American Literature Midterm 1 Flashcards (Oct. 2009)
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Narrative of Cabeza De Vaca | Cabeza De Vaca: Captivity narrative/Conversion narrative |
| The Generall Historie of Virginia | John Smith: Personal narrative/Jamestown/Beginnings of Plymouth Plantation |
| Of Plymouth Plantation | William Bradford: Separatists/Pilgrims |
| A Model of Christian Charity | John Winthrop: Separatists/Massachusetts Bay Colony/Puritanism |
| The Prologue | Anne Bradstreet |
| Upon the Burning of Our House | Anne Bradstreet |
| The Author to Her Book | Anne Bradstreet |
| Before the Birth of One of Her Children | Anne Bradstreet |
| A Letter To Her Husband, Absent Upon Public Employment | Anne Bradstreet |
| The Sovereignty and Goodness of God | Mary Rowlandson: Captivity narrative/Puritanism/Conversion narrative |
| Preparatory Meditations | Edward Taylor: Puritanism |
| Prologue | Edward Taylor |
| The Preface | Edward Taylor |
| Upon Wedlock and Death of Children | Edward Taylor |
| Upon a Spider Catching a Fly | Edward Taylor |
| Huswifery | Edward Taylor |
| Personal Narrative | Johnathan Edwards: Conversion narrative/Personal narrative |
| Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God | Johnathan Edwards: Puritanism/Declension/Great Awakening |
| The Autobiography | Benjamin Franklin: Enlightenment/Personal narrative/Age of Reason-Rationalism |
| The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano | Olaudah Equiano: Personal narrative/Slavery |
| A Short Narrative of my Life | Samson Occom: Personal narrative/Native American |
| Letters from an American Farmer | Crevecoeur: Early National Period/Literary Nationalism |
| Notes on the State of Virginia | Thomas Jefferson: Early National Period/Literary Nationalism/Sectarianism |
| Prologue to the Contrast | Royall Tyler: Sectarianism/Literary Nationalism |
| To Sir Toby | Philip Freneau: ENP/LN/S |
| On the Emigration to America | Freneau |
| The Wild Honeysuckle | Freneau |
| The Indian Burying Ground | Freneau |
| On Being Brought from Africa to America | Phillis Wheatley |
| To SM, a young African painter, on seeing his works | Phillis Wheatley: Religious Conversion/Adoption |
| To Cole, the painter departing for Europe | Bryant |
| To a Waterfowl | Bryant |
| The Praries | Bryant: American beauty/Romanticism |
| The Author's Account of Himself | Irving: Romanticism |
| Rip Van Winkle | Irving |
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