American Literature Exam Review

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Across
  1. 2. Transcendental writer of women's issues
  2. 5. Sandburg's tribute to the windy city
  3. 8. Movement born in Boston led by Emerson
  4. 11. What Mark Twain called his age of the late 19th century
  5. 12. The sin of Adam and Eve that humans have inherited
  6. 15. Romantic folklore writer of New York
  7. 16. style concerning bleak ordinary life, an uncaring universe
  8. 18. Believer in the green light
  9. 19. Perhaps the first American writer to develop the idea of American Dream
  10. 21. writer who popularized self improvement and rags to riches themes
  11. 23. What the Puritans called those believed destined for Heaven
  12. 24. art style that featured medieval castles, death, dreary weather
Down
  1. 1. World war II is typically this age's ending point
  2. 2. Part Nick and part Gatsby, wrote to prove his love for a girl and his literary merit
  3. 3. War that divides Romantic from Realism eras
  4. 4. Thoreau practiced his transcendental beliefs at this woods and pond for two years
  5. 6. Horror story originator and poet, the Raven
  6. 7. Enlightenment concept of believing in God without a religion
  7. 9. Writing that captures a local set of customs, dialect
  8. 10. Era of bold experimentation in new styles, themes of pessimism and doubt
  9. 13. Eliot's important poem of alienation and doubt
  10. 14. Gothic writer who focused on secret sin and Puritan settings
  11. 17. poet who "sings himself and celebrates himself" in his Leaves of Grass
  12. 20. Revolutionary pamphlet writer, Common Sense, The Crisis
  13. 22. To Build a Fire writer