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American Lit
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca - explorer | La Relación - Journal of early American exploration experiences. |
| William Bradford - leader at Plymouth | Of Plymouth Plantation |
| Anne Bradstreet - Poet | Upon the Burning of Our House To My Dear and Loving Husband |
| Ben Franklin | Poor Richard's Almanac The Whistle |
| Patrick Henry | Speech to the Second Virginia Convention |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - Romanticism | Self-Reliance Nature |
| Henry David Thoreau - Romanticism | The Journal Walden Civil Disobedience |
| Edgar Allan Poe - Dark Romanticism | The Fall of the House of Usher The Raven The Pit and the Pendulum |
| Washington Irving - Dark Romanticism | The Devil and Tom Walker Legend of Sleepy Hollow Rip Van Winkle |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - Dark Romanticism | The Minister's Black Veil The Scarlet Letter The House of Seven Gables |
| Herman Melville- Dark Romanticism | Moby Dick |
| Walt Whitman - Civil War Era - poet | Cavalry Crossing a Ford; Beat! Beat! Drums!; I Hear America Singing; When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer |
| Emily Dickinson - Civil War Era - poet | The Lightening is a Yellow Fork; Because I could not stop for Death; If you were coming in the Fall |
| Sojourner Truth - Civil War Era - poet | And Ain't I a Woman? |
| Ambrose Bierce - Civil War Era | An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge; Nuggets and Dust Panned Out in California; Cobwebs from an Empty Shell |
| Willa Cather - Regionalism | O Pioneers! A Wagner Matinée |
| Edith Wharton - Regionalism | April Showers; Ethan Frome; The Reef; The Age of Innocence. |
| Kate Chopin - Regionalism | The Awakening; The Story of an Hour |
| Anton Chekhov - - Regionalism | The Darling |
| Gabriela Mistral - From Chile, Pulitzer Prize Winner - poet | Richness; Sonnets of Death |
| Stephen Crane | The Red Badge of Courage, The Open Boat |
| Jack London | The Call of the Wild, The Sea Wolf, White Fang; To Build a Fire |
| Upton Sinclair | The Jungle |