The title of the poem about a black bird that represents Poe's lost love, Lenore.
What is The Raven?
100
Name the term that means a life lesson or moral of the story.
What is theme?
100
The author's choice of words
What is Diction?
100
Literary Period that included the Gothics and the Transcendentals.
What is Romanticism?
200
A 19th Century American author who wrote the stories, "Rip Van Winkle", "The Devil and Tom Walker", and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
Who is Washington Irving?
200
The Arthur Miller play comparing the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 to the anti-communist movement of the early 1950's.
What is The Crucible?
200
The term that means: support lifted directly from text to support inferences, claims, and assertions to answer questions
What is Textual Evidence?
200
The author's attitude in the text.
What is Tone?
200
Literary period of Anne Bradstreet, Johnathan Edwards, William Bradford, and Christopher Columbus.
What is Puritanism?
300
This author died a mysterious death in Baltimore on October 7th, 1849. His last words were "Lord, help my poor soul."
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
300
Walt Whitman's 1865 poem about the death of Abraham Lincoln. Hint: It was also a famous phrase from the movie Dead Poet Society in which the students had to refer to Mr. Keating as this....(Famous ending scene words)
What is O Captain My Captain?
300
The term for: A logical conclusion drawn from the text that is not explicitly stated
What is inference?
300
Descriptive or figurative language that appeals to the five senses: sight, sound, touch, taste, smell
What is Imagery?
300
The first literary period we discussed. These were the first people on the land before the settlers. They worshiped the earth and all its inhabitants.
What is Native American Literature?
400
This author is a founding father. He helped write the Declaration of Independence and we read about his virtues in his autobiography.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
400
The story by Poe about two Italian gentlemen, one of which is seeking revenge. Fortunato, the wine drinker, gets walled in by the evil Montresor.
What is The Cask of Amontillado?
400
The term for: Specific words or phrases used by a certain person or about a certain subject.
What is Jargon?
400
Adjectives used to describe something in literature.
What is detail?
400
Literary period influenced by science and logic in the late 1700's.
What is the Enlightenment or The Age of Reason?
500
Considered an European settler. We read of his accounts with nature and the Indians in his journal, "Journal of the First Voyage."
Who is Christopher Columbus?
500
The sermon by Johnathan Edwards about how everyone is going to hell and that they must repent. He uses vivid imagery, similes, and metaphors throughout his speech.
What is Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God?
500
The term for: Specific words or phrases used by a certain person or about a certain subject..
What is Connotation?
500
arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences
What is syntax?
500
Literary Period of Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Steinbeck. The last period we studied.