Final Exam Flashcards
Time period characterized by a simple, plain, and direct style; genres included journals and diaries; theme was God’s providence
Colonial Era
Authors included in the Colonial Period:
- Anne Bradstreet
- Benjamin Franklin
- Edward Taylor
- John Smith
- John Winthrop
- Michael Wigglesworth
- Phillis (“Njambi”) Wheatley
- Roger Williams
- William Bradford
First poet to write verse in America (looks as if the girls win this one)
Anne Bradstreet
Wrote [Autobiography] and [Poor Richard’s Almanac] (he’s also a character in Assassin’s Creed: Rouge, AC: 3, and AC: Unity 😎)
Benjamin Franklin
Best Puritan poet, not published until 1939, and used metaphysical conceits
Edward Taylor
Affiliated with Pocahontas and Jamestown; wrote slightly exaggerated stories of his encounters; kissed Pocahontas in the historically inaccurate Disney movie (no, he wasn’t an ephebophile, and Pocahontas was only around 16 years old when he came to America. Screw Disney 😋)
John Smith
Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (M to W or W to M if you’re looking upside down)
John Winthrop
Most widely read Puritan poet (no, he is not affiliated with The WIGGLES in any way. He wrote about the apocolypse, guys. He wasn’t a fun dude)
Michael Wigglesworth
Second American woman to publish poetry, wrote “On Being Brought from Africa to America”, is Njambi’s ancestor (not really 👩🏿)
Philips Wheatley
Governor of Rhode Island; worked with Indians (because he wasn’t racist like everyone else 👦🏾)
Roger Williams
Father of American history; wrote [Of Plymouth Plantation]; the butthole who invented history 😒
William Bradford
Period characterized by derivations from myths and legends (because people were idiotically superstitious back then)
Romantic Era
Authors included in Romantic Era:
- Herman Melville
- Washington Irving (I thought he was black!)
- Edgar Allan Poe (the Kung-Fu Panda! No?)
- William Cullen Bryant
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- James Fenimore Cooper
- Emily Dickinson (REALLY IN HER OWN CATEGORY - what Mrs. Ellis said)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Wrote about Moby’s D-…I mean) Wrote [Moby Dick]
Herman Melville
First American author to be international famous; stories were based of Dutch legends (that thieving, racist son of a Baptist preacher!); wrote Rip Van Winkle (he is the dude I thought was black but was white)
Washington Irving
Wrote “The Pit and the Pendulum” and the criteria for short stories; (got his name from a certain panda who knows Kung-Fu and was extremely depressing and a weirdo)
Edgar Allan Poe
Wrote “Thanatopsis” (because he was a weirdo who meditated on Death)
William Cullen Bryant
Wrote the [Leatherstocking Tales] (probably got that name from looking at men wearing leather stockings, I mean, who else comes up with the name Natty BUMPOO?)
James Fenimore Cooper
Recluse who dressed in white (that’s totally not racist); ahead of her time (also the person that Mrs. Ellis screamed, “REALLY IN HER OWN CATEGORY!!!” like a maniac)
Emily Dickinson
Wrote the (SECOND CRAPPIEST BOOK IN HUMAN HISTORY aside from [Silas Marner]) [Scarlet Letter]; constantly used themes of sin a guilt (probably because he knew his book sucked and doomed a generation of Rosedale Baptist juniors to suffer)
Nathaniel Hawkthorne
Period involving the Over-soul (😂) and stems from Unitarianism.
Transcendentalist Era
Authors of the Transcendentalist Era (because they wanted to be primitive monkeys so bad):
- Ralph (“Where’s Waldo?!”) Waldo Emerson
- Henry David Thoreau (get it? ‘Cause he’s thorough? OK, shutting up)
- Walt (“Disney”) Whitman
Era characterized by traditional themes and the Schoolroom Poets (even if they probably never went to school):
Fireside
Authors of the Fireside Era (should’ve just burned them and their books 😈):
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (he was one “long” fellow)
- John Greenleaf (really? He couldn’t think of something better like Grayrock or Browntrunk?) Whittier (that has hints of racism…)
- Oliver (“Sherlock”) Wendell Holmes
- James Russell Lowell (pronounced “LOL”)
