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Believed logic was more important than imagination
What is Neoclassicism
100
Puritan author who wrote about her own personal life experiences.
Who is Anne Bradstreet
100
A piece of literature that tells of the immortal love of a man for his deceased wife.
What is Annabel Lee
100
“The devil take me if I have made a farthing.”
What is The Devil and Tom Walker
100
What 3 things do you need to determine the mood of a story?
What is plot, diction, and setting
200
believed that God, not man, owned everything, and that God could do as he wished with his property.
What is Puritanism
200
A Renaissance Man who was skilled as an author, scientist, and politician
Who is Benjamin Franklin
200
A piece of literature in which the author tried to reach moral perfection.
What is The Autobiography
200
“The world no longer let me love, my hope and treasure lies above.”
Who is Anne Bradstreet
200
What is the mood of a story?
What is the emotion a piece of literature gives to the reader
300
Saw nature as a refuge and a teacher.
What is Romanticism
300
Wrote a poem about his view on death when he was only 17 years old.
Who is William Cullen Bryant
300
A piece of literature in which the main character was a usurer.
What is The Devil and Tom Walker
300
“There is a Power that teaches thy way along the pathless coast.”
What is To a Waterfowl
300
What is satire?
A literary technique that brings social pressure down on an aspect of human nature in order to make fun of it so it will change.
400
Philosophy which emphasized man’s total depravity.
What is Puritanism
400
Wrote Dark Romanticism, his pieces often include supernatural elements and twisted aspects of human nature.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe
400
A piece of literature in which a sermon is organized in order to scare its listeners into repenting for their sins.
What is Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
400
“You will be brother to the insensible rock and the sluggish clod.”
What is Thanatopsis
400
“He who from zone to zone,/Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight,/In the long way that I must tread alone,/will lead my steps aright.” HOW does this quote represent Romanticism?
In this quote the speaker learns a lesson from watching a bird. Romantics believed nature was a teacher.
500
Philosophy of the Transcendentalists.
What is Romanticism
500
Father of the American short story.
Who is Washington Irving
500
A piece of literature in which a man learns a lesson from a bird passing overhead.
What is To a Waterfowl
500
“The wrath of God is like great waters that are damned for the present.”
What is Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
500
Give an example of satire used in The Devil and Tom Walker AND the aspect of human nature it is criticizing.
What is Religious Hypocrisy, Marriage, Human Greed