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American Lit Final
Semester 2 FCA American Literature Final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The author of Of Plymouth Plantation | William Bradford |
| The American author associated with the Indian captivity narrative | Mary Rowlandson |
| The author who first coined the phrase "separation of church and state" | John Winthrop |
| The name of the Puritan worship book | The Bay Psalm Book |
| The first Puritan writer to compose a sizable amount of poetic verse about colonial experiences | Anne Bradstreet |
| The pastor who preached "Sinners In the Hands of an Angry God" | Jonathan Edwards |
| The author who epitomizes the American dream | Benjamin Franklin |
| The revolutionary writer who composed political pamphlets and wrote The Age of Reason | Thomas Paine |
| The writer brought to Boston as a slave | Phylis Wheatley |
| The Knickerbocker writers | Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, William Cullen Bryant |
| The American Romantic "Fireside Poets" | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| The 4 cornerstones of American Romanticism | individualism, imagination, nature, the distant |
| The Father of American Transcendentalism | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| The Transcendental Optimists | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman |
| The Transcendental Pessimists | Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville |
| The author of "Self-Reliance" | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| The Transcendental writer who popularized the concept of civil disobedience | Henry David Thoreau |
| American Realist poetess who composed short untitled poems published posthumously | Emily Dickinson |
| Considered the mother of modern congregational singing, composed over 8000 hymns and 1000 poems | Fanny Crosby |
| Considered Master of Realism and authored Huckleberry Finn | Samuel Langhorne Clemens |
| Famous Naturalist writers who wrote 1) The Red Badge of Courage, and 2) Call of the Wild | Stephen Crane and Jack London |
| Pen name of William Cullen Bryant | O. Henry |
| Most famous American poet | Robert Frost |
| Wrote "The Wasteland" and "Journey of the Magi" | T.S. Eliot |
| Painter, poet, novelist, and playwright who experimented with capitalization, punctuation, coined words, syntax, and typography | e.e. cummings |
| Modern American poet who wrote "Fog", "Chicago", and "Grass" | Carl Sandburg |
| Modern black poet, "The Creation" | James Weldon Johnson |
| Names of the "Lost Generation" writers | F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway |
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