Early American Literature Review

Leader of the Transcendentalists.

• Emerson

• Thoreau

• Dickinson

• Lowell

What was the common thread in the Native American communities (in relation to literature)?

Reverence for nature and the worship of many gods are two common themes in early Native American Literature?

• true

• false

What kind of story is "The World on the Turtle's Back?"

• Nonfiction / primary source

• creation myth

• folk tale

• fairy tale

Which story is a slave narrative?

• Of Plymouth Plantation

• The Interesting Narrative on the Life of Olaudah Equiano

• La Relacion

• Deer Woman

Who started his nonfiction primary source account by promising "to be brief" but then gave us six pages of run-on sentences?

• William Bradford

• Cabeza de Vaca

• Mourning Dove

• Olaudah Equiano

Which story explains why there is good and evil in the world?

• "Deer Woman"

• "The World on the Turtle's Back"

• "The Interesting Narrative on the Life of Olaudah Equiano"

• "Coyote Stories"

Who is considered the father of American literature?

• Mark Twain

• Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Washington Irving

• Edgar Allan Poe

Which work is an example of early American Puritan literature?

• The Scarlet Letter

• Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

• Leaves of Grass

• The Great Gatsby

What is a common theme in early American literature?

• Individualism

• Industrialization

• Colonialism

• Romanticism