Vocabulary
Property, especially a slave that is considered property
Chattel
This character's name alluded to a Bible parable about an object "of great price."
Pearl
This author was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens and took his pen name from a nautical term.
Mark Twain
This is the most common meter/rhythm in English poetry.
iambic (pentameter)
This is the worldview of Puritan literature and most writing, even lingering into writing into the mid-1800s.
Theism
One's strong point
forte
This symbol appeared frequently in the SL, meant to symbolize truth or innocence, while its opposite symbolized sin, shame, or hiding.
Light (light/dark)
This author of several autobiographies became a renowned orator and abolitionist after escaping slavery.
Frederick Douglass
This is unrhymed iambic pentameter.
This worldview of God as the Great Clockwinder was seen mainly in the founding documents of the United States.
Deism
conflicted; having opposing feelings
ambivalent
This nickname was used for Roger Chillingworth, symbolizing his profession.
Leech
This author claimed the inspiration for his story came from documents found in a trunk in the custom house where he worked.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
This is a reference to something outside the work, often to other literature, the Bible, or mythology.
allusion
These are three characteristics of Romanticism.
deep disgrace; dishonor
ignominy
This place symbolized both freedom and evil in the SL.
the forest
This man was considered the first truly modern American poet.
Walt Whitman
This is the term for two rhyming lines of poetry.
couplet
This worldview "tells it like it is" and relies on common experience, character, and human control of one's destiny.
Realism
acts of self-abasement meant to atone for sin
penance
Hester took on this occupation that both earned her money and was a form of penance for her wrongdoing.
What is sewing (clothes for the poor)
This reclusive author wrote nearly 1,800 poems, most of which were published only after her death.
Emily Dickinson
This is the term for the divisions of poems, like paragraphs in prose.
stanza
This was Jonathan Edwards's most famous sermon.
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
capable of feeling; conscious
sentient
After many years, the meaning of the Scarlet "A" according to some townspeople changed from adultery to __________.
Able
This author claimed to end his experimental living situation because he thought he "had several more lives to live , and could not spare any more time for that one."
Henry David Thoreau
This is non-literal poetic language, such as metaphor, simile, or personification.
figurative language
These are three of the four Fireside Poets.
Longfellow, Whittier, Lowell, Holmes (Bryant)
doubt or uncertainty about the existence of God
agnosticism
At the end of the novel, Boston was celebrating this festive holiday of the Puritan people.
Election Day
This man wrote Nature, considered the "Bible" of Transcendentalism.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A device in which an author creates a “story within a story”
framing
This is what Puritan John Winthrop wanted his Puritan settlement to be to the world.
a City on a Hill
fixed; unchanging
static
Dimmesdale finally did this at the end of his life, which he had denied Pearl before.
Stand on the scaffold with her in public
He was the author of stories supposedly told by Deitrich Knickerbocker and set in Dutch-settled New York state.
What is another word for the atmosphere an author creates through word choice and description?
mood
She was the presidential wife who made the best of life in the wilderness in which the White House was first located.
Abigail Adams
true sorrow for sins
penitence
Chillingworth said that this place was the only place in the world Dimmesdale could have escaped him.
the scaffold
This author created the modern detective story genre.
Edgar Allen Poe
This is the author’s attitude toward his or her subject.
Tone
This is the church or religion from which Transcendentalism was first associated.
Unitarian
natural change; changeability
vicissitude
This was one thing that was said about the supposed scarlet "A" seen on Dimmesdale's chest.
There wasn't one.
He had tortured it onto himself.
Chillingworth did it with magic and drugs.
It was eaten there by the tooth of remorse from the inside out.
This African-American slave poet argued in her poetry for the humanity of African people.
Phillis Wheatley
This kind of poetic meter has 8/6/8/6 syllables and is in iambic tetrameter/iambic trimeter. (And can be sung to the tune of Amazing Grace, Gilligan's Island theme song, or the Pokemon theme song!)
Common meter
This is who took Huck in to "sivilize" him.
Widow Douglas