In “Rip Van Winkle,” Dame Van Winkle symbolizes Old Mother England.
Identify the author of the following quote: I went to take u…
Identify the author of the following quote: I went to take up my dead child in my arms to carry it with me, but they bid me let it alone: there was no resisting, but goe I must and leave it.”
Although Cotton Mather was a skillful preacher and eminent t…
Although Cotton Mather was a skillful preacher and eminent theologian, it is his work as a historian that has earned him a significant place in Ameircan literature.
Which one of the following people does the main character in…
Which one of the following people does the main character in Hawthorne’s short story, “My Kinsman, Major Molineux,” NOT encounter during his strange night in Boston?
Identify the author of the following quote: “Make me, O Lord…
Identify the author of the following quote: “Make me, O Lord, Thy Spinning Wheel Complete.”
Mary Rowlandson’s captivity novel raises “the question of fr…
Mary Rowlandson’s captivity novel raises “the question of freedom, its meaning and its limits, in a new land newly dedicated to births of new freedoms” through its portrayal of a woman who neither embodies nor practices domestic virtue.
Identify this enlightenment thinker and author of Common Sen…
Identify this enlightenment thinker and author of Common Sense who was the most persuasive rhetorician of the cause for American independence.
Cotton Mather wrote biograhical sketches of __________ and _…
Cotton Mather wrote biograhical sketches of __________ and __________.
Harriet Jacobs used her narrative to highlight the unique cr…
Harriet Jacobs used her narrative to highlight the unique cruelties of the slavery experience by women, including sexual abuse, exploitation, and violence.
Identify the author of the following quote: “Man is not a f…
Identify the author of the following quote: “Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.”