Vocabulary
Showing religious devotion and reverence.
What is pious?
The atmosphere or emotional feeling created in a literary work.
The emotional appeal.
What is pathos?
The "Declaration of Independence" and "Speech in the Virginia Convention" would fall into this era of American Literature.
What is Age of Reason?
The initials "J.D." in J.D> Salinger's name stand for....
What is Jerome David?
Lively, animated, or full of energy.
What is vivacious?
The central message or lesson of a literary work.
What is theme?
The logical appeal.
What is logos?
American author known for writing "The Raven."
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
The highest grossing film of all time. (Taking inflation into account.)
What is Gone with the Wind?
A person who advocates for the abolition of slavery.
What is an abolitionist?
The author's attitude or feelings towards the subject.
What is tone?
The appeal to credibility.
What is ethos.
Era of literature focused on emotions and nature.
What is Romanticism?
The first Pixar movie.
What is Toy Story?
Evil, threatening, or suggesting harm or danger.
What is sinister?
Vivid and descriptive language that appeals to the senses.
What is imagery?
Repeating the same grammatical structure.
What is parallelism?
Era of literature focused on portraying reality.
What is Realism?
The name of Princess Leia's home planet in Star Wars.
What is Alderaan?
A disease, disorder, or ailment.
What is malady?
A comparison between two things to highlight their similarities.
What is analogy?
What is speaker, occasion, audience, purpose, subject, and tone?
The next era of literature after realism/naturalism (chronologically).
What is modernism?
It is what BMW stands for in the car industry.
What is Bavarian Motor Works?