Literary Terms American Puritanism American Revolution Romanticism American
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Literary Terms American Puritanism American Revolution Romanticism American Realism 1 pt 1 pt 2 pt 2 pt 3 pt 3 pt 4 pt 4 pt 5 pt 5 pt
The repetition of initial consonant sounds
What is an alliteration?
The main idea or message in a story
What is a theme?
Person or thing in conflict with the main character
What is an antagonist?
A difference between how something appears to be and how it really is
What is irony?
Giving an inanimate object human characteristics
What is personification?
Anne Bradstreet
Who is America’s first female poet?
Mary Rowlandson
Who is Puritan wife who wrote Captivity Narratives after she was kidnapped?
Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass, and Mary Rowlandson
Who wrote Captivity Narratives?
Patrick Henry
Who was speaker during American Revolution? “…Give me liberty or give me death!”
Thomas Paine
Who is author of “Common Sense”?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who is the leader of the transcendental movement?
Henry David Thoreau
Who refused to pay taxes and spent one night in jail?
Plain style Writing
Who are the Puritans?
Author of Poor Richard’s Almanack
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
Queen of Slant Rhyme
Who is Emily Dickinson?
Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne
Who are Dark Romantics?
He wrote “I Hear America Singing”
Who is Walt Whitman?
Vernacular
What is the way people speak in a particular region?
A novel that takes the form of letters
What is epistolary novel?
When the story is told in chronological order
What is linear narrative?
A story that starts in the middle and is told using flashback
What is medias res?
An extreme form of realism that states that humans do not have free will and heredity determines people destiny
What is naturalism?
A belief that every human has an inner light that guides them to individual truth
What is transcendentalism?
The Puritan strain of thought was most important during this time
What is the 17 th century?
A time when Americans embarked on an era of expansions and profits
What is The Roaring Twenties?
Mark Twain
Who is the realist writer who introduced vernacular?