Phillis Wheatley Was North America’s first published African-American poet and second published woman On Being Brought from Africa to America Phyllis Wheatley To His Excellency General Washington Phyllis Wheatley Washington Irving Writes about nature in Read more…
unconscience having temporarily lost awareness; in a faint depths the deepest areas ancestors people from whom other people descend protruded stuck out exquisite very beautiful, delicate, carefully wrought afflicition something causing pain or suffering indications Read more…
What was the name of the main character in the cop and the Anthem Soapy Who wrote the pit and the pendulum Edgar Allan Poe What was the pen name of William Sidney porter O Read more…
False; tremendous amount of growth True of false: the romantic period was a time of little growth and change for the United States Distrust of civilization, nostalgia for the past, concern with individual freedom, interest Read more…
Signs of New Beginnings • Passing of the Frontier • Coming of Modern Transportation • Difficulties Within the Nation New Forces Changing American Society • Nation’s rapid industrialization • Charles Darwin’s theory of biological evolution Read more…
Diego Colon was a Taino Indian form the Behamas who was important because he made several voyages from the new world to Spain. Starting in 1492, the natives of the New World died in large Read more…
The Continental Nation (1865-1900): The ideas of Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer undermined the supernaturalistic basis of American morality. Mark Twain: Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Roughing It, Life on the Mississippi, The Read more…
I *Hero Initiation* Comes from partially divine background; Character might not fit in; to advance he has to prove himself Morally Ambiguous – Not perfect and easily to relate with Hero dies to be a Read more…
The periods of American literature are listed below: – Exploration Period and Colonial Period to 1776 – Revolutionary Period 1776 to 1787 – National Period 1787 to 1820 – Romantic Period 1820 to 1860 – Read more…
Naturalism application of Darwinism to literature Naturalism extreme form of Realism but with evolution as its base Naturalists had a distorted view of life, reality, and nature Emile Zola a major influence of the Naturalist Read more…
James whitcomb riley Wrote ” the frost is on the pumpkin” , also known for hossher poets Edwinmarkham Wrote “outwitted” R.G. Lee Preached ” evolution” Jonathan Edward Preached ” sinners in the hands of an Read more…
atrophy (v.) to waste away or fail to develop. efficacy (n.) the power to bring about the desired result; effectiveness. [efficacious (adj.)] emolument (n.) salary or fees for work done; compensation. icon (n.) a religious Read more…
wrote “The General History of Virginia.” John Smith wrote “The History of the Dividing Line.” William Byrd wrote “Of Plymouth Plantation.” William Bradford wrote “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” Jonathan Edwards part Read more…
Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) 1835-1910, San Francisco Circle, Local Color, “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” Writing with Sarcasm/Irony Bret Harte 1836-1902, San Francisco Circle, Local Color/Regionalism, “The Luck Of Roaring Camp,” Ambrose Read more…
Modernism A style in which the story focuses on the problems of the society around the characters. It can also focus on the details of the surroundings -Disjunction -Fragmentation -Alienation Popular Modernism -Populist modernism -Sympathy Read more…
How old was Equiano when he was kidnapped? 11 Equiano records he was born in what African country? Nigeria After being shipped to Barbados, he was sent to __________________? Virginia How old was Equiano when Read more…
regionalism literature that emphasizes a specific geographic setting and that reproduces the speech, behavior, and attitudes of the people who live in that region. local color A term applied to fiction which tends to place Read more…
to teach and to delight One of the driving questions of the Modernist period: what is the function of literature. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse Founded in 1913 by Harriet Monroe. Aided many modern poets Read more…
1. “Shovel them under and let me work.” 2. life’s troubles 3. build a barrier between people 4. awe 5. “I celebrate myself, and sing myself” 6. Although enticing, fame does not last and often Read more…
The Crucible – written by Arthur Miller – Set in the village of Salem, Massachusetts in 1692 – during the events of the Witch Trials – an analogy of 1950s McCarthyism Letters from an American Read more…