Midterm Assessment: What You Should Know

Literary Time Periods: Please know the dates as well (look them up or refer back to the links that I had you post)
Pre-Colonial (Think Indian Creation Stories)
Colonial (Think Cabeza de Vaca and Columbus)
Puritan Era (Anne Bradstreet and Jonathan Edwards)
Nationalism (Jefferson)
Romanticism (Hawthorne)
Transcendentalism (Emerson and Thoreau)
Slave Narrative (Douglass, Jacobs)
Anti-Transcendentalism/American Gothic (Poe/Hawthorne)
Realism (Chopin, Gilman, Cahan, Washington, DuBois, Truth)

Ideaology
Cult of True Womanhood
One-drop Rule
Basic premise behind Reconstruction
The Rhetorical Triangle: Ethos, pathos, and logos. How they relate to author, audience and context
The City on the Hill

Fiction:
"Desiree's Baby"
"The Story of an Hour"
"A Sweatshop Romance"
"The Pit and Pendulum"
"The Fall of the House of Usher"
"The Masque of the Red Death"
"The Yellow Wallpaper"
Scarlet Letter

Non-Fiction
"The Atlanta Exposition"
The Souls of Black Folk chapter 1 and 3
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
"Learning to Read and Write"
"Aren't I a Woman"/ "Ain't I a Woman"
Narrative of Frederick Douglass ch. 1
Incidents in the Lifs of a Slave Girl: chapters 1, 7
"The Gettysburg Address"
"The Declaration of Independence"

Poetry
"To My Dear and Loving Husband"