The group of writers who came and wrote about how God was the center of their world.
Who are the Puritans?
100
This type of literature attempts to explain how something began.
What are origin myths?
100
A technique used to convey a meaning with the goal of persuading the listener to consider a topic from a different perspective.
What is a Rhetorical Device?
100
Words that describe other words or phrases and can be missing or misplaced in a sentence.
What are modifiers?
100
When a story is told by a narrator who knows some or all of what is going on and uses "he/she" to tell the story.
What is 3rd Person Point of View?
200
Ralph Waldo Emerson was a famous author during this literary movement.
What is Transcendentalism?
200
Words or expressions used which carry a different meaning than the literal interpretation.
What is figurative language?
200
A question which the writer already knows the answer to.
What is a Rhetorical Question?
200
Where the subject that performs the action is at the end of hte sentence and the object that is receiving the action is at the beginning of the sentence. This is backwards from how you would normally write or speak.
What is passive voice?
200
In poetry, this type of metrical foot has one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable.
What is an iamb?
300
Writers during this literary movement believed that indifferent nature, blind fate, heredity and pure chance determined the lives of men and women.
What is Naturalism?
300
Language that is used in a certain area or region.
What is dialect?
300
Expressing the same ideas using different words.
What is restatement?
300
When a verb is in one form, all of the verbs must be in that same form.
What is correct parallel structure?
300
December Day is an example of this sound device.
What is alliteration?
400
Just after the Civil War, American literature was most strongly marked by this literary movement.
What is Realism?
400
A repetition of words with similar, but not exact sounds.
What is slant rhyme or inexact rhyme?
400
Repeating certain words to show emphasis such as "I have a dream..." is an example of this rhetorical device.
What is Repetition?
400
When a pronoun is used correctly to replace the original word/name of something.
What is pronoun-antecedent agreement?
400
The author's attitude toward a topic and can be identified by the words the author uses.
What is tone?
500
He was a popular imagist poet.
Who is Ezra Pound?
500
A reference to another known work, story or well-known period of time.
What is an allusion?
500
Repeating a grammatical structure, such as "like father, like son."
What is Parallelism?
500
A subordinate clause that modifies a verb, adjective, adverb that tells where, when, why or how.
What is an adverb clause?
500
This mode or type of writing would be most appropriate for an essay about a summer that changed your life.