Early Periods in American Literature

Question 1

Created the first detective story

Accepted Answer

Edgar Allan Poe

Question 2

What was the genre in the early to mid 19th century?

Accepted Answer

Romanticism

Question 3

What literary movement took place in the 1650's?

Accepted Answer

Puritan

Question 4

Who were the authors of the Earliest Literature?

Accepted Answer

Native American Tribes

Question 5

Onondaga tribe valued what according to "Earth on Turtle's Back"

Accepted Answer

dreams

Question 6

What was the genre or literary movement of the mid 19th century?

Accepted Answer

Transcendentalism

Question 7

Father of American Literature

Accepted Answer

Washington Iriving

Question 8

Wrote the first American novel

Accepted Answer

James Fenimore Cooper

Question 9

"Uniquely American"

Accepted Answer

slave narratives

Question 10

Which one is NOT a subordinating conjunction?

Accepted Answer

And

Question 11

Which one is NOT a subordinating conjunction?

Accepted Answer

Or

Question 12

Who wrote the slave narrative that we read in class?

Accepted Answer

Olaudah Equiano

Question 13

Who was NOT an author during the Puritan time period?

Accepted Answer

Washington Irving

Question 14

What were the characteristics during the Puritan time period?

Accepted Answer

All the above

Question 15

Who were the authors in the early to mid 19th century?

Accepted Answer

Both of these authors

Question 16

What characteristics did slave narratives have?

Accepted Answer

autobiographical accounts

Question 17

What writing characteristics did the authors have in 1766?

Accepted Answer

both are correct

Question 18

What is NOT a characteristic of Native American Myths/Legends?

Accepted Answer

writing should serve God

Question 19

Which animal retrieved "Earth"

Accepted Answer

muskrat

Question 20

In "The Devil and Tom Walker" who or what did the dead trees represent?

Accepted Answer

men who made a deal with the devil

Question 21

Nicknames Diedrich Knickerbocker and Geoffrey Crayon

Accepted Answer

Washington Irving

Question 22

Did not allow fiction or drama in their society

Accepted Answer

Puritans

Question 23

Which is NOT a conjunctive adverb?

Accepted Answer

Yet

Question 24

"Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..." was written in what time period?

Accepted Answer

mid 1700

Question 25

Which theme fits "The Devil and Tom Walker"

Accepted Answer

People should not lie and cheat

Question 26

Who wrote an essay in 1766 that we read in class?

Accepted Answer

Thomas Paine

Question 27

Which is NOT a conjunctive adverb?

Accepted Answer

For

Early Periods in American Literature

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Early Periods in American Literature

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