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Mid-Term Literature
Literature information necessary for the mid-term exam.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| "Huswifery" | Taylor |
| first African-Ameican poet | Wheatley |
| died on the same day as John Adams | Thomas Jefferson |
| founder of Jamestown | John Smith |
| led the Great Awakening | Edwards |
| Letters from an American Farmer | Crevecoeur |
| Of Plymouth Plantation | Bradford |
| The History of the Dividing Line | Byrd |
| "To His Excellency General Washington" | Wheatley |
| wrote a journal of the trip on the Mayflower | Bradford |
| wrote a journal of a trip from Boston to New York in 1704 | Knight |
| The General History of Virginia, New Engand, and the Summer Isles | John Smith |
| "Address to Sarah Pierrepont" | Edwards |
| Preparatory Meditations | Taylor |
| Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral | Wheatley |
| The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America | Bradstreet |
| Day of Doom | Wigglesworth |
| "These are the times that try men's souls." | Paine |
| painted The Death of General Wolfe | West |
| "Make me, O Lord, Thy Spinning Wheel Complete" | Taylor |
| painted The Declaration of Independence | Trumbull |
| the first public school in America | Boston Latin School |
| first book published in America (non-novel) | Bay Psalm Book |
| the first newspaper in America | Boston Newsletter |
| America's first novel | Power of Sympathy |
| author of America's first novel | Brown |
| the dominant religion of the Southern settlements | Church of England (Anglican) |
| the dominant religion of the New England settlements | Puritanism |
| three subjects of Romantic writers | 1. The past 2. Nature 3. Inner world of human nature |
| Coooper's Leatherstocking Tales | The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, the Prairie, The Pathfinder, The Deerslayer |
| the first detective story ever written | "Murders in the Rue Morgue" |
| Poe's only novel | The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym |
| The Oval Portrait | Poe |
| "The Devil and Tom Walker" | Irving |
| The Spy | Cooper |
| A History of New York | Irving |
| "Rip Van Winkle" | Irving |
| "Thanatopsis" | Bryant |
| "To a Waterfowl" | Bryant |
| expelled from Yale because of poor grades and pranks | Cooper |
| "father of American poetry" | Bryant |
| Precaution | Cooper |
| "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" | Irving |
| the nineteenth-century, New York-based movement of landscape painters | Hudson River School |
| artist of "The Oxbow" | Cole |
| artist of "Thanatopsis" | Durand |
| artist of "Kindred Spirits" | Durand |
| the two men featured in "Kindred Spirits" | Cole and Bryant |
| artist of "Sunnyside" | Inness |
| the philosophy that romanticism replaced | classicism |
| artist of "Three Delaware Indians" | Catlin |
| translated Poe's works into French | Baudelaire |
| Billy Budd | Melville |
| "Civil Disobedience" | Thoreau |
| Evangeline | Longfellow |
| first editor of Atlantic Monthly | Lowell |
| "Young Goodman Brown" | Hawthorne |
| "I Never Saw a Moor" | Dickinson |
| "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls" | Longfellow |
| was a Quaker abolitionist | Whittier |
| professor of medicine at Harvard | Holmes |
| "Self-Reliance" | Emerson |
| helped to save the U.S.S. Constitution | Holmes |
| Battle-Pieces | Melville |
| "The Courtship of Miles Standish" | Longfellow |
| A Fable for Critics | Lowell |
| delivered our "cultural" Declaration of Independence | Emerson |
| "Old Ironsides" | Holmes |
| the only major writer who was both born in and died in Concord | Thoreau |
| badly burned in a fire | Longfellow |
| "A Narrow Fellow in the Grass" | Dickinson |
| "Paul Revere's Ride" | Longfellow |
| A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers | Thoreau |
| Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Mable Loomis Todd assembled this writer's collection | Dickinson |
| "Bartleby the Scrivener" | Melville |
| minister of the Second Unitarian Church in Boston | Emerson |
| The Vision of Sir Launfal | Lowell |
| a leading female transcendentalist who worked on The Dial | Fuller |
| wrote Little Women | Alcott |
| the artist of "Kaaterskill Falls" | Cole |
| the artist of photographs of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War | Matthew Brady |
| "Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!" | Thoreau |
| "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." | Thoreau |
| "Parting is all we know of heaven, / And all we need of hell." | Dickinson |
| "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of littleminds" | Emerson |
| "To be great is to be misunderstood." | Emerson |
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