Finals Study Guide

Question 0

William Bradford

Answer 0

Of Plymouth plantation

Question 1

John Smith

Answer 1

The general history of Virginia

Question 2

Edward Taylor

Answer 2

Huswifery

Question 3

Anne Bradsteet

Answer 3

• To my dear and loving husband

- by night while others soundly slept

Question 4

Jonathan Edwards

Answer 4

• sinners in the hands of an angry God

- The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

Question 5

Benjamin Franklin

Answer 5

• the autobiography
• poor Richards almanac
• speech in the convention

Question 6

Thomas Paine

Answer 6

The crisis

Question 7

Patrick Henery

Answer 7

Speech in the Virginia convention

Question 8

M. G. J. de Crevècoeur

Answer 8

• letters from an American farmer

- the U.S constitution

Question 9

Washington Irving

Answer 9

The legend of sleepy hollow

Question 10

Walt Whitman

Answer 10

• song of myself
• O captain, My captain
• when I heard the learn’d astronomer
• I hear America singing

Question 11

Emily Dickinson

Answer 11

• Because I Could Not Stop for Death
• Water, is Taught by Thirst
• I Heard a Fly Buzz—When I Died
• There’s a Certain Slant of Light
• The Brain is Wider than the Sky

Question 12

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Answer 12

• Tide Rises, Tide Falls
• Psalm of Life
• Song of Hiawatha
• The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere

Question 13

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Answer 13

Old Ironsides

Question 14

William Cullen Bryant

Answer 14

Thanatopsis

Question 15

James Russell Lowell

Answer 15

The first snowfall

Question 16

Edgar Allen Poe

Answer 16

• the raven
• the bells
• Annabel lee

Question 17

Herman Melville

Answer 17

Moby Dick

Question 18

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Answer 18

The hollow in the three hills

Question 19

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Answer 19

• nature

- self-reliance

Question 20

Henry David Thoreau

Answer 20

• walden

- civil disobedience

Question 21

Puritans/early colonists

Answer 21

• John Smith
• William Bradford
• Edward Taylor
• Anne Bradstreet

Question 22

Enlightenment Thinkers/Founding Fathers

Answer 22

• Benjamin Franklin
• Thomas Paine
• Patrick Henry
• M. G. J. de Crevècoeur

Question 23

Romantics

Answer 23

• Washington Irving
• Walt Whitman
• Emily Dickinson

Question 24

Fireside poets

Answer 24

- Henry Wadsworth Lonfellow - Oliver Wendell Holmes - William Cullen Bryant - James Russell Lowell

Question 25

Gothic

Answer 25

Edgar Allen Poe

Question 26

Pessimists

Answer 26

- Herman Melville | - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Question 27

Transcendentalists

Answer 27

- Ralph Waldo Emerson | - Henry David Thoreau

Question 28

Appeal to reason

Answer 28

Using logic to help prove a point

Question 29

Slant rhyme

Answer 29

Filling a rhyme

Question 30

Allusion

Answer 30

an indirect reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, etc.

Question 31

Slogan

Answer 31

a phrase or short sentence that rallies people up

Question 32

Hyperbole

Answer 32

Exaggeration

Question 33

Internal rhyme

Answer 33

when two words in the same line rhyme

Question 34

Appeal to authority

Answer 34

using an authority figure to help prove a point

Question 35

Alltiteration

Answer 35

repetition of beginning consonant sounds

Question 36

Metephor

Answer 36

a figure of speech that implies a comparison between two unlike things

Question 37

Rhetorical questions

Answer 37

Question that doesn't have to be answered

Question 38

Repetition

Answer 38

repeated words or phrases, usually used for emphasis

Question 39

Appeal to emotion

Answer 39

using emotion to help prove a point

Question 40

Mood

Answer 40

The emotion of the piece

Question 41

Simile

Answer 41

a figure of speech that implies a comparison between two unlike things, using “like” or “as.”

Question 42

Parallelism

Answer 42

a repeated grammatical structure (parts of speech)

Question 43

Imagery

Answer 43

creates a picture in your mind

Question 44

Personification

Answer 44

giving a non-human creature or thing human-like characteristics

Question 45

True rhyme

Answer 45

normal rhyme - exactness

Question 46

Single effect

Answer 46

wants you to have one main idea/feeling/thought while reading it

Question 47

Gothic

Answer 47

Bleak or remote settings - Macabre or violent incidents - Characters in psychological and/or physical torment - Supernatural or otherworldly elements

Question 48

End rhyme

Answer 48

normal rhyme - location

Question 49

Native American Lit

Answer 49

- The Earth on Turtle’s Back - When Grizzlies Walked Upright - Iroquois Constitution