Identify the genre as defined: writing that exploits the speech, dress, mannerisms, habits of thought, and topography peculiar to a certain region, primarily for the portrayal of the life of a geographical setting. It is marked by dialect, eccentric characters, and sentimentalized pathos or whimsical humor.

Emily Dickinson often wrote poetry about death, but it could more accurately be called poetry about

I wanted to write another question about Emerson to reflect his influence on American literature and thought, but reading him hurts my head. So here is an easy one: Emerson is an American author.

What is the first and most attention-getting metaphor of Emerson’s essay “Nature”? His friend even drew a picture of this metaphor.

According to Emerson in “Self-Reliance,” for non-conformity

Identify the term as defined: the men who wrote the Constitution of the United States of America and who are tagged with the intent of “originalism” whether they believed in it or not

Identify the term defined as: A creation of the person who writes the literary selection; it is not the narrator. One way of understanding this creation is to see him or her as an idealized version of the human being behind the story, poem, novel, or drama

One way John Smith marked our nation was with his __________.

Why did Thoreau refuse to pay his poll tax?

Emily Dickinson often used metaphors in her poetry that acted as