1. $200 $300 $400 $500 $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 $100 IN THE BEGINNING… THE FIRST SETTLERS ISN’T IT ROMANTIC? GOING INTO THE WOODS SITTING BY THE FIRESIDE

2. This category of literature consists of stories that were originally passed by word of mouth.

3. What is the oral tradition?

4. This a subcategory of the oral tradition in which explanations of how the first humans are created are offered.

5. What are creation myths?

6. This is the literary term for when authors endow animals or objects with human characteristics.

7. What is personification?

8. This Native American creation myth explains where the first humans came from and demonstrates a belief in the power of dreams.

9. What is “The Earth on Turtle’s Back”?

10. These are the modern equivalent to stories of the oral tradition.

11. What are urban legends?

12. He was an egotistical and brash figure, central to the founding of Jamestown, Virginia.

13. Who was John Smith?

14. This Puritan settler wrote an account of the founding of Plymouth plantation.

15. Who was William Bradford?

16. This genre presents an account of real historical events, written by someone who was involved in or witnessed those events.

17. What are historical narratives?

18. A selection in this genre would likely have been originally given by a priest or minister, within a house of worship.

19. What is a sermon?

20. He was the Puritan minister who composed and delivered “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” to his congregation.

21. Who was Jonathan Edwards?

22. This is another word for a “sixth sense,” a thing in which both the romantics and transcendentalists believed.

23. What is intuition?

24. He is the macabre author of both “The Raven” and “The Fall of the House of Usher”.

25. Who is Edgar A. Poe?

26. The literary theory holds that everything in a short story should build to one idea or feeling.

27. What is the “single effect”?

28. This story is about a man who sold his soul to the Devil for wealth.

29. What is “The Devil and Tom Walker”?

30. Romanticism was a response to this older literary and philosophical movement, which was cold and rational.

31. What is the Enlightenment?

32. A student of Emerson’s, he sought to put transcendentalist ideas into practice and “live deliberately.”

33. Who is Henry David Thoreau?

34. In this famous book, Thoreau records his experiences living in the woods for 2 years, 2 months, and 2 days…fictionalizing it as if it occurred over the course of a single year.

35. What is Walden?

36. He is known as the father of the transcendentalist movement.

37. Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?

38. According to the transcendentalists, mankind is connected and equal to this.

39. What is Nature?

40. This is the name for the connection between mankind, Nature, and God.

41. What is the over-soul?

42. The title of this poem is a made up word meaning “death vision”.

43. What is “Thanatopsis”?

44. According to poet William Cullen Bryant, this abstract concept is not to be feared, but embraced.

45. What is death?

46. This poet wrote “The Village Blacksmith.”

47. Who is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?

48. In “The Village Blacksmith,” the blacksmith’s brow is wet with this kind of sweat, indicating something about his work ethic.

49. What is honest?

50. Fireside poetry was intended to provide this to its readers, aside from entertainment.

51. What is comfort?