The Author
Literary Terms
Walden
Transcendentalism vs. Realism
MYSTERY!
100
He died at this age.
What is 44?
100
Short accounts of short incidents.
What are anecdotes?
100
Thoreau built his cabin at the pond in this year.
What is 1845?
100
Realism began in these years.
What are the early 1800s?
100
Sylvia's pet cat.
Who is Buster? MEOW!
200
"I went to the woods because I wished to live ______, to front only the essential facts of life." - Henry David Thoreau
What is deliberately?
200
Thoreau was this kind of writer.
What is transcendentalist?
200
Thoreau lived at Walden for this many years.
What is 2?
200
"I do not wish to be any more busy with my hands than is necessary." This quote by this author is an example of this.
What is Thoreau/transcendentalism?
200
Thoreau participated in this in the 1850s.
What is being a conductor on the underground railroad?
300
There were 3 of Thoreau's jobs.
What are working at his father’s pencil factory, opening up a school with his brother, working as a handyman for Ralph Waldo Emerson, tutoring Emerson’s sons, a land surveyor, and lecturing at the Concord Lyceum?
300
This kind of author wrote about everyday people and situations.
What are naturalists?
300
Thoreau's cabin was close to this town.
What is Concord, Massachusetts?
300
Thoreau's beliefs went ______ realism.
What is against?
300
Bayleigh's favorite snack.
What are pretzels?
400
Thoreau graduated from this college.
What is Harvard?
400
A piece of writing giving the author's argument.
What is an essay?
400
DAILY DOUBLE!
What is 10 feet by 15 feet?
400
Author's (were/weren't) heard in realism pieces.
What is weren't?
400
Thoreau's views on post offices.
What is unnecessary?
500
He resigned from a teaching position because of this.
What is refusing to abide by corporal punishment?
500
These are three literary terms in Thoreau's Walden.
What is anecdote, figurative language, and imagery?
500
Sylvia was at Walden pond in this year.
What is 2011?
500
This naturalist author published "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets" in 1893.
Who is Stephen Crane?
500
Katie's middle name is this.
What is MacKenzie?
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