STEM Words
Define the following stem: extra
Double points if you can name and define a word with that stem.
beyond
A reference to something else
Allusion
Many Native American oral traditions are what kind of myth?
Creation myths
The Crucible takes place during what year?
1692
What years made up the American Romantic literary period?
Early 1800s-Early 1860s
Define the following stem: chron
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time
Repetition of consonant sounds
Consonance
Why did the explorers write home about the Americans’ abundant resources?
To get more people to come to the New World
Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible as a reaction and response to what event?
The Red Scare
How did the Romantic literary period change previous attitudes about nature?
Saw nature as divine rather than evil like the Puritans
Define the following stem: co
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together
When the same word is repeated at the end of sentences or clauses
Epistrophe
What tragic effect did the European settlers have on American Indians and why?
Caused death and destruction
Who is the author of The Scarlet Letter?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
What event led to the end of the American Romantic literary period?
The Civil War
Define the following stem: -a
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plural
Drawing a conclusion based on the evidence or support presented
Inference
Who were the Puritans and why did they come to America?
People that were searching for religious freedom and had begun to believe that Henry VIII had too much power over church and state and wanted to leave.
How is the author of The Scarlet Letter connected to The Crucible?
Nathaniel Hawthorne is related to the judge Hathorne that sentenced many innocent people to death.
Name 3 significant authors of the American Romantic period.
Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, etc.
Define the following stem: viv
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life
The feel of a piece of writing or a film that is created by the style or voice used
Tone
Match each myth to the correct tribe:
A. The Sky Tree
B. The Earth Only
C. Coyote Finishes His Work
1. Nez Perce
2. Huron
3.Teton Sioux
A & 2
B & 3
C & 1
Explain the change in the meaning of Hester's scarlet letter throughout the book.
What book did Harriet Beecher Stowe write in this period that Lincoln himself credited with raising the tensions that led to the Civil War?
Uncle Tom's Cabin