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Literary Movements
Literature 1
Literature 2
100
The Scarlet Letter and “The Minister’s Black Veil” are set during which of the following eras?
What is Puritanism?
100
What the veil symbolizes in "The Minister's Black Veil."
What is sin?
100
Themes and motifs prevalent in The Scarlet Letter.
What are revealed vs. secret sin, darkness and light, and hazards of hypocrisy?
200
Hawthorne composed The Scarlet Letter and “The Minister’s Black Veil” during which of the following eras?
What is Romanticism?
200
What sunlight symbolizes in The Scarlet Letter.
What is purity?
200
The person/entity who kills Rowena in Poe's "Ligeia."
Who is the embodiment of Ligeia within the bridal chambers?
300
The 3 beliefs of Transcendentalism.
What are that the universe is connected to the individual through nature; by contemplating nature, one can transcend the world and be united with the “Over-Soul"; one must follow his own intuitions and beliefs, no matter how they stray from society?
300
How one might describe the townspeople’s behavior toward the minister in “The Minister’s Black Veil” and toward Hester in The Scarlet Letter.
What is scornful?
300
The final solution Thoreau offers to the governmental problems he addresses in “Civil Disobedience."
What is to recognize and organize the rights of man?
400
Father of Transcendentalism.
Who is Emerson?
400
Examples of Pearl's duality.
Answers will vary (image in pond, behavior with Dimmesdale and Hester, etc.)
400
The rhetorical devices/appeals Jonathan Swift uses to achieve his purpose in “A Modest Proposal."
What are satire, pathos, and logos?
500
Detractor of Transcendentalism.
Who is Henry Melville?
500
Reflections of change in Chillingworth.
What is his physical appearance and deformity worsening as he becomes more evil?
500
The influences of the American Scholar as depicted in Emerson’s “The American Scholar."
What are nature, the mind of the Past, and action?