
The name of Huckleberry FInn's boy sidekick
Who is Tom Sawyer?
200
A direct reference, in a work of literature, to historical and cultural events and/or ideas
What is an allusion?
200
The most important document of the Revolutionary writing period
What is "The Declaration of Independence"?
200
Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne were considered this type of writer
What is "American Gothics"?
200
This regional author included overstatement and irony to add his humor to his stories
What is Mark Twain?
200
Huckleberry Finn ran away with this escaped slave
Who is Jim?
300
A short speech directed toward the audience that is not heard by others on stage
What is an aside?
300
The target of Thomas Jefferson's document, The Declaration of Independence
Who is King George III?
300
These writers believed in optimism, freedom, and self-reliance
What is transcendentalists?
300
Emily Dickinson, a realism poet, often focused on these ideas in her poems
What is death and loss?
300
The reason Huckleberry Finn ran away in the first place
What is to "avoid abuse from his father"?
400
a device used to express ideas of equal worth in similar grammatical form
What is parallelism?
400
Revolutionary writers sough to spread this idea through documents and pamphlets during the American Revolution
What is "freedom"?
400
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, a fireside poet, wrote this type of poetry
What is traditional?
400
This author's main purpose for writing a slave narrative was to persuade readers that slavery should be abolished
Who is Fredrick Douglas?
400
Pap to Huckleberry Finn
What is his father?
500
A main character who usually faces a conflict with an outside force
Who is a protagonist?
500
Jonathan Edwards most famous sermon
What is "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"?
500
Poe's phrase in "The Raven" - While I nodded, nearly napping - is an example of this sound device
What is alliteration?
500
This poet used inventive punctuation and irregular capitalization in her realism poetry
Who is Emily Dickinson?
500
Pen name of Samuel Clemens
What is Mark Twain?