American Lit Semester 1 Review

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Across
  1. 4. Woman executed for her moral goodness and refusal to lie
  2. 5. Reclusive, hypersensitive aristocrat whose physical and mental deterioration mirrors the decay of his
  3. 7. Believes the court is always right and refuses to show mercy
  4. 14. Emerson Philosopher who emphasized intuition, self-reliance, and nonconformit
  5. 15. home
  6. 18. Devil figure who tempts humans with wealth and power
  7. 20. and expansive imagery, often presenting the self as a representation of all people.
  8. 21. American poet who celebrated democracy, individuality, and shared human experience through free
  9. 22. Minister who struggles with guilt after hiding his si
  10. 24. A poet who often reflected on time, loss, memory, and the cycles of life to explore how nature and
  11. 25. punctuation, slant rhyme, and concise language
  12. 26. A government document establishing the foundation for democratic principles and social contracts in
  13. 28. Young woman whose false accusations fuel hysteria in Salem
  14. 29. Thoreau Transcendentalist who lived deliberately in nature at Walden Pond
Down
  1. 1. Allegorical figure who conducts an experiment revealing human nature
  2. 2. U.S. Senator whose anti-Communist investigations inspired The Crucible
  3. 3. Author who explored guilt, original sin, and moral complexity
  4. 6. Vengeful figure who psychologically tortures another character because of a hidden sin
  5. 8. Hale Minister who begins as a firm believer in the trials but later questions the
  6. 9. Playwright who wrote The Crucible as an allegory for the Red Scare
  7. 10. Poe Author known for gothic tone, symbolism, and psychological horror
  8. 11. Character who refuses to confess and is executed for maintaining integrity
  9. 12. Symbolic figure representing grief, death, and the narrator’s descent into madness
  10. 13. Man pressed to death for refusing to enter a plea
  11. 16. Woman punished for adultery who transforms shame into strength
  12. 17. shapes human experience
  13. 19. A poet known for her introspective exploration of death, love, time, and immortality, using
  14. 21. Aging woman who symbolizes vanity and lost youth
  15. 23. Greedy man who makes a bargain and is ultimately destroyed by it
  16. 27. America