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Early American Literature Periods
Early American Literature Periods
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1
The idea of “life is a test” was part of ...?
Puritanism
Patriotism
Transcendentalism
The enlightenment
2
“Tabula rasa” meant
That every person was born blank
Blank canvas
That every person was born good
3
Transcendentalists were completely against society institutions (Church, Government) because...
They were unjust and imposing like the Stamp Act
They corrupted the human (pure) spirit
They erased the tabula rasa
They imposed too many rules
4
Transcendentalists and their literature revolves around nature, because it was corrupted
True
False
5
The Five I’s of the Age of Reason/Enlightenment are: imagination, individuality, illusion, indifference & intuition
False
True
6
The enlightenment focused on God as a source of light and divine grace
False
True
7
Three writers of the Transcendentalism period were:
Whitman, Hemingway and Twain
Thoreau, Emerson and Jefferson
Dickinson, Parker and Bradstreet
Dickinson, Thoreau & Whitman
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Manifest Destiny ...
Explained how destiny worked
Was an idea that a person was chosen by God to help others
Was part of Puritanism
Was where the nation thought they were chosen by God to expand
9
The Age of Reason was part of The Enlightenment
True
False
10
The Revolutionary period was known as:
The industrial period
The Age of reason
The expansionist era
11
If transcendentalists thought that all of creation was unified, then ...
Every creature was a deity
The divine lived within every creature
God lived in all of us
12
Franklin wrote:
Common Sense
The Declaration of Independence
Poor Man’s Almanac
13
Bradford, C. Mann and Resendres are of the _______ period.
Colonial
Revolutionary
Transcendentalism
14
The Revolutionary literary period happened after the Fight for the Independence
False
True
15
Some writers of the Revolutionary period were:
Paine, Bradford and Equiano
Wheatley, Hamilton and James
Franklin, Jefferson, Henry, Paine
16
Puritanism was more popular in the Colonial era.
True
False
17
Two main types of writing of the Revolutionary period were:
Political writing & persuasive writing
Tips and informative essays
Oratory and prose
18
Thomas Paine wrote:
Common Sense
Poor Man’s Almanac
The Declaration of Independence
19
Thoreau was best known for his work regarding Common Sense
False
True
20
Narratives focused on:
A person’s ideas
A specific event in someone’s own life
Political ideas
A person’s entire life
21
Patriotism was the love and pride one felt for one’s country
False
True
22
Jefferson wrote:
The Declaration of Independence
Poor Man’s Almanac
Common sense
23
Narratives were another name for autobiography
False
True
24
Transcendentalists thought about the unity of all creation
False
True
25
Anne Bradstreet is a Transcendentalist
False
True
26
What are the three literary periods of Early America?
Revolutionary, Realist and Romanticism
Colonial, Revolutionary and Transcendentalism
Colorism, Modernist and Colonial
Narratives, Political and Naturalism
