1. Writers, Eras, and Literary Devices Review

2. Exam Format: Entirely Objective (Scantron)
13 matching of author to text
18 quote identification: choose author or story title for each quote
4 author compare/contrast
12 literary device identification
7 literary era identification: match era to description of it
50 story plot/character/theme questions/
11 character matching: Into the Wild
20 vocabulary matching: word to definition

3. She wrote “Upon the Burning of Our House.”
Anne Bradstreet

4. He wrote “The Devil and Tom Walker.”
Washington Irving

5. He wrote “Self-Reliance.”
Emerson

6. He wrote “The Interesting Narrative of Gustavus Vassa.”
Olaudah Equiano

7. He wrote Walden.
Henry David Thoreau

8. Wrote “To the Honorable General Washington”
Phillis Wheatley

9. He wrote The Autobiography of…
Benjamin Franklin

10. He wrote The Crucible
Arthur Miller

11. Thomas Paine belonged to this literary movement:
Age of Reason
Note: Phillis Wheatley also belonged to this movement. She encouraged George Washington in the fighting of the Revolution.

12. This person outlined a plan for moral perfection in his autobiography
Benjamin Franklin

13. He wrote Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer

14. These three writers incorporated Gothic elements into their short stories and poetry (name at least two).
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving and Edgar Allan Poe

15. The relationship between Emerson and _______________ was like a __________ and a student.
Thoreau; teacher

16. The phrase “Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship” is an example of a(n):
aphorism

17. What literary device is this
What literary device is this? “I looked upon the scene before me - upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain - upon the bleak walls - upon the vacant eye-like windows.” In this quote, the “vacant eye-like windows”
Personification

18. Literary device? “My cognisance of the pit had become known to the inquisitorial agents -- THE PIT, whose horrors had been destined for so bold a recusant as myself, THE PIT, typical of hell, and regarded by rumour as the Ultima Thule of all their punishments.” In this quote, “the pit” is a:
symbol

19. Which rhetorical appeal is used in this quote: “God Almighty will not give up a people to military destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to perish…”?
Pathos

20. What is the term that refers to the soul’s connection with God and nature?
The Over Soul

21. These two stories are based on, and are supposed to feel like, folktales:
“The Devil and Tom Walker” and “Rip Van Winkle”

22. The Chosen One, the Nagging Wife, and the Christ Figure are all examples of:
Stock characters

23. The poetic form of this verse is: “The world no longer let me love, / My hope and treasure lies above.” Note: The slash indicates the end of a line of poetry
Couplet

24. In this era, reason and intellect are considered mankind’s most important faculty (talent).
Age of Reason

25. In this era, emotions and feelings deserve more attention than reason and intellect.
Romanticism

26. In this era, writing is balanced between light, optimistic writing and dark, sinister writing.
Romanticism

27. In this era, the government was a theocracy.
Puritanism