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Transcendentalism
My Antonia
Whitman/Dickinson
Dark Romantics
Poetry Terms
100
The transcendentalists believe that everything in the world is a reflection of the ____________________.
What is Oversoul
100
Narrator of the novel
What is Jim
100
the long easy sweep of sound that echoes the Bible and the speeches of orators and speakers often used by Whitman in poetry
What is cadence
100
________________ is a Dark Romantic poet we studied in class.
What is Poe
100
repetition of like sounds
What is alliteration
200
People can use their_____________ to behold God's spirit revealed in nature.
What is intuition
200
farmhand from Virginia at the Burden place
What is Jake Marpole
200
poetry without rhyme or meter
What is free verse
200
Dark Romantics use the literary technique of ___________ to great effect in their works.
What is symbolism
200
comparison using like or as
What is SIMILE
300
A primary force behind the Transcendentalist movement= ________________ _____________ ______________
What is Ralph Waldo Emerson
300
Farm hand from Austria at the Burden place
What is Otto Fuchs
300
__________________was a very private poet.
What is Dickinson
300
evolved from the mystical and melancholy aspects of __________________ thought
What is Puritan
300
giving inanimate objects human like qualities
What is personification
400
lived at Walden Pond
What is Thoreau
400
Willa Cather's childhood home
What is Red Cloud, Nebraska
400
what kind of meter uses this format: 8 syllables in lines 1 and 3 and 6 syllables in lines 2 and 4
What is hymnbook meter
400
counterpoint to the optimism of ________________
What is transcendentalists
400
attitude a write takes toward subject or character
What is tone
500
Name one title of Transcendentalist literature.
What is Walden, Education, Nature, or Civil Disobedience ( among others)
500
Reason why Wick Cutter murders his wife
What is he does not want her to inherit his money
500
close but not exacting rhyme sound used by Dickinson in her poetry
What is slant rhyme
500
Wrote The Scarlet Letter
What is Nathaniel Hawthorne
500
langauge that appeals to the senses
What is imagery