Vocabulary
Meaning that is implied or alluded to within a word or phrase.
What is connotative meaning?
The author of "The CelebratedJumping Frog of Calaveras County" Whose real name is Samuel Clemens.
Who is Mark Twain?
This period of American Literature encompassed everything from the Revolutionary Era to Romanticism.
What is the Early National Period?
Noun, verb, pronoun, adjective, adverb, conjunction, preposition, interjection
What are the Parts of Speech?
The reason or intent of an author's writing.
What is author's purpose?
Words with multiple meanings
What is a homonym?
Master of Gothic fiction and inventor of the detective novel.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
The tenets of this literary period include valuing the individual above the group, subjective over the objective, and emotion over logic
What is American Romanticism?
A thing or event that exists before or logically precedes another.
What is an antecedent?
A brief paragraph that describes the main points of a larger piece of writing.
What is a summary?
The literal definition of a word
What is the denotative meaning?
A freed slave who wrote about the journey on the Middle Passage.
Who is Olaudah Equiano?
The movement that gave us Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau
What is Transcendentalism?
A noun phrase that comes after another noun phrase.
What is an appositive phrase?
The act of categorizing similarities and differences in writing.
What is comparing and contrasting?
Hints that the author gives to help define a difficult or unusual word.
What is a context clue?
Transcendental poet who brought his passion for life and alternate worldview to the fore through his works.
Who was Walt Whitman?
Best known for her local color, this purveyor of regionalism focused her works on Maine.
Who was Sarah Orne Jewett?
Use this when two words are shortened into one, or to show possession of a singular noun
What is an apostrophe?
Writing that uses strong sensory details to create an image in the mind of the reader.
What is descriptive writing?
The study of the origin of words is called this
What is etymology?
Consummate feminist and writer of "The Story of an Hour".
Who was Kate Chopin
This movement focused on ordinary people leading ordinary lives.
What is Realism?
The shortened version of two or more words that have been combined is called
What is a contraction?
The manner of expressing thought in language characteristic of an individual, period, school, or nation.
What is author's style?