Homophones
Short Stories
Distinctly American
Literary Terms
Famous Poets
100
The correct form of (accept/except) when referring to receiving something.
What is "accept"?
100
The name of the Lieutenant General being honored in "Luck."
Who is Arthur Scoresby.
100
One of two groups (name either) that mark the beginning of American Literature.
Who were the Native Americans or the European Immigrants?
100
A comparison of two unlike things.
What is a metaphor?
100
Author of "I Hear America Singing;" he helped to popularize free verse.
Who is Walt Whitman?
200
The correct form of (they're/their/there) when referring to possession.
What is "their"?
200
The name of the school in "A Song for Selma."
What is Lincoln High School?
200
One of the primary causes of the Salem Witch Trials.
What is mass hysteria?
200
A universal meaning or message which is conveyed by a literary work.
What is a theme?
200
Literary movement focused on the idea that both people and nature are inherently "good."
What is transcendentalism?
300
The correct form of (principle/principal) when referring to an administrator of a school.
What is a "principal"?
300
George M. Helmholtz teaches this subject.
What is band?
300
Authors of this literary movement were very critical of the human condition.
What is Romanticism?
300
A brief reference within a work to another work or a well-know person or place.
What is an allusion?
300
Author of "nature" and student of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
400
The correct form of (than/then) when referring to the order of things.
What is "then"?
400
The writing strategy used by Poe in "The Tell-Tale Heart."
What is "single effect"?
400
Romantic author who wrote about the Puritans.
Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?
400
A story which usually includes heroes or the supernatural, explains things about the world and shows the values of a culture.
What is a myth?
400
Author of "Self Reliance," considered the "father" of transcendentalists.
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
500
The correct form of (affect/effect) when referring to the result of something.
What is "effect"?
500
The composer that Schroeder is compared to in "A Song For Selma."
Who is John Phillip Sousa.
500
Author of a play about the Salem Witch Trials that also alluded to McCarthyism.
Who is Arthur Miller?
500
A comparison of two unlike things which specifically uses "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
500
Author of "Hope is the thing with feathers" and nearly 1,800 other poems, fewer than a dozen were published during her lifetime.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
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