Midterm Review Flashcards
American Exceptionalism
America is distinct and different from other nations.
- Divine favor
- Political pride
- Found especially in Winthrop’s “A Model of Christian Charity.”
Puritan/Plain Style
Simple, direct statements
Ordinary words
Discuss religion and relationships with God
The personal, routine daily things of life
Telling a story about ourselves
Enlightenment
Led to the American Revolution and creation of the United States.
- Ben Franklin
- Tommy J
- Becoming enlightened
Realism
Depicted contemporary, social realities
Pulling away from fantasy and focusing on the now
Rebecca Harding Davis & Life in the Iron Mills
Romance
Evocation or criticism of the past Cult of “sensibility” Isolation of the artist or narrator Respect for nature Based off the supernatural/occult (Hawthorne) and human psychology (Poe) -Rip Van Winkle -The Tell Tale Heart -Hawthorne’s work -
Allegory
Has characters that directly personify Represents specific things in the real world Characters represent specific others Limited Ex. The Chronicles of Narnia
Symbol
Can be anything (object, person, place)
Not specific the way an allegory is
Can take on any idea, interpretative, ambiguous
Like an allegory in that it is trying to get at deeper concepts
Nathanial Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” and “The Birthmark”
Gothic
Related to the supernatural Ancient, macabre, and has dark aspects Works to create an effect or sensation Can be wrapped up with sexuality 1780-1810 Edgar Allen Poe
Transcendentalism
Highly intellectual, draws on Great Conversation
Moral, spiritual, and intellectual greatness
The “ought” or how they are supposed to be
Nature is tied to spirituality and intellect
Unity of all things
Reaction to modern American life
Radical ideas
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau
“Walden” especially
Sentimentalism
Fiction written to influence the feelings of the reader
Primarily written by women
Effective in swaying audiences (Persuasion)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Frederick Douglass
Life in the Iron Mills
John Smith
A Description of New England
William Bradford
Of Plymouth Plantation
John Winthrop
A Model of Christian Charity
Conversion Writers
- Jonathon Edwards
- Joseph Smith
- Samson Occum
- Olaudah Equiano
Anne Bradstreet
“The Author to Her Book”
“To My Dear and Loving Husband”
“Before the Birth of One of Her Children”
“Verses upon the Burning of Our House”
Edward Taylor
“Huswifery”
“Meditation 8”
de Crevecoeur
“Description of Charlestown
Judith Sargent Murray
“On the Equality of the Sexes”
Phyllis Wheatley
“On Being Brought from Africa”
Washington Irving
“Rip Van Winkle”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Young Goodman Brown”
“Th Birthmark”
Edgar Allen Poe
“The Raven”
“Annabel Lee”
“The Tell Tale Heart”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The American Scholar
Divinity School Address
Henry David Thoreau
“Resistance to Civil Government”
“Economy” and “Where I Lived, and What I lived For” from Walden
William Cullen Bryant
“Thanatopsis”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“A Psalm of Life”
Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of a Slave
“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? Extract of an Oration”
Herman Melville
“Bartleby the Scrivener”
“The Portent”
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Walt Whitman
“Song of Myself”
“Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”
“When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”
Emily Dickinson
“‘Faith’ is a fine invention” “Success is counted sweetest” “Some keep the Sabbath going to Church” “I felt a funeral in my brain” “This World is not conclusion” “Because I could not stop for Death” “Tell all the Truth but tell it slant”
Rebecca Harding Davis
“Life in the Iron Mills
