Literary Periods Writers Imagery Literary Devices

Predestination Colonialism 100

200 Heredity or Environment is powerful Naturalism

300 Optimistic about man and potential Transcendentalism

400 Focus on distinctive speech patterns and dialects Realism

500 A focus on the common good. Revolutionary

100 Not a Romantic writer: Poe, London, Irving, Hawthorne Jack London

200 Name the Transcendentalists who wrote “American Scholar” and “Civil Disobedience” Emerson and Thoreau

300 Wrote “Speech to the Second Virginia Convention” Patrick Henry

400 Wrote “The Fall of the House of Usher” Edgar Allan Poe

500 “Of Plymouth Plantation” William Bradford

100 Nathaniel Hawthorn

200 “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” John Edwards

300 “The Open Boat” Stephen Crane

400 Romantic writer who used folklore and superstition in his famous short story “Rip Van Winkle” Washington Irving

500 Anne Bradstreet

100 For the life of him, he couldn't figure why these East Enders called themselves black. He kept looking and looking, and the colors he found were gingersnap and light fudge and dark fudge and acorn and butter rum and cinnamon and burnt orange. But never licorice, which, to him, was real black. (excerpt from Maniac Magee) Visual

200 "The cold water touched her skin and she felt a shudder run down her spine." Tactile

300 "She smelled as sweet as roses." "I was awakened by the strong smell of a freshly brewed coffee." Olfactory

400 "With a wild rattle and clatter, and an inhuman abandonment of consideration not easy to be understood in these days, the carriage dashed through streets and swept round corners, with women screaming before it, and men clutching each other and clutching children out of its way. At last, swooping at a street corner by a fountain, one of its wheels came to a sickening little jolt, and there was a loud city from a number of voices, and the horses reared and plunged." (excerpt from 'A tale of two cities' by Charles Dickens) Kinesthetic

500 Tumbling through the ocean water after being overtaken by the monstrous wave, Mark unintentionally took a gulp of the briny, bitter mass, causing him to cough and gag." Gustatory

100 Simile

200 Allusion

300 Onomatopoeia

400 “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” Understatement

500 "Blue Moon, you saw me standing alone Without a dream in my heart Without a love of my own. (Lorenz Hart, "Blue Moon") Apostrophe

100 Metaphor

200 "It rained on his lousy tombstone, and it rained on the grass on his stomach. It rained all over the place." (Holden Caulfield in J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, 1951) Anaphora

300 Parody

400 “Damned Human Race” Satire

500 Personification