Literary Terms
Painting images with words.
What is imagery?
A literary movement that encompasses Gothic Romanticism and Transcendentalism.
What is Romanticism?
A person who goes against societal standards.
What is a nonconformist?
The underlying message of the story.
What is a theme?
A place, person, or object that represents an abstract idea.
What is a symbol?
Writer of "The Raven," "The Tell-Tale Heart," and other scary poems and stories.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
According to Emerson, "To be great is to be ___________."
Misunderstood
Overall feeling in a work of literature
What is mood?
The caretaker of Curious George
Who is The Man in the Yellow Hat?
Any detail in writing that appeals to the five senses (sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch).
What is sensory detail?
The remedy for the artificial toxicity of society/the city.
What is nature?
A famous poem by Walt Whitman, which is a tribute to President Lincoln.
What is "O Captain! My Captain!"?
Because of the harsh living and working condition as well as over crowding and pollution in the cities during this time, the Romantics became fascinated with _____
What is Nature?
This popular Disney movie, with Julie Andrews as the “practically perfect” nanny, was originally a novel written by P. L. Travers.
What is Mary Poppins?
"It's raining cats and dogs," is an example of this.
What is an idiom?
List several topics that Gothic Literature tends to explore.
Death, sickness, insanity, psychological disorders, the dark side of nature.
The Author of Self-Reliance
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Emerson's emphasis on ____ instead of on community, is one that is still a predominant idea in American culture.
What is the individual?
He wrote the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series.
Who is Jeff Kinney?
Give an example of an allusion.
Answers will very. (Examples: You're the Jim to my Pam, Herculean Strength, you're my kryptonite. )
Instead of reason, control, and conformity, what did Romantics value? (List 2)
Imagination, intuition, spontaneity, individualism
Give an example of a story/book/movie (not Dead Poets Society) that has Transcendental themes. Explain your answer.
Answers will vary.
The Romantic Movement was pushback against what?
The age of science and reason
At age 19, he became an editor at Timely Comics, and eventually created more than 300 characters in his name. (Bonus 100 Points if you get his REAL NAME)
Who is Stan Lee?
(Bonus Stanley Lieber)