Blog

Identify the speaker:”He always has a company of twenty-five or thirty cavalry, with sabres drawn and held upright over their shoulders. They say this guard was against his personal wish, but he let his counselors have their way. The party makes no great show in uniform or horses. Mr. Lincoln on the saddle generally rides a good-sized, easy-going gray horse, is dress’d in plain black, somewhat rusty and dusty, wears a stiff black hat, and looks about as ordinary in attire, &c, as the commonest man.”

Identify the title where the following is found: grass of many years over a moss-grown burial stone with the face beneath turned to dust.

Identify the title: Is he not with his Father? So I trust.     Is he not His? Was he not also mine? His other’s empty arms yearn toward the dust.     Heaven lies too high, the soul is too divine. I wake at night and miss him from my breast, And—human words can never say the rest.   Safe? But out of the world, out of my sight!     I would not kiss him from the peace called Death? Think you, to give my bosom back his breath,      If there be light–is shut inside the skies. I am gone blind with weeping, and the light–     My way to him through utter darkness lies.

Identify the group: The painters of the upper New York area were known for the panoramic scenery of the landscape. Europeans did not believe the depictions were realistic because of the immensity of the natural settings and the beauty. These painters were friends of writers such as William Cullen Bryant. Thomas Cole was one of the most significant of this group of painters.

  Author described:   I wrote for the common individual with a message of political democracy. My propaganda helped the American Revolution be successful. My essay in January 1776 called for American independence from Britain, six months before the Declaration of Independence was written. I helped raise the morale of the continental army by my essay during the bleak time after Washington retreated in New Jersey in December 1776.  

Reason Rip Van Winkle is missing from his village for twenty years, a generation of time.

Author described:  Europeans were curious about America. Born in France, I was one of the first to perceive the significance of the frontier environment and to observe the blending of many nations into one. I tried to define this new person who inhabited America.

Identify: A form of literature extremely important to Native American culture, which had no written language. Leaders frequently addressed the community or served as spokesman. Wise men called on spiritual powers, leaders debated issues, warriors described battles.

Identify the literary trend: This literary movement concentrates on the dark side of human nature, often using the supernatural. The atmosphere is mysterious with the threat of unknown dangers. There may be dreams or visions. Often the setting involves dungeons, hidden rooms, or forests. Poe especially used this technique.

  Identify title of quote: Experience keeps a dear school, but Fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.–Dost thou love Life, then do not squander Time, for that’s the Stuff Life is made of.–Lost time is never found again.