Native Americans and Puritans
Colonial/ Early Americans/ American Romanticism
Gothic
Transcendentalism
Other
100

A creation myth of the Native American tribe Iroquois.

What is The World on the Turtles Back?

100

This was taken out of the final draft of the Declaration of Independence

Slavery

100

A famous author during the Gothic era.

Who is Edgar Allan Poe?

100

They would never conform with the masses?

What is Transcendentalism?

100

Stereotypical character types.

What is an archtype?

200

Modesty, Fearing God, and Simplicity what these people believed in.

What is Puritans?

200

Abraham Lincoln's death is the metaphor.

What is O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman.

200

Description of gothic literature.

What are texts that explore the supernatural and humanity's dark side?

200

Emerson and Thoreau.

Who are the two main authors during transcendentalism?

200

Persuasive techniques.

What is Rhetoric?

300

How Native Americans kept track of long stories.

What is drums and other instruments for rhythm?

300

The speech that honored the fallen men in the Civil War.

What is the Gettysburg Address?

300

This story was set during the Spanish Inquisition.

What is The Pit and the Pendulum?

300

Walden's central message.

What is to live simply, independently, and wisely.

300
The general attitude of the text.

What is Tone?

400

Johnathan Edwards sermon used these techniques.

What is ethos, pathos, logos, and imagery?

400

Give me Liberty or Give me Death and The Crisis.

What are the two texts that sparked the American Revolution?

400

The woman lost her mind due to being cooped up in her room in hopes of curing her illness.

What is The Yellow Wallpaper?

400

Humans are innately good, intuition trumps logic and experience, idealism and self-reliance.

What are the beliefs of transcendentalism?

400

The Author of "Upon the Burning of Our House"?

Who is Anne Bradstreet?

500

Argumentative appeals (Ethos, Pathos, Logos)

What are techniques used to persuade people into thinking, believing, and/or doing something?

500

Puritans were responsible for this dark period of colonial New England .

What were the Salam Witch Trials?
500

This was the embodiment of the plague.

What is the Masque of the Red Death?
500

The 5 I's.

What are Intuition, Imagination, Inspiration, Idealism, and Individuality?

500

The timeline of American Literature discussed in Semester 1.

What is Native American, Puritan, Colonial/ Early American History, American Romanticism, Gothic, and Transcendentalism Literature?