Unit 6 Flashcards
America’s first great imaginative writers
Knickerbockers
first writer of creative stories and sketches
Washington Irving
first novelist
James cooper
first eminent poet of nature
William Cullen Bryant
Author of “ A Republic of Prairie Dogs”
Washington Irving
where most of the great Romantic writers lived
New England
works of who involve highly imaginative, symbolic, and idealistic quests
Hawthorne, Melville, Poe
two visitors that come to the prairie dogs
owls
rattlesnakes
taught the young litter to bark
owl scared them
wrote “A Rescuer”
James Fenimore Cooper
young hunter reared by Delaware Indians
Natty Bumppo
Natty closest friend
young Delaware chief
first man to throw the tomahawk at Natty
Raven
Raven was__________ by his miss
humiliated
second man to throw the tomahawk at Natty
Moose
result of Moose’s throw
clipped Natty’s hair to tree
third man to throw tomahawk
Bounding Boy
result of Bounding Boy’s throw
hit cheek
second test for natty Bumppo
rifles in face
saved Natty from burn at stake
army
who saved Natty’s life
Chief Chingachook
wrote “Thanatopsis”
William Cullen Bryant
what did “Thanatopsis” say we will be reduce to when we die
dirt
what else did “Thanatopsis” say about death
- everyone will die
- you may not be remembered
