Authors and Works
Transcendentalism
Poetry
Main Ideas and Themes
Imagery and Symbols
100
Walden
Who is Thoreau
100
Where true reality is found
What is "in ideas"
100
Author of "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls"
Who is Longfellow?
100
Death is a natural part of life
What is "Thanatopsis"?
100
A traveler walking on a sandy beach
What is "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls"?
200
The Devil and Tom Walker
Who is Washington Irving
200
Best known transcendentalist author
Who is Emerson
200
Another name for popular poets of the American Romantic period
What is Fireside poets?
200
Be yourself--you don't need to follow the crowd.
What is "Walden"?
200
A tree that is green outside and rotten in the core
What is "The Devil and Tom Walker"?
300
Thantopsis
Who is William Cullen Bryant
300
The capacity to know things spontaneously through emotion rather than reason
What is intuition
300
Style of writing copied by American Romantic poets in an effort to appear sophisticated
What is English style?
300
Greed will lead to your downfall.
What is "The Devil and Tom Walker"?
300
Snow on a mountain
What is "The Cross of Snow"?
400
Nature
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson
400
This transcendentalist said, "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
Who is Thoreau?
400
Sonnet by Longfellow expressing his grief for his wife
What is "The Cross of Snow"
400
Human life is frail, while nature is of infinite power and endurance
What is "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls"?
400
A transparent eyeball
What is "Nature"?
500
Letter From Birmingham City Jail
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.
500
In this text, the author went to jail for failure to pay a tax.
What is "Resistance to Civil Government"?
500
A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
What is meter?
500
Even common things in nature are miraculous.
What is "Nature"?
500
Sad images of stern agony and shroud and pall and breathless darkness and the narrow house
What is "Thanatopsis"?
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