Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Literary Terms 1
Literary Terms 2
The Enlightenment
100
a command or order
What is mandate?
100
without appropriate respect or seriousness
What is flippant?
100
A person, animal, or thing telling the story or giving an account of something.
What is a narrator?
100
Words that have several meanings depending on how they are used in a sentence.
What are multiple-meaning words?
100
The Enlightenment thinkers believed that man is inherently ______________?
What is good?
200
to go in separate ways or different directions
What is to diverge?
200
brave; unafraid; courageous
What is intrepid?
200
The position of the narrator in relation to the story, as indicated by the narrator’s outlook from which the events are depicted.
What is point of view?
200
The structure of a story. The sequence in which the author arranges events in a story.
What is plot?
200
He wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
300
to speed up; to ease the progress of something
What is to expedite?
300
native; naturally occurring in a region or place
What is indigenous?
300
A recurring subject, theme, or idea in literary work.
What is a motif?
300
An object or abstract idea given human qualities or human form.
What is personification?
300
This is another name for the Enlightenment?
What is the Age of Reason?
400
a strong rival or opponent
What is a nemesis?
400
a set of values or beliefs
What is a creed?
400
Text that aims to present ideas and evoke an emotional experience in the reader through the use of meter, imagery, and connotative and concrete words.
What is poetry?
400
Text that is not fictional; designed primarily to explain, argue, instruct, or describe rather than entertain. For the most part, its emphasis is factual.
What is nonfiction?
400
This war was fought during this literary movement.
What is the Revolutionary War?
500
a link; a go-between
What is liaison?
500
lacking energy; extremely drowsy or sleepy
What is lethargic?
500
A personal view, attitude, or appraisal
What is an opinion?
500
A story, factual or fictional, expressed orally or in text.
What is a narrative?
500
The main values of the Enlightenment thinkers were...? (Think of three)
What are SCIENCE, EDUCATION, INVENTION, INNOVATION, SELF-IMPROVEMENT, POLITICS, REASON, LOGIC, ETC.?
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