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Literary Terms 10

A concise, witty statement offering truth or opinion

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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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Believed all forms of being—God, nature, and humanity—are spiritually united through a shared universal soul

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The deliberate and public refusal to obey laws that violate one’s personal principles

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To think and act independently

Transcendentalism Authors 10

• Wrote Walden while spending two years in the woods

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• Father of Transcendentalism

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• Wrote Leaves of Grass, as well as Song of Myself and I Hear America Singing

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• Wrote many of her poems about death and lived as a recluse

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• American poet who wrote “A Psalm of Life” and considered to be part of the Fireside Poets

Sound Devices 10

• The use of words that imitate sounds

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• The repetition of initial sounds

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• Repetition of consonant sounds at the end of accented syllables

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• Repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants

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•when a pair of syllables sound the same within the same line

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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• a figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else

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a figure of speech in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics

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a deliberate exaggeration or overstatement

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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• What is a characteristic of Romantic writing?

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• Who wrote The Minister’s Black Veil?

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• What was a characteristic of Puritan writing?

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• What time period in American history did Arthur Miller write The Crucible?

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• The Onondagas, as well as many other Native Americans, view of nature.