History of American Literature

According to Puritan, a person's fate is determined by...

• the man himself

• God

• God and the man himself

• nature

What were the examples of genres in Puritan?

• sermons

• poems

• biographies

• novels

When was the Revolutionary/Age of Reason?

• 1650-1750

• 1750-1800

• 1800-1860

• 1855-Civil War & Post War

What were the effects of Revolutionary/Age of Reason?

• Patriotism and pride

• Religion and pious

• expansion the nation

• American dream

What technology influenced Romanticism?

• ship

• book publishing

• telephone

• computer

Below are the genres of Romanticism, except...

• sermons

• frontier exploits

• character sketches

• slave narratives

When was the American Renaissance/?Transcendentalism

• 1650-1750

• 1750-1800

• 1800-1860

• 1840-1860

What do transcendentalists believe?

• True reality is spiritual.

• True reality is imagination.

• True imagination is spiritual.

• True imagination is reality.

Civil War brings literature into...

• realism

• naturalism

• transcendentalism

• romanticism

This trend aims to show more unpleasant, ugly shocking aspects of life...

• realism

• naturalism

• transcendentalism

• romanticism