Early American Literature
He wrote Of Plymoth Plantation about the settlement at Plymouth
Who is William Bradford
The dates of the American Romantic period
What are 1820 - 1865
He wrote, “The world exists for you” and “Build, therefore, your own world.”
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson
How long Rip Van Winkle was asleep
What is twenty years
The trade that Benjamin Franklin trained for
What is printing
The first permanent English settlement was established here in 1607
What is Jamestown, Virginia
The four cornerstones of American Romanticism
What are imagination, nature, the distant, and individualism
Emerson believed this about human nature
What is that man is essentially good
Rip Van Winkle’s bossy wife represented this “government.”
What is petticoat government
This writer most personifies the “American Dream.”
Who is Benjamin Franklin
The Puritans originally planned to land here before arriving in New England
What is Virginia
Who is described as the "leech" in The Scarlet Letter?
Who is Roger Chillingworth
The poet who wrote “Old Ironsides.”
Who is Oliver Wendell Holmes
In “The Purloined Letter,” the stolen letter was found here
What is hidden in plain sight, in the letter rack
Franklin was friends with this famous preacher
Who is George Whitefield
Jonathan Edwards' famous sermon that sparked religious fervor during the Great Awakening
What is "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
Who wrote about a man who fell asleep for twenty years?
Who is Washington Irving
He wrote “Mezzo Cammin,” a reflection on his life at mid-journey
Who is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Dupin solved the crime using this method
What is reasoning and empathy—thinking like the criminal
The most famous work of Samuel Clemens
What is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The people responded to Jonathan Edwards' sermon this way
What is they were deeply moved, emotional, and frightened into repentance
The four literary groups of American Romanticism
What are Transcendental Optimists, Transcendental Pessimists, New England School (Fireside Poets), and Knickerbockers
The poem with the line “Here once the embattled farmers stood / And fired the shot heard round the world.”
What is “The Concord Hymn”
The author of The Purloined Letter
Who is Edgar Allan Poe
Emily Dickinson is known for this personality trait and poetic style
What is her reclusive nature and short, untitled poems using dashes and slant rhyme