Literary Terms and Vocab
Puritans
The Crucible
Revolutionaries
Transcendentalists
100
The definition of cajole is...
to coax or persuade through flattery
100
This group of people are the only ones destined for heaven.
The elect
100
What is the relationship between Abigail and John?
They had an affair.
100
Pathos is.....
An appeal to emotions
100
Who is "O'Captain, My Captain" about?
Abraham Lincoln
200
scholarly, learned, or bookish
erudite
200
what does the T in Tulip stand for?
Total depravity
200
What commandment does John forget to recite?
Thou shall not commit adultery.
200
What literary strategy is used in this passage? "The far and the near. The home counties and the back. The rich and the poor..."
Parallelism
200
Why did Thoreau go to the woods?
To learn from nature, to escape from society, and to live deliberately.
300
severely bitter or caustic; virulent
Vitriolic
300
Bradstreet writes, "That laid my goods now in the dust. Yea, so it was, and so ’twas just. It was His own, it was not mine, Far be it that I should repine; He might of all justly bereft"
She believes the fire was "just." Her possessions belong to God and it is God's right to take them away.
300
At the end of the play John has finally found his _____
Goodness
300
What literary term is used in this passage. "We have petitioned: we have remonstrated: we have supplicated: we have prostrated. . . . "
Restatement
300
"Simplify, simplify. Instead of three meals a day, if it be necessary eat but one; instead of a hundred dishes, five; and reduce other things in proportion." This quote reveals Thoreau’s philosophy that:
Live simply. Do not waste your time on unnecessary things.
400
lassitude
a state of physical or mental weariness; lack of energy
400
In "The Minister's Black Veil," Mr. Hooper says, “I look around me, and, lo! on every visage a Black Veil!” Explain the statement and the symbolic purpose of the veil.
Everyone has their own secret sin.
400
Who says this quote? Explain the quote. “Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you."
Abigail says this. She threatens the girls in the town in order to keep them from speaking about what happened in the forest.
400
What is in the first sentence of a rhetorical precis?
Name of author, [optional: a phrase describing author], genre and title of work date in parentheses (additional publishing information in parentheses or note); a rhetorically accurate verb (such as “assert,” “argue,” “suggest,” “imply,” “claim,” etc.); and a THAT clause containing the major assertion (thesis statement) of the work.
400
When did Thoreau move to the woods?
July 4th.
500
surreptitious
done in a secret way
500
According to Edwards, what is the only thing keeping the sinners from the fiery pit of infinite agony?
God's hand
500
Who says this? "I say--I say--God is dead!”
John Proctor
500
What literary device is this? Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise
Aphorism
500
The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls; What literary device is used in these lines?
Alliteration
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