Literary Terms
This quote about Chillingworth represents which literary term, "A writhing horror twisted itself across his features, like a snake gliding swiftly over them"
What is a simile?
This genre is characterized by failures of humans, explorations of the heart and mind, guilt and sin. (Name the the two authors and two texts we discussed for full points)
What is Dark Romanticism? (Emily Dickinson - Because I could not stop for Death, Poe - The Tell Tale Heart)
the three rhetorical appeals
What are ethos, pathos, and logos?
This author's work did not have titles.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
Hester Prynne's job.
What is Needlework?
This figurative device is used when Hawthorne displays David and Bathsheba on Dimmesdale's curtains
What is an allusion?
What is Puritan Literature? (Bradstreet - Upon the Burning of Our House, Edwards - Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, Taylor - Huswifery)
When Reverend Wilson asks Hester to think of the child's father and their love for each other in order to convince her to tell his name evokes this rhetorical appeal
What is pathos?
This author was accused of Communism.
Who is Arthur Miller?
Describe Dimmesdale and Hester's tombstones and what does it symbolize.
What is next to each other but not close enough to touch. Shows that they do not get to be together after death.
This quote from the Scarlet Letter uses this literary device "'Because I could not stop for Death he kindly stopped for me"
What is personification?
What is Revolutionary Literature? (Patrick Henry Speech to the Virginia Convention, Thomas Paine - Common Sense)
This rhetorical appeal is evoked when Judge Danforth and Judge Hathorne use their authority in courtroom scenes
What is ethos?
This author died in Baltimore.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
This character is an official of the court and makes poppets.
John Proctor listing the commandments but not being able to recall adultery is an example of which literary device?
What is irony?
This genre is marked by imagination, human values, and based on the past. (Name the author and text for full points)
What is Romanticism? (The Scarlet Letter - Hawthorne)
Henry used this rhetorical device to prove the answer is clear.
What are rhetorical questions?
This author's ancestors were involved in the Salem Witch Trials.
Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?
This character would rather hang more people than admit to being wrong.
Who is Judge Danforth?
In "Huswifery," Edward Taylor writes "Make me, O Lord, thy Spinning Wheel complete" using this literary device to compare two things. (Include what he compares for full points)
What is Extended Metaphor, his life to a spinning wheel/tool for God to use?
What is Antithesis?
This author is known as the most powerful speaker of the American Revolution.
Who is Patrick Henry?