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English Exam Reveiw
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who was a judge at the Salem Witch Trials? | Samuel Sewall |
| Who was the first woman poet of the colonies? | Anne Bradstreet |
| Who wrote "Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God?" | Jonothan Edwards |
| What were the four cornerstones of American Romanticism? | Individualism, Imagination, Nature, Distant |
| What were the literary groups formed during the Romaticism period? | Knickerbockers, Schoolroom Poets, Transcendental Optimists, and Pessimists |
| What were the two genres of writing during this time? | Novels, short stories |
| What was Deism? | An eighteenth century philosiphy |
| What event occurred in 1859 that brought more attacks against Christianity than any other source? | Darwin's "Origin of Species" |
| Who said "a work should be short enough to read in one sitting"? | Edgar Allan Poe |
| Who was the first American writer to acheive international fame? | Washington Irving |
| What author invented Nattie Bumpo? | James F. Cooper |
| Who presented Nature as a moral teacher? | William Cullen Bryant |
| Who wrote Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle? | Washington Irving |
| What new name did the Indian give Natty Bumpo? | Hawkeye |
| Who was the first professor-poet? | Longfellow |
| Who was a spokesman for abolition? | Whittier |
| Who was known as the old gray poet? | Walt Whitman |
| What does Thanatopsis mean? | resaignation for death |
| Who wrote Common Sense? | Tohmas Paine |
| How did Thoreau differ from his neighbors? | He didn't pay his poll tax, he did not marry, he did not work a regular job |
| Where did Thoreau live? | At Walden pond |
| What was Thoreau arrested for in 1846? | Not paying his poll tax |
| Why did Thoreau resign from his first teaching job? | He would not administer corpral punishment |
| What famous essay resulted from Thoreau's arrest? | Civil Disobedience |
| The best type of government | Is best when it governs not at all |
| Transcendentalists believe that God is | the oversoul |
| What is the green-apple theory? | The man keeps getting better and better over time |
| I am a transparent eyeball | I know all and see all |
| Who was Phyllis Wheatley? | The first black female poet |
| What are the three signs in the poem "When lilacs In the Dooryard Last Bloom'd"? | Lilacs, stars, and thrush |
| What are the publications that talked about Abraham Lincoln? | "When Lilacs In the Dooryard Last Bloom'd" and "O' Captain. My Captain" |
| Who was the Dial published by? | Emerson |
| What does transcendentalism mean? | Knowledge not known through the five senses |
| What poem was about the Revolutionary War? | "Concord Hymn" |
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