11 CP English: Midterm Exam Review
Title
“Upon the
Burning of
Our House”
“To My Dear
and Loving
Husband”
“Sinners in
the Hands of
an Angry
God”
Author
Plot/Characters/
Subject
Central Theme
Literary
Devices
Miscellaneous
Literary Period
Title
“from The
Autobiography
”
“from Poor
Richard’s
Almanac”
“from The
Crisis”
Author
Plot/Characters/
Subject
Central Theme
Literary
Devices
Miscellaneous
Literary Period
Title
“Thanatopsis”
“from Nature”
From “SelfReliance”
Author
Plot/Characters/
Subject
Central Theme
Literary
Devices
Miscellaneous
Literary Period
Title
“from
Walden”
“from
Resistance to
Civil
Government”
“The
Minister’s
Black Veil”
Author
Plot/Characters/
Subject
Central Theme
Literary
Devices
Miscellaneous
Literary Period
Title
“The Fall of
the House of
Usher”
“The Raven”
Author
Plot/Characters/
Subject
Central Theme
Literary
Devices
Miscellaneous
Literary
Period
Puritanism
General
The Elect
Characteristics/ Theocracy
Tenets/
Philosophy
Other characteristics:
The Four Literary Periods
Rationalism
Romanticism
Science/Scientific
Imagination
Method
Intuition over Reason
Logic
Nature
God acts as…
The Wisdom of the
Past
Other characteristics
Myth, Legend, Magic
American Masters
Experimentation in
subject and style
Whitman’s style:
Dickinson’s style
Transcendentalism
“the oversoul”
Contemplation
of
nature
and
meditation on one’s
place in the universe
reveals truth.