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Identify the author: Poet, fiction writer, and literary critic, he formulated the modern short story format and devised the only literary genre created by Americans–the short story. He is still among the most popular of American authors. Abandoned by his father, he lost his mother and wife to tuberculosis and often wrote about the death of a beautiful woman in his work. His work has Gothic elements.

When we watch a production of Hamlet, we enjoy the acting and the spectacle, but also find ourselves contemplating its themes, like the idea of revenge. What term describes this phenomenon?

  Identify the title of the quote: They gave me to understand we were to be carried to these white people’s country to work for them. I then was a little revived, and thought if it were no worse than working my situation was not so desperate; but still I feared I should be put to death, the white people looked and acted, as I thought, in so savage a manner; for I had never seen among any people such instances of brutal cruelty, and this is not only shown towards us blacks, but also to some of the whites themselves.

The suggestion Tecumseh is making to the six Native American tribes to deal with white immigrant invasion of their lands.

8 pt. paragraph answer: Compare two of the play performances you watched for this class in three specific ways. Do NOT discuss the plot (what happened). Instead, focus on THREE specific observations related to the actual production videos that were assigned, such as how they were costumed and staged. 

Who wrote the play “Trifles”?

The word thespian means _____.

Identify the title of the quote: Yes; there is a word of God; there is a revelation. THE WORD OF GOD IS THE CREATION WE BEHOLD; and it is in this world, which no human invention can counterfeit or alter, that God speaketh universally to man. It is only in the CREATION that all our ideas and conceptions of the word of God can unite. The creation speaketh a universal language. . . 

The occupation of Mary Rowlandson’s husband

  Author described:  Rational, practical, interested in the world, I represented the essence of the eighteenth century. I was able to retire at age 42 because of my shrewd business sense. I enjoyed inventing and making the quality of life better for everyone. I spent many years as a diplomat in England and France and participated in the writing of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. I was never president although my image is on one of the U. S. bills. Philadelphia was the city where I lived.