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H.EnglishS1Exam A.
English 3 Honors Semester 1 Exam Authors
| Author | Term |
|---|---|
| John G. Neihardt | Translator of BES |
| Black Elk | Ogalala Lakota Sioux spiritual leader |
| Jack Gladstone | Singer/Songwriter about Native Americans |
| Thomas Jefferson | Wrote the Declaration of Independence |
| Patrick Henry | "Speech in the Virginia Convention"; said "Give me liberty or give me death" |
| Robinson Jeffers | "Shine, Perishing Republic" |
| Claude McKay | "America"; forceful writing method; Jamaican |
| Langston Hughes | "I, too"; Harlem Renaissance |
| Maxine Hong Kingston | Woman Warrior; special type of memoir |
| William Cullen Bryant | "Thanatopsis"; First mature American romantic |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | UTC; made asides to women and Christians to act |
| Ralph Waldo Emmerson | "Nature"; plain like a lecture; pandeist; transcendentalism |
| Thomas Paine | "The Crisis, No. 1" |
| Walt Whitman | "I Hear America Singing"; free verse |
| Joseph Campbell | Guru of mythology |