1. 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2pt 3 pt 4pt 5 pt 1pt 2pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4pt 5 pt 1pt Literary Terms American Puritanism American Revolution American Romanticism American Realism

2. The repetition of initial consonant sounds

3. What is an alliteration?

4. The main idea or message in a story

5. What is a theme?

6. Person or thing in conflict with the main character

7. What is an antagonist?

8. A difference between how something appears to be and how it really is

9. What is irony?

10. Giving an inanimate object human characteristics

11. What is personification?

12. Anne Bradstreet

13. Who is America’s first female poet?

14. Mary Rowlandson

15. Who is Puritan wife who wrote Captivity Narratives after she was kidnapped?

16. Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass, and Mary Rowlandson

17. Who wrote Captivity Narratives?

18. Patrick Henry

19. Who was speaker during American Revolution? “…Give me liberty or give me death!”

20. Thomas Paine

21. Who is author of “Common Sense”?

22. Ralph Waldo Emerson

23. Who is the leader of the transcendental movement?

24. Henry David Thoreau

25. Who refused to pay taxes and spent one night in jail?

26. Plain style Writing

27. Who are the Puritans?

28. Author of Poor Richard’s Almanack

29. Who is Benjamin Franklin?

30. Queen of Slant Rhyme

31. Who is Emily Dickinson?

32. Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne

33. Who are Dark Romantics?

34. He wrote “I Hear America Singing”

35. Who is Walt Whitman?

36. Vernacular

37. What is the way people speak in a particular region?

38. A novel that takes the form of letters

39. What is epistolary novel?

40. When the story is told in chronological order

41. What is linear narrative?

42. A story that starts in the middle and is told using flashback

43. What is medias res?

44. An extreme form of realism that states that humans do not have free will and heredity determines people destiny

45. What is naturalism?

46. A belief that every human has an inner light that guides them to individual truth

47. What is transcendentalism?

48. The Puritan strain of thought was most important during this time

49. What is the 17 th century?

50. A time when Americans embarked on an era of expansions and profits

51. What is The Roaring Twenties?

52. Mark Twain

53. Who is the realist writer who introduced vernacular?