Vocabulary
This adjective describes someone who is friendly, pleasant, and easy to get along with.
What is amiable?
In his inaugural address, this president told Americans to “ask not what your country can do for you…”
Who is John F. Kennedy?
This poet wrote “Still I Rise.”
Who is Maya Angelou?
This character tears up his confession rather than sacrifice his name and integrity.
Who is John Proctor?
This symbol represents Gatsby’s hopes and dreams for the future with Daisy.
What is the green light?
This word means to delay or intentionally postpone action, often despite knowing better.
What is procrastinate?
This rhetorical device appears in the phrase “ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.”
What is antithesis?
In “Still I Rise,” Angelou compares herself to dust in order to use this literary device.
What is a simile?
Reverend Hale begins the play confident in the court, but later experiences this type of internal struggle.
What is internal conflict?
The Valley of Ashes symbolizes this hidden reality beneath the glamour of the Jazz Age.
What is moral and social decay?
This adjective describes a person who behaves with arrogant superiority or disdain toward others.
What is supercilious?
In his First Inaugural Address, this president claimed that “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This poem repeatedly challenges the idea that America has truly delivered equality and freedom to everyone.
What is Let America Be America Again?
Miller uses the Salem witch trials as an allegory for this historical event in 1950s America.
What is McCarthyism/The Red Scare?
Fitzgerald uses this character to represent the modern, independent woman of the 1920s.
Who is Jordan Baker?
These factors partially justify or lessen the seriousness of an action or mistake.
What are extenuating circumstances?
In his Second Inaugural Address, Lincoln repeatedly references scripture and religion, using this rhetorical device.
What are biblical allusions?
In Hughes’ poem, Let America Be America Again, the repeated phrase “I am” creates this effect by combining many marginalized voices into one speaker.
What is a collective/unifying voice?
The atmosphere in Salem is best characterized by this combination of emotions driving the accusations.
What are fear and suspicion?
Gatsby’s obsession with his mansion, shirts, and wealth reveals his mistaken belief in this idea.
What is the belief that money can win love or recreate the past?
This adjective describes language, ideas, or expressions that are overused and unoriginal.
What is hackneyed?
In his 2009 inaugural address, Obama emphasizes America’s “patchwork heritage” to appeal primarily to this rhetorical appeal.
What is pathos?
Both Hughes and Angelou ultimately argue that this idea survives despite oppression, inequality, and suffering.
What is hope/resilience in the American Dream?
Proctor’s line “I have known her” is significant because it reveals both his affair with Abigail and this larger theme.
What is the conflict between reputation and truth?
The final line about “boats against the current” develops this major theme of the novel.
What is the impossibility of escaping the past/the failure of the American Dream?