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Powerpoint Jeopardy Literary TermsAuthors Sound Devices Figurative Language Devices Connections to past units! 10 20 30 40 50
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Literary Terms 10 A concise, witty statement offering truth or opinion
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Literary Terms 20 a literary and philosophical movement, associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson, asserting the existence of an ideal spiritual reality that transcends the empirical and scientific and is knowable through intuition.
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Literary Terms 30 Believed all forms of being—God, nature, and humanity—are spiritually united through a shared universal soul
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Literary Terms 40 The deliberate and public refusal to obey laws that violate one’s personal principles
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Literary Terms 50 To think and act independently
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Transcendentalism Authors 10 Wrote Walden while spending two years in the woods
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Transcendentalism Authors 20 Father of Transcendentalism
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Transcendentalism Authors 30 Wrote Leaves of Grass, as well as Song of Myself and I Hear America Singing
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Transcendentalism Authors 40 Wrote many of her poems about death and lived as a recluse
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Transcendentalism Authors 50 American poet who wrote “A Psalm of Life” and considered to be part of the Fireside Poets
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Sound Devices 10 The use of words that imitate sounds
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Sound Devices 20 The repetition of initial sounds
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Sound Devices 30 Repetition of consonant sounds at the end of accented syllables
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Sound Devices 40 Repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants
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Sound Devices 50 when a pair of syllables sound the same within the same line
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Figurative Language Terms 10 a figure of speech that makes a direct comparison between two subjects using either like or as
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Figurative Language Terms 20 a figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else
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Figurative Language Terms 30 a figure of speech in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics
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Figurative Language Terms 40 a deliberate exaggeration or overstatement
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Figurative Language Terms 50 a deliberate exaggeration or overstatement Nature screams of its existence, wanting to be noticed, wanting her message to be heard. What is this an example of?
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Connections to the Past 10 What is a characteristic of Romantic writing?
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Connections to the Past 20 Who wrote The Minister’s Black Veil?
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Connections to the Past 30 What was a characteristic of Puritan writing?
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Connections to the Past 40 What time period in American history did Arthur Miller write The Crucible?
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Connections to the Past 50 The Onondagas, as well as many other Native Americans, view of nature.
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