Question

Thomas Paine authored the pamphlet titled "Common Sense." To which period of American Literature did he belong?

A) Puritan/Colonial

B) Transcendentalism

C) Modernism

D)Revolutionary/Enlightenment/Age of Reason

Answer 1

D) Revolutionary/Enlightenment/Age of Reason

Step-by-step explanation:

Thomas Paine was an English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary. He authored Common Sense and The American Crisis, two of the most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and helped inspire the patriots in 1776 to declare independence from Great Britain. His ideas reflected Enlightenment-era ideals of transnational human rights. He also made/wrote Age of Reason.