Name that Writer!
Themes
Quotes
Literary Devices
Vocabulary
100
He spend two years living alone in a cabin at Walden Pond.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
100
The common theme found in Emerson's essay, "Nature", and Thoreau's "Walden"
What is NATURE/the importance of NATURE?
100
"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?
100
A device used here by Longfellow to discuss the passage of time: The tide rises, the tide falls The twilight darkens, the curlew calls; Along the sea sands damp and brown The traveler hastens toward the town, And the tide rises, the tide falls.
What is SYMBOLISM?
100
Done consciously and intentionally.
What is DELIBERATE?
200
The Father of Transcendentalism
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
200
The unstoppable element of human life that Longfellow discusses in his poems, "A Psalm of Life" and "The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls"
What is TIME/the passage of TIME?
200
"Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist."
Who is EMERSON?
200
A device used here by Emerson: "Nature always wears the colors of the spirit."
What is PERSONIFICATION?
200
Of such excellence, grandeur, or beauty as to inspire great admiration or awe
What is SUBLIME?
300
This writer entered college at the age of 15 and was considered a child prodigy.
Who is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?
300
A theme connecting Fuller's "Women in the Nineteenth Century" and Emerson's "Self-Reliance"
What is INDEPENDENCE?
300
"Outward adversity came, and inward conflict, but that faith and self-respect had early been awakened which must always lead at last, to an outward serenity and an inward peace."
Who is MARGARET FULLER?
300
The way in which an author expresses their attitude/feeling toward something. For example, Emerson's attitude toward nature, as described here: "Nature is a setting that fits equally well a comic or a mourning piece. In good health, the air is a cordial of incredible virtue. Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration."
What is TONE?
300
A strong dislike or disinclination
What is AVERSION?
400
This writer tragically drowned in a shipwreck at age 40.
Who is Margaret Fuller?
400
Something that, according to Emerson and Thoreau, is awakened through experiences in nature.
What is IMAGINATION or PASSION?
400
"Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!"
Who is HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW?
400
A device used to create pictures in the mind of the reader, usually through the use of highly descriptive language. example: "For the first week, whenever I looked out on the pond it impressed me like a tarn high up on the side of a mountain, its bottom far above the surface of other lakes, and, as the sun arose, I saw it throwing off its nightly clothing of mist, and here and there, by degrees, its soft ripples or its smooth reflecting surface was revealed…"
What is IMAGERY?
400
A feeling of excitement, happiness, or elation
What is EXHILARATION?
500
This writer went to jail because he refused to pay his taxes.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
500
Something that Thoreau discusses in "Civil Disobedience" as being trapped by society/laws.
What is THE SELF or THE SPIRIT?
500
"I am not responsible for the successful working of the machinery of society. I am not the son of the engineer."
Who is THOREAU?
500
A device that Longfellow uses to create rhythm and musicality in his poem, "The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls".
What is a RHYME SCHEME?
500
Of or relating to a spiritual or nonphysical realm.
What is TRANSCENDENTAL?
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