Transcendentalism
This man is the "father" of the transcendentalist movement.
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
In "The First Snowfall," this shifts from observant to reflective.
What is the tone?
This is another name for dark romanticism.
What is gothic romanticism?
The error in this sentence is this kind of modifier:
Spiraling in outer space, Billy loves reading about the Andromeda galaxy.
What is a dangling (or misplaced) modifier?
This suffix means "sort" or "appearance"
What is -oid/-eidos?
In an act of civil disobedience, Thoreau was sent to jail for this crime.
What is not paying the poll tax?
In "The First Snowfall," the speaker is mourning this family member.
Who is his daughter?
Dark romanticism often included these elements, such as hearts that beat after death, talking animals, or monsters.
What are supernatural elements?
This is a verb masquerading as an adjective.
What is a participle?
This root word means "law" or "custom"
What is nomos?
Transcendentalists emphasized this as the most important teacher.
What is nature?
Who is Walt Whitman?
This dark romantic married his cousin, who later died of tuberculosis.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
All complete sentences in English must have a subject and one of these.
What is a verb?
This root word means "balance" or "weigh"
What is libra?
The transcendentalists valued free thinking and relying on this person.
Who is oneself?
DAILY DOUBLE!
Emily Dickinson wrote all her poetry in this meter.
Prince Prospero tried to hide from this disease.
What is the Red Death?
This is a verb masquerading as a noun.
What is a gerund?
This root word means "sustain" or "endure"
What is toler?
DAILY DOUBLE!
Transcendentalists idealized leaving this behind.
Emily Dickinson is famous for the use of this punctuation mark -- and we don't know for sure what she meant by them.
What is the dash?
Washington Irving told a terrifying tale of a headless horseman who haunted this town.
What is Sleepy Hollow?
If a verb is able to take a direct object, it is this kind of verb.
What is a transitive verb?
This root means "to strike"
What is fest?