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Loading...Who wrote 'Of Plymouth Plantation'?
mediumWilliam Bradford
What is John Winthrop's 'A Model of Christian Charity' famous for?
hardThe 'city upon a hill' metaphor describing the Puritan mission in America
Who was Anne Bradstreet?
mediumAmerica's first published female poet, a Puritan who wrote about faith, family, and daily life
What was the primary purpose of Puritan literature?
mediumTo glorify God, instruct in moral behavior, and record God's providence in the New World
Who delivered the sermon 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God'?
mediumJonathan Edwards
Part of the Great Awakening
Who wrote 'Common Sense' (1776)?
easyThomas Paine
Who wrote 'Poor Richard's Almanack'?
easyBenjamin Franklin
What famous speech contains 'Give me liberty, or give me death!'?
easyPatrick Henry's speech to the Virginia Convention (1775)
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
mediumThe first published African American female poet, formerly enslaved
What type of writing dominated the Revolutionary period?
easyPolitical essays, speeches, and persuasive pamphlets arguing for independence and self-governance
Who wrote 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle'?
easyWashington Irving
Who wrote 'The Last of the Mohicans'?
mediumJames Fenimore Cooper
Who wrote 'The Scarlet Letter'?
easyNathaniel Hawthorne
Who is known as the father of the American short story and detective fiction?
easyEdgar Allan Poe
What are key characteristics of American Romanticism?
mediumEmphasis on emotion, imagination, individualism, nature, and the supernatural
Who wrote 'Moby-Dick'?
easyHerman Melville
Who wrote 'Self-Reliance' and 'Nature'?
easyRalph Waldo Emerson
Who wrote 'Walden' about living simply in nature?
easyHenry David Thoreau
What is Transcendentalism?
mediumA philosophical movement emphasizing individual intuition, the divinity of nature, and self-reliance over conformity
What is Thoreau's 'Civil Disobedience' about?
mediumThe duty to resist unjust government through nonviolent protest
Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?
easyWalt Whitman
Who is known for short, enigmatic poems often about death, nature, and immortality?
easyEmily Dickinson
She published fewer than a dozen poems in her lifetime
Who wrote 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'?
easyHarriet Beecher Stowe
What is the significance of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'?
mediumIt galvanized anti-slavery sentiment in the North and is credited with helping start the Civil War
Who wrote 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass'?
easyFrederick Douglass
Who wrote 'Little Women'?
easyLouisa May Alcott
What is a slave narrative?
easyAn autobiographical account written by a formerly enslaved person describing their experiences
Who wrote 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'?
easyMark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
What is literary realism?
mediumA movement depicting everyday life and characters as they actually are, without idealization
Who wrote 'The Call of the Wild'?
easyJack London
Who wrote 'The Red Badge of Courage'?
mediumStephen Crane
A Civil War novel written by someone who never fought in the war
What is naturalism in literature?
hardAn extreme form of realism showing how environment, heredity, and social forces shape human destiny
Who wrote 'The Great Gatsby'?
easyF. Scott Fitzgerald
Who wrote 'The Old Man and the Sea'?
easyErnest Hemingway
Who wrote 'The Grapes of Wrath'?
easyJohn Steinbeck
Who wrote 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?
easyHarper Lee
Who wrote 'The Sound and the Fury'?
mediumWilliam Faulkner
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
mediumA cultural, artistic, and literary movement centered in Harlem, NYC in the 1920s-30s celebrating African American culture
Who wrote the poem 'The Road Not Taken'?
easyRobert Frost
Who is known for poems like 'Harlem' ('A Dream Deferred') and 'I, Too'?
mediumLangston Hughes
What is a theme in literature?
easyThe central message or insight about life that the author conveys
What is an allegory?
mediumA story where characters and events represent abstract ideas or moral qualities
What is irony?
easyA contrast between what is expected and what actually occurs
What is symbolism?
easyUsing objects, characters, or events to represent larger ideas or concepts beyond their literal meaning
What is the difference between first-person and third-person narration?
easyFirst-person uses 'I' (narrator is a character); third-person uses 'he/she/they' (narrator is outside the story)