Am Lit Milestones Review

Which of the following authors became famous for his horror writing during the Romantic period?

• Walt Whitman

• Edgar Allan Poe

• Kurt Vonnegut

• Thomas Jefferson

Religious writing was characteristic of which of the following time periods?

• Revolutionary

• Colonial/Puritan

• Modernism

• Realism

Urban life and African-American culture were focuses of which time period?

• Harlem Renaissance
• Colonial
• Modernism
• Naturalism

The Romantic period introduced an emphasis on ________________________________________

• guilt and sin.
• emotions, personality, and imagination.
• independence and self-sufficiency
• simple language and ordinary people

Which of the following authors became popular during the Harlem Renaissance?

• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Anne Bradstreet
• Langston Hughes

specific details from the text that support the author’s tone,

purpose, characterizations, or central theme. (RL1)

• inferences

• fiction

• textual evidence

• theme

adventure stories, historical fiction, mysteries, myths, science fiction, realistic fiction,

allegories, parodies, and satires (RL)

• fiction

• nonfiction

• drama

• essays

When a person mentions a specific portion of a text in order to support an analysis of the text. A person may choose to do so as a direct quotation (a word-for-word repeat of the text using quotation marks) or a paraphrase (rewriting the detail from the text in his or her own words).

(RL1)

• quote

• infer

• cite

• summarize

the deeper message or central idea about life and/or society that can be discerned from the reading of a text; the meaning the reader takes away from it.

• analysis

• characterization

• plot

• theme

The method used by the author to reveal a character to an audience.

• characterization

• mood

• chronological

• exposition