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Literary Terms
Writing
Crucible
Revolutionaries
Transcendentalists
100
the repetition of consonant sounds
Alliteration
100
Can you use the pronoun “I” in a personal essay?
Yes
100
Character who gives Elizabeth Proctor a poppet.
Mary Warren
100
who wrote "Crisis No. 1"
Thomas Paine
100
How did the Transcendentalists view God.
God is good and can be seen in everything.
200
Parallelism
repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structure
200
In the MLA format, which of the following is a correct method to cite quotations? a. (Connell p. 125). b) (Rainsford p 125). c) (Connell 125). d) (Connell page 127).
c) (Connell 125).
200
Who is pressed to death in the play?
Giles Corey
200
Define Logos
Appeal to logic. Using facts and statistics to persuade.
200
What happens to the traveler in "The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls"
He drowns and his presence is erased by the tide.
300
Inversion
a reversal of the expected order of words
300
Find the two writing problems in the sentence and correct the problems on the lines below. (consider this a literary analysis essay) In the novel, “The Alchemist,” Santiago traveled to the pyramids to uncover his treasure.
The Alchemist is a novel and must be in italics. ”traveled” must be changed to “travels” to stay in present tense
300
Identify the speaker. “Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.”
Hale
300
Identify the literary device used in this passage. "I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years, to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves, and the House? Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received?"
rhetorical question
300
According to "Nature," how should you attempt to view nature?
As a poet or a child.
400
a subtle – sometimes humorous – inconsistency; a hiding of what is actually the case
Irony
400
Identify the correct word (Your, You’re) first in line for the promotion.
You're
400
Identify the speaker. “Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!”
John Proctor
400
Thomas Paine compares the King of England to...
A common murderer or highwayman
400
According to Emerson, where can we “return to reason and faith”?
Nature
500
Foil
a character whose qualities or actions usually serve to emphasize the actions or qualities of the main character, the protagonist, by providing a strong contrast
500
Identify the correct word He told them (their, there, they’re) is not a legitimate reason to wait.
There
500
What does the forest symbolize?
evil, darkness, the unknown
500
What is the purpose of, "Speech to the Virginia Convention?"
To convince the delegates to fight.
500
What does Emerson mean by the statement “Nature always wears the colors of the spirit?"
Our own attitude impacts how we view nature.