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Directions:: Early American Literature Review
Directions:: Early American Literature Review
Early American Literature Review
DIRECTIONS: As you review the lessons in this course, answer each of these questions.
1. What values are reflected in Native American oral literature? How might these cultural
beliefs help or hinder relations with the first European settlers?
2. Reread Patrick Henry’s speech to the Virginia Convention. What literary or rhetorical
devices does Henry use in his speech?
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3. Select your favorite work from the Romantic period in literary history. Summarize that story
or poem, and identify its Romantic themes.
4. Both Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson were considered radical in their choice of subject
matter for poetry. What was radical about the form and content of each poet’s work?
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5. In what ways did Realism differ from Romanticism, the literary movement that preceded it?
What caused this shift in taste among readers?