Vocabulary
Lit Terms
Literature Periods
Literature Periods (cont)
Grammar
100
This word means to lose all of the color in your face. Ex. John Proctor's face _____________ when he learned that his wife would be taken to jail on suspicion of witchcraft.
What is blanched?
100
A comparison of 2 dissimilar things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
100
The literature period during which Edgar Allen Poe (The Raven) and Washington Irving (The Devil and Tom Walker) wrote.
What is Romanticism?
100
The literature period during which Anne Bradstreet wrote poetry.
What is Puritanism/Colonialism?
100
The form of "to go" that fits in the blank of the sentence below: When my parents asked me this morning, I told them that I had ___________ to the movies with my sister last night.
What is "gone"
200
to lose heart, to quake with fear
What is quail?
200
A literary device that describes when an author ascribes, or gives, human characteristics to non-human things.
What is personification?
200
The literature period that employs dark settings and exploration of the supernatural.
What is Romanticism?
200
The literary period in which authors were heavily influenced by the Civil War.
What is Realism?
200
In the sentence below, what is the piece of punctuation that must be used? Sherry was tired __ however, she continued to drive.
What is a semicolon (;)
300
unlucky, unfortunate
What is hapless?
300
an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference
What is allusion?
300
The author who is considered one of the founders of the philosophy of Transcendentalism.
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
300
The literary period in which authors emphasize the importance of human logic and science to answer life's questions.
What is The Age of Reason?
300
The seven words that FANBOYS stands for.
What is for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
400
socialble, talkative
What is gregarious?
400
refers to expressing ideas in the same grammatical form to create balance among words and ideas.
What is parallel structure?
400
The literary period during which authors were influenced by the fragmentation of the modern world and responded to it by construction their stories from fragments, leaving out expostions, transitions, and resolutions.
What is Modernism?
400
Time period during which writing was influenced by the disillusion resulting from World War I.
What is Modernism?
400
When connecting 2 independent clauses with one of the FANBOYS, what piece of punctuation must you use?
What is a comma?
500
to adopt or support an idea
What is espouse?
500
occurs in literature when some element of the work can be interpreted in several different ways
What is ambiguity?
500
Ben Franklin was a writer during this time period.
What is Age of Reason?
500
Author of Richard Cory, a Realistic poem that exposed the misery of an upperclass gentleman.
Who is Edwin Arlington Robinson?
500
The name for the verb form that follows had/have/will have in perfect tense.
What is past participle?
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