American Literature and Arts

Speaker and author who stressed individualism

• Herman Melville
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Louis May Alcott
• Nathaniel Hawthorne

A movement that explored the relationship between humans and nature

• Naturalism
• Transformationism
• Transcendentalism
• Indvididualism

Author of Civil Disobedience who spent time living simply with nature at Walden Pond

• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Henry David Thoreau
• Herman Melville
• Washington Irving

Novelist who wrote about a white whale

• Henry David Thoreau
• Washington Irving
• Louis May Alcott
• Herman Melville

By the mid-1800's, Americans writers who had previously depended on Eurpoe for ideas began to write stories with American subjects.

• True
• False
• IDK
• Maybe

What were two themes about which American authors wrote during the mid-1800's?

• Slavery and Isolationism
• American Life and European Life
• Slavery and American Life
• American issues and Global Warming

He was a poet who wrote about American History.

• Walt Whitman
• John Greenleaf Whittier
• Henry Wadsworth Longellow
• Emily Dickinson

The art work of George Catlin portrayed...

• the destruction of the Native American.
• the landscapes of Europe.
• the dignity of Native Americans.
• the landscape of rivers.

Louisa May Alcott was noted for...

• the first believable heroine. 
• creating flat or static heroines.
• her free verse poetry.
• her psycholgical thrillers.