This comparison uses "like," "as," and sometimes "than," as in "he is stronger than Hercules."
What is a simile?
100
This new friend of Huck's gets shot and killed due to an old family feud. [include last name for points]
Who is Buck Grangerford?
100
The use of the river and the raft to represent "freedom" in "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is an instance of what literary device?
What is symbolism?
100
The 1st and 6th "T" in TPCASTT both stand for this word.
What is title?
100
Thoreau and Emerson were best known for writing in this literary period.
What is Transcendentalism?
200
This rhetorical appeal is seen when characters try to bend other characters' decisions through emotion, rather than logic.
What is pathos?
200
Huck tries to escape this abusive, racist character.
Who is Pap?
200
In "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," when the king and duke refer to the Shakespearean play "Hamlet," the reference functions as this type of literary device.
What is allusion?
200
"Pedantic" or "insolent" could be descriptions within this section [spell out the whole word] of a TPCASTT.
What is attitude?
200
This literary period focused on a lot of religious writing, and didn't produce much fiction (or entertainment).
What is Puritanism?
300
Twain writes his dialogue out as it would have sounded from that particular speaker, which equates to this specialized literary device term.
What is vernacular?
300
This character ends up being the most caring person and best role model to Huck.
Who is Jim?
300
This is the literary device Twain employs when the uneducated Pap complains about the educated black man being able to vote.
What is irony?
300
The expectations of the "Connotation" section include ____ and _______ 3 different ___________.
What is "finding" (or identifying, etc.), "analyzing" (or explaining, etc.), and "literary devices" (or rhetorical devices, etc.)?
300
One of the main genres of the Rationalist period was this, often written down after its verbal version had already been performed.
What are speeches?
400
This occurs when one labels an entire subject by a noticeable part of it, such as calling British soldiers "red coats."
What is metonymy?
400
This character's death ends up freeing Jim.
Who is Miss Watson?
400
When Huck reaches his moral climax in chapter 31, Twain creates this literary device, a.k.a. the sending of the message that sometimes one has to go against convention to do what is truly right.
What is a theme?
400
The definition of "Shift" is this.
What is "identifying places where something in the poem changes course, like the rhyme scheme, tone, or plot"?
400
The Romanticism period was characterized by these 5 words.
What is imagination, intuition, inspiration, idealism, and individuality?
500
Huck speaks informally, often leaving out conjunctions such as "and" or "but," which happens to be a main characteristic of this literary device.
What is asyndeton?
500
These two characters run away just like Romeo & Juliet. [include last names for points]
Who are Sophia Grangerford and Harney Shepherdson?
500
The Grangerford versus Sheperdson feud acts as an allusion to these TWO stories (one historical, one fictional).
What is the Civil War and "Romeo and Juliet"?
500
The final T, "theme" can be described as what in Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven"?
What is "people need to learn to move on from grief to live healthy lives"? [numerous possible answers, but a theme must have a verb--it is a message, not just a topic]
500
These are the 6 American Literary periods we studied, in chronological order.
What are Puritanism, Rationalism (and Deism), Romanticism, Transcendentalism, Dark Romanticism (or Anti-Transcendentalism), and Realism?