Literary Terms
Spoken from the point of view of the narrator or character using "I"
What is 1st person point of view
"To Build a Fire" contains this type of external conflict
What is man versus nature?
People from Massachusetts use this when they say cah, pahk, and yahd
What is dialect?
In his open-letter, "Civil Disobedience" Thoreau calls upon his readers to boycott this
What is taxes?
Protest Poetry serves this purpose
Spoken in the 3rd person from the vantage point of one character (he, she)
What is 3rd person limited
This tragic party had to resort to cannibalism to survive
What is the Donner Party?
Known for his use of humor and satire to ridicule people and places
Who is Mark Twain?
In addition to protesting the government's support of slavery, Thoreau boycotted paying taxes to the war between the United States and this country
What is Mexico?
Walt Whitman's two poems that provide contrasting perspectives of America
What are "I Hear America Singing" and "I Sit and Look Out"?
Spoken from the perspectives of multiple characters. Every character knows what's going on.
What is 3rd person omniscient
In the short story "To Build a Fire", the dog represents this
What is survival instinct (or instinct)?
A literary term naming the degree to which a story is believable
What is verisimilitude?
When it became dangerous for Frederick Douglass to speak before an audience, he stepped in to read his speech.
Who is Thoreau?
James Russell Lowell's protest poem argues a society is not free until this
When everyone is free?
Organizing topics into groups based upon shared characteristics, as in the poems "I Hear America Singing" and "I Sit and Look Out" by Walt Whitman
What is a catalogue
"To Build a Fire" is written in which point of view
What is 3rd person omniscient
The topography of Twain's stories take place mostly on this natural feature
What is the Mississippi River?
What is the Civil Rights' Movement?
To whom does Harper direct her protest poem "Free Labor"?
Who is the consumer?
It is a coming of age story about a young character developing moral judgment
What is a bildungsroman?
The setting of "To Build a Fire" places in ordinary man in this type of circumstance
Mark Twain, from Missouri, is known as this distinct type of writer (in addition to a satirist)
What is a regionalist?
Thoreau's civil disobedience inspired world leaders to employ passive resistance including this famous activist from India who fought again Colonialism
Who is Gandhi?
Lowell employs this metaphor to symbolize physical and spiritual bondage
What are chains?