Vocab (df)
To furnish knowledge to; to give spiritual insight to; illuminate
e _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
enlighten
In addition to her success on the court, Lucy was an _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ role model for our students.
Hint: This word starts with 'e'
exemplary
In 17th century, the Puritans left England for religious persecution and founded the colony of _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ in America.
Plymouth
___________ has irregular meter and line length and sounds like natural speech long lines catalogued lists.
Hint: Whitman's poems
Free verse
What is the title of the following story?
Nick accompanies his father and uncle to an Indian pregnancy. The husband of the woman commits suicide.
Indian camp
auspicious; favorable; marked by success or economic well-being; flourish; thrive
p _ _ _ _ _ _
Where opinion is _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ to truth and reconciliation commissions, I am happy that the Committee should listen to it.
pertinent
Hint: literary technique / Faith
allegory
What is the meter of the following line?
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"
_____________ is the narrator who, in dealing with his own memories, conveys the horrors of the Vietnam War.
Tim O'Brien
hard to accomplish or achieve; difficult; marked by great labor or effort; hard to climb
a _ _ _ _ _ _
arduous
Her poetry is _____________ deep, religious feeling.
Hint: This is a kind of phrasal verb.
imbued with
Fire and Brimstone Preaching refers to a style of Christian preaching that aims to terrorize, nor is it solely a consolation sermon. An excellent example of it is Jonathan Edwards's _______________________________.
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Blank verse(s)
What symbolized bad luck for Huck and Jim?
a shed snakeskin
of or relating to another country; strikingly out of the ordinary; exceeding proper or reasonable limits or standards; remote from civilization
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ h
outlandish
The short answer is that the classical tradition is not _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _: different philosophers give different answers.
monolithic
___________ is the view that the basic truths of the universe lie beyond the knowledge we obtain from our sense. According to Emerson, human senses are limited; they convey knowledge of the physical world, but deeper truth can be grasped only through intuition.
What is the rhyme scheme of the following lines?
After Apple-picking by Robert Frost
My long two-pointed ladder’s sticking through a tree
Toward heaven still,
And there’s a barrel that I didn’t fill
Beside it, and there may be two or three
Apples I didn’t pick upon some bough.
But I am done with apple-picking now.
ABBACC
___________ is the literary movement that dominated American fiction from the 19th-20th centuries. Writers wanted to portray life without filtering it.
American realism
_ _ s _ _ _ _ _ _
insinuate
Your writing must speak to the world because if it is just about something that is very _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _, then it is hard to for an outsider to really understand.
Hint: parochial
Considering Civil Disobedience, which best describes one similarity between Thoreau and Martin Luther King, Jr.?
What is the theme of The End of Something?
The theme of the story is that things that might have worked in a previous life might not work in today's day, like Nick and Marjorie's marriage fishing or Horton's Bay and that it is time to get modern and move on.