Key Figures
Focus Period: 1800s
Poetic Structures
Sentence Variety
"Into the Woods"
100

Born into slavery; eventually became advisor to two American presidents

Who is Booker T. Washington?

100

A network of secret escape routes into the North and Canada

What is the Underground Railroad?

100

Sensory words that mimic the sounds they name

What is onomatopoeia?

100

Have a subject and verb but cannot stand alone as a complete thought

What is a dependent clause?

100
McCandless' destination, where he hoped to live off the land

What is Alaska?

200

An American author best known for capturing the diversity of the American people in his works

Who is Walt Whitman?

200
A tragic policy resulting in the relocation of 100,000 Native Americans

What is the Trail of Tears?

200

Poetry containing no meter, no rhyme scheme, and varying line lengths

What is free verse?

200

A single independent clause

What is a simple sentence?
200

Where McCandless' body is discovered

What is an abandoned bus?

300

Named as one of America's greatest poets and stylistically known for her unique use of dashes and capital letters

Who is Emily Dickinson?

300

The idea that it was an American right to settle on new land

What is Manifest Destiny?

300

List of people, objects, or situations

What is catalogue?

300

One independent clause and at least one subordinate clause

What is a complex sentence?

300

The name Chris McCandless adopts after leaving his old life behind

Who is Alexander Supertramp?

400

A leader of the Transcendalist movement which celebrated the individual and the power of the human mind

Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?

400
A machine that seperates cotton fibers from its seeds
What is the cotton gin?
400

The repetition of words at the beginnings of successive sentences or sections of a text

What is anaphora?

400

Two or more independent clauses

What is a compound sentence?
500

A literary movement that emphasizes the inherent goodness of people

What is transcendentalism?
500

The deadliest conflict in American history

What is the Civil War?

500
Names something that you can experience through your five senses
What is a concrete noun?
500

For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, and So

What are coordinating conjunctions?

500

An Alaskan landmark where McCandless begins his journey

What is the Stampede Trail?

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