FINAL

Question 1

Pre 1600s

Answer 1

Native Americans
Oral literature
Epic narratives
Nature
Animals
Stories teach moral lessons

Question 2

1600-1800

Answer 2

Puritanism
Diaries and histories
Believed in orignal sin
Elect who will be saved
Plain style of writing
“Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God”
“Young Goodman Brown”

Question 3

1750-1800

Answer 3

Age of Reason/Enlightenment
Philosophers
Scientists
Editorials
Human beings arrive at truth by reasoning rather than faith
Frainklin’s Tenets, humor, free press, aversion to tyranny, idealism in foreign policy, compromise, tolerance, humility
Declaration of Independence

Question 4

1840-1860

Answer 4

Transcendentalism/The American Renaissance
Everything in the world is a reflection fo the Divine Soul
People use their intuition to reveal God’s spirit in nature or in their own souls
Self reliance and individualism must outweigh authority
Bind conformity to tradition
Emerson
Thoreau
“Into the Wild”

Question 5

1920-1940

Answer 5

Harlem Renaissance/The Jazz Age
Black cultural movement
Harlem, New York
Poetry rhytms bases on spirituals
Jazz
Lyrics on the blues
Poetry used conventional lyric forms
“A Raisin in the Sun”
“Harlem” by Langston Hughes

Question 6

1950-Present

Answer 6

Contemporary/Postmodernism
Influenced by media, language, and technology
Little is unique
Culture endlessly duplicates itself
New literary forms and techniques
Works composed of only dialogue
Combining fiction and nonfiction
Experimenting with physical appearance of work

Question 7

Aest/Esth

Answer 7

Perception
Feeling

Question 8

Cosm

Answer 8

Universe
World

Question 9

Antro

Answer 9

Human

Question 10

Aud

Answer 10

Hear

Question 11

Cracy/Crat

Answer 11

Government

Question 12

Hyper

Answer 12

Too much
Over

Question 13

Ject

Answer 13

Throw

Question 14

Graph/Gram

Answer 14

Writing
Drawing

Question 15

Cred

Answer 15

Believe

Question 16

Circum

Answer 16

Around

Question 17

Omni

Answer 17

All

Question 18

Scope

Answer 18

Watch
See

Question 19

Phobia

Answer 19

Fear

Question 20

Astro

Answer 20

Star

Question 21

Meter

Answer 21

Measure of

Question 22

Allegory

Answer 22

Same story, different character

Question 23

Allusion

Answer 23

Reference

Question 24

Colloquialism

Answer 24

Slang
Informality
Regional

Question 25

Aphorism

Answer 25

Bumper stickers
General truth

Question 26

Diction

Answer 26

Word choice

Question 27

Euphemism

Answer 27

Good speech
Easier/nicer way of saying something

Question 28

Juxtaposition

Answer 28

Comparing two things that aren’t alike

Question 29

Metonymy

Answer 29

One word that represents a larger area

Question 30

Narrative

Answer 30

Telling of a story

Question 31

Onomatopoeia

Answer 31

Figure of speech
Natural words are imitated in the sound of words

Question 32

Paradox

Answer 32

Statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense

Question 33

Parallelism

Answer 33

Repitition
Rhythm
Balance

Question 34

Pedantic

Answer 34

Overly technical
Scholarly tone

Question 35

Point of View

Answer 35

Perspective from which a story is told

Question 36

Syntax

Answer 36

Sentence structure and length