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American Literature
Crystal Cathedral High School Sophomores (Semester 1; Mr. Smith)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Inductive Reasoning | To come to a logical conclusion based upon the observation of facts. |
| Personification | Attributing human qualities to non-human creatures or objects. |
| Exploration Narrative | Personal narratives of an explorer that attempt to capture on paper, for the government officials in the explorer’s country, an eyewitness account of what the explorer observes. |
| Slave Narrative | The autobiographical account used to document the life Experiences of a slave. Uniquely American, such writings were used by Abolitionists to make the horrors of slavery “real.” |
| First Person Point of View | The storyteller in the action and, therefore, limited in what she/he can know. |
| Journal | A day-by-day account of the events that occur within one’s life, described from a personal point of view. |
| Narrative Account | The author’s own record of what she/he witnessed while being there. |
| Utopia | An imaginary island described in a book of the same name written by Sir Thomas Moore in 1516. Utopian is described as having a perfect political and social system. |
| Sermon | A spiritually-related speech given to an audience from a pulpit in a house of worship. |
| Epistle | Personal letters that tend to be spontaneous, conversational, and intended only for the eyes of the reader(s) to whom they are addressed. |
| Transcendentalism | Literary movement that taught intuition & individual conscience transcend experience-better guides to truth then the senses. Transcendentalists respected the individual spirit & nature teaching that divinity was everywhere & in everything. |
| Point Of View | The author’s observational stance from which he tells his story. |
| Third Person Point Of View | The storyteller is not involved in the action and, therefore, can demonstrate levels of omniscience. |
| "City On The Hill" | Puritan Philosophy that the city was a Christian model to the world. |
| Puritan Work Ethic | Show love for God through physical work and He will reward you physically. |
| Symbol | A thing that represents or stands for something else, esp. a material object representing something abstract. |
| Puritan Hypocrisy | The difference between what they believed and how they lived. |
| Theme | The subject or topic on which a person speaks, writes, or thinks; a literary piece’s insight into life. |
| Conformity | Compliance with standards, rules, or laws. |
| "The Owl's Nest" | Where Nathaniel Hawthorn wrote stories. |
| Couplet | A two-line stanza in a poem. |
| Moral Virtues | Ben Franklin. |
| Social Contract | Social agreement between 2 parties |
| "Unity Of Effect" | A literary environment where every element adds to the overall effect of the experience. |
| Diction | The words that an author chooses to utilize. |
| Philosophy Toward Government | Writings that attempt to create a view of idealized government rule. |
| Quatrain | A four-line stanza in a poem. |
| Setting | The time & place of the action of literary work. Setting may serve any of a number of functions. It may provide a background for action, be a crucial element in the plot or central conflict, also may create a certain emotional atmosphere or mood. |
| The Scarlett Letter "A" | Stood for "Adultery"; red color represented sin. |
| Dimmesdale's Crime | Living a lie. |
| Abolitionists | A person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution, esp. capital punishment or (formerly) slavery. |
| Meter | The systematic arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables within a piece of poetry. |
| Limited Point Of View | The author presents the story while relating the inner thoughts and feelings of a character. |
| Omniscient Point Of View | The author presents the story without relating the inner thoughts and feelings of a character. |
| Chillingworth's Crime | Toying with Dimmesdales emotions and mind; deceiving |
| Character Sketch | A literary technique whereby the reader “draws” a verbal picture of a character by identifying personal traits evidenced within the literature. |
| "The Fireside Poets" | Bryant, Whittier, Holmes, Lowell |
| Mood | The atmosphere, or feeling, created in the reader by a literary work or passage. Elements that can influence the mood of a work include its setting, tone, and events that are described. |
| Cinquain | A five-line stanza in a poem. |
| Parable | A simple, usually brief story that teaches a moral lesson. Unlike a fable, the parable usually features human characters. |
| Genre | A division, or type, of literature. Literature is commonly divided into three major genres: poetry, prose, and drama. These are further subdivided into specific genres. |
| Style | An author’s personal approach to sharing information. |
| Gothic | The use of primitive, medieval, wild, or mysterious elements in literature. Gothic novels, short stories, plays, and poems feature places like mysterious and gloomy castle where horrifying supernatural events take place. |
| Boston's Scaffold | A place where Hester Prynne and Reverend Dimmesdale gained their punishment, ridicule and humiliation. |
| Native America Legends | A type of oral story in which the Native Americans would explain the world around them. |
| Iambic Pentameter | Poetry of five sets of stressed and unstressed syllables. |
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