American Literature Final Exam PT1

Vocabulary flashcards covering early Native creation narratives, Colonial and Puritan literature, Revolutionary rhetoric, Abolition and Suffrage texts, and 19th-century American poetry.

The Iroquois Creation Story

A Native creation story featuring Turtle Island.

How the World was Made

A Cherokee creation story involving water beetles and soft mud.

Story of Creation (Pima)

A Pima creation account in which Doctor of the Earth created everything.

Mary Rowlandson

The first woman to publish a book in America; author of 'A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mary Rowlandson', which was considered one of America's first bestsellers.

Cotton Mather

Son and grandson of famous preachers who felt in their shadow; author of 'Wonders of the Invisible World' and 'The Trial of Martha Carrier', in which he claimed to be an observer or historian but spoke poorly and with bias about Carrier amid Salem hysteria.

Johnathan Edwards

Puritan preacher of 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God' who preached on the wrath of God and publicly condemned people and their sins from his pulpit.

Young Goodman Brown

A work by Nathaniel Hawthorne featuring Faith's pink ribbon, conveying the idea that public morality might not reflect private faith or morality.

Way to Wealth

A work by Benjamin Franklin containing aphorisms such as 'early to sleep and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise,' focused on uplifting the individual for the good of the community.

Ethos

A rhetorical appeal based on credibility, authority, and reliability.

Pathos

A rhetorical appeal to emotions, sympathy, and imagination.

Logos

A rhetorical appeal centered on logic, reason, and rationality.

Thomas Paine

Rhetorician of American Independence and author of 'Common Sense', 'The Crisis', and 'Age of Reason', known for using hyperbole and presenting readers with a choice.

Thomas Jefferson

Author of the Declaration of Independence.

Frederick Douglass

Abolitionist who held secret meetings to teach others to read and authored works including 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass', 'A Plea for Free Speech in Boston', and 'What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?'.

Anna Murray

The free wife of Frederick Douglass who supported him.

The North Star

An abolitionist publication written by Frederick Douglass with Martin Delaney advocating rights for Black people and women.

Compromise of 1820

Legislation referenced as placing bounties on free Black people and enslaved people alike.

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

The first African American woman to publish a short story; an abolitionist and suffragist whose works include 'Eliza Harris', 'The Slave Mother', 'Learning to Read', 'Ethiopia', 'Bury Me in a Free Land', and 'We Are All Bound Up Together'.

Harriet Jacobs

Abolitionist writer who used the pseudonym Linda Brent and authored 'Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl', addressing confinement and the mental and emotional toll of slavery.

Ain't I A Woman?

A notable speech delivered by abolitionist and women's rights advocate Sojourner Truth.

Declaration of Sentiments

A foundational women's rights document written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

A Petition for Universal Suffrage

A suffrage document created by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

19th Amendment

The amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women's suffrage.

Emily Dickinson

An introverted poet ($1830-1886$) from Boston, MA who explored botany, death, and spirituality without organized religion, writing poems with distinct capitalization, punctuation, and metaphors.

Lavinia Dickinson

The sister of Emily Dickinson who discovered almost $1{,}800$ poems after Emily died, of which only $10$ had been published during Emily's lifetime.