Schmitz/Voss American Studies
Fall 2015 English Final Review
Native Americans, Explorers, Puritans
Polytheism
Theocracy
Matriarchal
Patriarchal
Simile
Metaphor
Jonathon Edwards
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
“A Man to Send Rain Clouds”
Ann Bradstreet
“Upon the Burning of Our House”
“To My Dear and Loving Husband”
Primary document
Meter
Puritanism
Creation myth
Diction
Age of Reason
Benjamin Franklin
“Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”
Thomas Paine
“The Crisis”
“Common Sense”
Patrick Henry
“Speech to the Virginia Convention”
Crevecouer
“Letters from an American Farmer”
Audience
Repetition
Parallel structure
Rhetorical question
Allusion
Sensory detail
Imagery
Classical appeals (ethos, pathos, logos)
Romanticism and Transcendentalism
Washington Irving
“The Devil and Tom Walker”
Foreshadowing
Mood
Irony
Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment”
Allegory
Edgar Allan Poe
“The Raven”
“The Oval Portrait”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Self-Reliance”
Henry David Thoreau
“Walden”
“Civil Disobedience”
Walt Whitman
“Song of Myself”
“There Was a Child Went Forth”
Free verse
Civil War Era
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Realism
Satire
Themes
Characters
Conflicts
Dialect
Format
 Approximately 80 multiple
choice/matching covering terms
above
 Short fiction passage with
comprehension questions
 Short section of multiple choice
about a “student outline”