Name two writers from the American Romantic period
Who is... (responses not limited to) Poe, Hawthorne, Irving, Longfellow, Bryant, Holmes, Thoreau, Emerson, Fuller, Dickinson
100
What are the 4 main ideas associated with Romanticism?
What is nature, the individual, imagination, and emotion?
100
The history of a word – its origin.
What is etymology?
100
Who is the author of The Crucible?
Who is Arthur Miller?
200
This rhetorical appeal triggers an emotional response in the reader/viewer. For example, the ASPCA commercial plays sad music and shows sad pictures of animals to influence you to donate.
What is pathos?
200
Practiced Civil Disobedience; inspired Ghandi and MLK
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
200
A group of new England poets whose work was morally uplifting and romantically engaging whose work was on equal footing with British writers.
What are The Fireside Poets?
200
A reference to a well-known person, place, event, work of art, or literary work.
What is an allusion?
200
What historical event occurs throughout The Crucible that is an allegory for the Red Scare?
What are The Salem Witch Trials?
300
I had a crazy music teacher in elementary school. Music teachers are all pretty crazy.
Non-sequitur
300
Leader of the Transcendentalists; wrote about Nature and Self-Reliance
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
300
Tenets include: living a simple life, having a relationship with nature, being an individual and relying on self, believing in the inherent goodness of people, and spiritual well-being is more important that financial.
What is Transcendentalism?
300
Repeating the same pattern of words, phrases, or sentences that have the same grammatical structure or that restate a similar idea. Ex: I am going to the grocery store, to the gym, and to the mall.
What is parallelism?
300
Who went on a “witch hunt” for communists and was responsible for McCarthyism and much of the “Red Scare.”
Who is Senatory Joseph McCarthy?
400
Four out of five dentists recommend Happy Glossy Smiley toothpaste brand. Therefore, it must be great.
Explored human capacity for evil, didn’t believe in innate goodness of people, emphasized emotion, nature, and individualism, and also called Dark or Brooding.
What is American Gothic?
400
The way in which linguistic elements (such as words) are put together to form sentences (as phrases or clauses) : the part of grammar dealing with this – sentence structure.
What is syntax?
400
Many entertainers were ______________ during the “Red Scare,” and were not employed for a long while.
What is blacklisted?
500
Most common logical fallacy; means "it does not necessarily follow"
What is non-sequiter?
500
Author of "The Devil and Tom Walker"
Who is Washington Irving?
500
This group was influenced strongly by European writers, believed nature was more inspirational than God, and reacted to the rationality of The Age of Reason.
What are The Early Romantics?
500
What are the three types of irony?
situation, verbal, dramatic
500
Why was it common for someone accused of witchcraft to confess even though they were not a witch?
What is the people who confessed were put in jail, while those who refused to confess were put to death