American Flashcards
There was a diverse oral tradition of literature among more than ______ Native American tribal culture
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Native American cultures ____________ sacred persons, deities, and even animals and plants. In addition, the political and social order of the tribes also varied:
There are councils, theocracies, and early forms of democracies.
American Literature took the form of _________ stories, legends, songs, tales, riddles, proverbs, fairy tales and epics
worshipped, creation
The coming of the ____________ brought about the written aspect of American literature.
English Colonists
Early accounts of the colonists’ exploits in the new world became part of the ___________, while also providing documentation for their countrymen back in _________.
American fabric, England
the religious movement that aimed to lead individuals to the light of God’s salvation.
Puritation
served to transform the colonized, and to ensure that the colonizers themselves would walk the right path
Puritan works
The historical period of the ___________-its onset, occurance, and aftermath brought about the rise of intellectuals who molded the identity of the new country.
American Revolution
pioneer of American lyrical poetry
Philip Freneau
was effective in using the Pamphlet
Thomas Paine
a prominent polemicist
Francis Hopkinson
Among the Founding Fathers of America, the writtings Benjamin Franklin, Alexander HAmilton and _________, who later became president of the United States, were especially powerful
Thomas Jefferson
the theater scene and the novel were also on the rise in the ______ century.
18th
The plays of ________ and __________ were infused with the theme of love for their newly liberated nation
William Dunlap and Royall Tyler
were among the earliest American novelists
William Hill Brown and Charles Brocken Brown
Their Lead were followed by ___________ (who wrote the story “Rip Van Winkle) and ________________ (who wrote the novel “The last of the Mohicans”). During this time, they were among the first American writers who won critical acclaim for the European literary screen.
Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper
Literary movements of the transcendentalism and romanticism surged in the ______ century.
19th
brought american flavor to the romantic movement that originated in Europe.
Edgar Allan Poe
The division and tension caused by the Civil War led to the creation of realistic, passionate works like ___________________ and ____________________________________
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (anti-slavery)
William Gilmore Simms’s The Sword and the Distaff (pro-slavery)
After the war, ___________ caught the attention of a national audience that sought the rebuilding of their fractured America
regional literatures
Poetry was revolutionized by
Emily Dickenson
Early 20th century, _____________ continued to push the boundaries of the genre
Ezra Pound and E.E Cummings
powerful poets
Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg
The ____ century marked the rise of literary criticism in America- a movement largely influenced by the poet.
20th, Ezra Pound
