The technique Thoreau uses when describing bird sounds "chip, chip, chip" (pg.246)
What is Onomatopoeia
100
The strategy Thoreau always uses when describing nature?
What is imagery
100
Strange, fantastic, ugly, incongruous, unpleasant, or disgusting
What is grotesque
100
What Thoreau discusses during the first pages of the chapter Spring?
What is the temperatures of the pond during winter
200
The example of figurative language this quotation reflects "[the sun] stretched itself and yawned like a waking man" (pg. 238)
What is a metaphor and personification
200
The technique that Thoreau uses in the following quotation: "O Death, where was thy sting? O Grave, where was thy victory, then?" (pg.251)
What is repetition
200
To follow a winding course
What is meandering
200
The bird that Thoreau observes on April 29th while fishing
What is a hawk
300
The example of figurative language in this quote: "In the right stage of the weather a pond fires its evening gun with great regularity" (Page.238)
What is Personification
300
The technique Thoreau uses when talking about the "29th of April?" (pg.250)
What is a flashback
300
Lasting only for a short time
What is transient?
300
The sound that the pond makes when the ice melts?
What is a booming ex. "thundering of the pond" (pg.238)
400
The example of figurative language in this quote:Ah! I have penetrated to those meadows on the morning of many a first spring day (Page 251)
What is an Interjection
400
The technique used: "Sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast...wrecks, the wilderness." (pg.251)
What is alliteration
400
Relating to cast-off matter from the body
What is excrementitious?
400
The animal that was laying dead in the path by Thoreau's house
What is a dead horse
500
The example of figurative language in this quote: "Even in Calidas' drama of Sacontala, we read of 'rills dyed yellow with the golden dust of the otus.'" (Page252)
What is an Allusion
500
The technique used by Thoreau in this quote "Like the creation of Cosmos out of Chaos and the realization of the Golden Age." (pg.248)
What is an allusion
500
Layers of skin or cuticle shed by animals during ecdysis