Authors Flashcards
1
Q
The dark romantic;
known for endings that are ambiguous;
Wrote The Scarlet Letter
A
Nathaniel Hawthorne
2
Q
Created the detective story;
Wrote the Raven, Telltale Heart
A
Edgar Allen Poe
3
Q
“Moby Dick” is America’s greatest prose epic tale of men’s pursuit of revenge
A
Herman Melville
4
Q
Big on Nature and self reliance?
A
Ralph Waldo Emerson
5
Q
Born in MA;
Went to Harvard was eccentric;
Into transcendentalism;
A
Henry David Thoreau
6
Q
Wrote I hear America Singing, song of myself, and o captain my captain
A
Walt whitman
7
Q
Write nearly 2,000 poems but published 7;
Afraid of open spaces;
Had five main themes
A
Emily Dickinson
8
Q
Father of American Literature;
wrote Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Devil & Tom Walker
A
Washington Irving
