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WORD SMART VOCABULARY SECTION
Belaboringbeleagueredbeliedbelittlebelligerent
Attritionaudaciousaugmentaugmentarianauspicious
Autonomousavariceavowedavuncularawry
Abashabateabjectionabnegateabridge
Accostingamenableassimilateassuageastute
beset blightfulbroachcategorycatharsis
catholiccausticcelibacycensoriouscensure
Axiombanalbanebastionbegets
bemusedbeneficiarybenignbequeathedbereaved
cerebralchagrincharismamalefactors malevolent
mediatedmendicantsparochial
American Renaissance
The Transcendentalist view of the world?
Dark Romantics and the Transcendentalists
What was the American Renaissance directly influenced by?
What about Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville?
The philosophy embraced by Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Transcendentalists had its roots where?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What can we conclude about the female subject of “The Cross of Snow”?
In “The Cross of Snow,” the images of a halo, fire and sunlight contrast with what?
In “The Tide Rises,the Tide Falls,”the rising and falling of the tide suggests what?
The principal message conveyed in “The Tide Rises,the Tide Falls”is what?
The repeated last line of each stanza in “The Tide Rises,the Tide Falls”is meant to convey what idea or ideas?
In “The Cross of Snow,” the cross that the speaker wears what?
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
What did slaves sing most about?
How did Douglass first begin to learn to write?
What is meant by, "mere covering for the most horrid crimes."
What trade did Douglass learn?
According to Douglass, what kind of comments did slaves usually make about their owners?
How did Douglass learn to read?
What did Douglass say about learning?
How did Douglass feel about the underground railroad?
What did Douglass consider a step toward freedom?
What was the primary characteristic of "slaveholding religion"?
Washington Irving: The Devil and Tom Walker
Humor?
Symbols in story?
Predictions?\
Stories mood?
Archetype??
William Cullen Bryant: Thanatopsis
Which facet of “Thanatopsis” makes it a good example of Romantic poetry?
What is the tone of “Thanatopsis”
What does the poet to find comfort in?
The Cycle in Thanatopsis
“Thanatopsis” strongly suggests that human beings are what?
Inverted sentences in Thanatopsis
“Thanatopsis,” views death how?
Edgar Allan Poe: Pit and the Pendulum and The Raven
What happens at the end of the story?
The speaker of the Raven??
What does the repetition of Nevermore symbolize?
What can we infer at the end of the poem about the narrator?
The mood of this story is?
Point of view of Pit and the Pendulum?
What about the changing candles in these quotes: “slender angels” to “meaningless spectres”?
A symbol is what?
Alliteration in poem
Onomatopoeia?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is Emerson’s attitude toward society?
According to Emerson, why can children truly see nature?
What about Emerson’s spirituality?
Emerson states that the most sacred aspect of a person is what?
What are Emerson’s philosophies?
Why does Emerson say that in the woods, “The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental”?
In Nature, statements such as “I am nothing. I see all,” illustrate what?
Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau’s philosophies/beleifs?
Thoreau’s idea about democracy in his time?
Thoreau’s attitude toward government before and after he was jailed?
What reason does Thoreau give for wanting to live at Walden?
What does this quote mean: “We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Minister’s Black Veil
Why is “The Minister’s Black Veil” a parable?
Why foes Mr. Hooper choose to look physically different from other people?\
What was Mr. Hooper like before and after he had put on the black veil?
According to Mr. Hooper, the veil is a symbol for what?
The Quarter Deck: Herman Melville
Ahab
What are some of the characteristics for which Moby-Dick is known?
Ahab’s madness?
Why does Ahab nail the gold piece to the mast?
Why doesStarbuck raise an objection to the pursuit of Moby Dick?
What does Moby-Dick represent?
What is the deal with Captain Ahab’s ceremony on deck?
What about the descriptions of Starbuck?
The ship can be read as a symbol of what?
Huckleberry Finn: Mark Twain
Huck Finn Tom SawyerWidow DouglasMiss Watson Jim Pap
Judge Thatcher Jim Turner The Grangerfords Duke and King Boggs
Col SherburnPeter Wilks Silas Phelps Aunt SallyThe Mississippi
ThemesSymbolsMaterial ThingsThe BibleHeaven/Hell
Literary Terms
ThemeMoodParadoxPlotPoint of View
AllusionAnalogySimileMetaphorHyperbole
PersonificationForeshadowingImageryIronySymbolism
SettingRepetitionToneAlliterationOnomatopoeia
AntagonistProtagonist
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