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What is the device that uses descriptive words and phrases to recreate sensory experiences?

What is the literary device that occurs when

readers know more about the situation or a

character in a story that the characters do?

The materials written or created by people who were present at events

are called….?

What is a short simple story that is handed

down usually by word of mouth, from generation to generation; includes

legends, fairy tales, myths, and fables?

What was the movement in the arts that flourished

in Europe and America throughout much of the

19th century; these writers glorified nature

and celebrated individuality?

Who was the character in Native American myth who tricks Buffalo Bull into sparing his life by making Buffalo Bull a

“pair of fine heavy horns with sharp points”?

Who is the character in a Gothic tale who does not want to drink the water

from the Fountain of Youth because “having

had much trouble in growing old, [he was] in no hurry to grow young

again”?

Who was the character who is put through a test of moral character when he must choose between

falsely confessing and saving his life or standing by the truth and saving

his soul?

Who was kidnapped by slave traders in Africa and boarded a ship to

Barbados and later to the Virginia Colony?

Who was the character who was known for her great charitable work throughout the many

towns surrounding Salem village?

Who wrote The Crucible as a reaction to the hearings held by the House Un-American

Activities Committee who were investigating

Communists?

Who was the pastor who wrote the sermon,

“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”?

Who is known for his experiment in “simple

living” and lived in Walden Pond for two

years in a small cabin?

Who was the Fireside poet who wrote the

much-parodied, “Psalm of Life”?

Who was the first notable American poet whose poetry focused on the

personal aspects of life---her family and Puritan

tradition?

Which twin in the Iroquois myth of creation

“lives in the world below…He hears the

sounds of warfare and torture, and he finds

them good”?

Who is the character who “brings the other girls

into the court, and where she walks the crowd will

part like the sea for Israel”?

Who is the character who is pressed to death for refusing to cooperate

with the court of Salem?

Who becomes a money lender and becomes rich, but “Having secured the good things of this world, …began to feel anxious

about those of the next”?

Who decides to set out on a project to bring

himself closer to moral perfection by focusing on

13 virtues?

• The clock that stands for time

• the rooms that stand for the deadly sins

• the abbey that represents false security

An example of this is when those who are

innocent are convicted of witchcraft, yet those who

are guilty of false accusations are seen as

saints.

An example of this type of figurative language is:

“damnation does not slumber.”

An example of this is the description of heaven as “an house on high erect,/ Framed by that mighty Architect,/ With glory

richly furnished, / Stands permanent though this

be fled.”

Examples of this are:•“A penny saved is a penny earned.”•“Honesty is the best policy.”•“It is life near the bone where it is sweetest.”