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WorksheetsTranscendentalism Unit Exam Review
Total questions: 26
Worksheet time: 13mins
This person only wore white and lived in isolation
Walt Whitman
Emily Dickinson
Henry David Thoreau
Ol' Ralph
This person wrote in free verse
Henry
Emily Dickinson
MLK Jr
Walt Whitman
Father of Transcendentalism
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walt Whitman
Henry David Thoreau
Walden
What decade(s) did the transcendentalism movement occur?
1650-1690
1960-1980
Too long ago to count
1830-1850
What was the name of the transcendental commune that is in New England in the 1800's?
Happy Land
Candy Land
Woodstock
Brook Farm
What is a slant rhyme?
When two words have the same ending sound
When two words have the same beginning sound
When two words have a similar ending sound, but not the exact same
When a story has a deeper meaning
What is free verse?
When a story has a deeper meaning
When a poem is written without restrictions
When a poem is written using deep emotion
When two words have the same beginning sound
Which of the following is an example of alliteration?
"It does not keep the country free. It does not settle the West. It does not educate."
"I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear..."
"Fame is a fickle food"
"The life in us is like the water in the river."
a figure of speech that references another work, well-known person, or famous event
Rhetorical device
Personification
Allusion
Anaphora
Anything used to persuade is called a...
Metaphor
Allusion
Literary device
Rhetorical device
A comparison between two unalike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem
Oxymoron
Assonance
Extended metaphor
Simile
"It is a deliverance which does not deliver" is a use of which rhetorical device?
Metephor
Oxymoron
Simile
Consonance
Which of the following is NOT a transcendental belief
Non-conformity
Power the individual
Power of nature
Attached to material wealth
Who lived in the woods for two years and wrote Walden?
Henry David Thoreau
Emily Dickinson
George Clooney
Arthur Miller
Which is an example of Civil Disobedience?
Writing letters to congress expressing your anger
Spray painting stop signs
Running from the cops
Not paying taxes because you don't agree with where the money is going
Who was the author of "Pilgrimage to Nonviolence?"
Gandhi
Martin Luther King Jr.
Thoreau
Emerson
Who was fired from their job as a journalist due to their opposition of slavery?
Walt Whitman
Emily Dickinson
Gandhi
Waldo
What is a utopia?
The idea of a perfect place
A place in nature where one can be happy
A busy city
A form of government
How did Dickinson's family go against her wishes after the died?
They stopped giving candy to the children
They published her poems that she wanted destroyed
They threw away her white dress
They edited her poetry
Which poet purposefully used grammatical errors and irregular capitalization in their poetry?
Walt Whitman
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sylvia Plath
Emily Dickinson
What did Thoreau do to rebel against the strict rules at Harvard?
Build a cabin in the woods on campus
Wore a different color coat than what was required
Wrote about free individuality
Didn't go to class
What do transcendentalists believe that humans are most connected to?
Nature
Animals
Machines
Literature
(Fill in the blank) A rhetorical device is _________ used to persuade.
punctuation
Capitalization
ANYTHING
Literary device
Personification...
is the deliberate repetition of the first part of a sentence to achieve an effect
is the art of persuasion
gives non-living objects human traits
is a figure of speech that references another work
What rhetorical device is being used in the following quote? "Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood?"
Anaphora
Allusion
Rhetorical Question
Metaphor
Which of the following stylistic elements appears in all of Emily Dickinson's poems?
The lack of title
The use of dashes
The use of eccentric capitalization
All of the above
