American Renaissance
Across
- 2. comparison; does not use “like” or “as”
- 4. the paragraph of poetry
- 6. repeated consonant sounds, anywhere in the words
- 9. a narrator’s lost love
- 10. _____ Walker
- 12. repeated vowel sounds
- 14. a poem written to remember someone who has passed away
- 15. location of Poe’s death
- 20. second word of the event that doubled our nation’s size
- 21. antagonist of Irving’s short story
- 23. appeals to the reader’s senses
- 26. a transcendental poem about nature and death
- 30. when inanimate things are given human characteristics
Down
- 1. maiden of the usher house
- 3. sub genre
- 5. “A ______ Within a ______”
- 7. ______ romanticism
- 8. something that has meaning in and of itself, but also represents something else
- 11. The Fall of the House of _______
- 13. two lines line paired together that rhyme
- 16. the author/poet’s attitude
- 17. a lengthy Poe poem
- 18. means a “rebirth”; the time period we have studied
- 19. master of the usher house
- 22. extreme exaggeration
- 24. repeating consonant at the beginning of consecutive words
- 25. a repeated phrase
- 27. a reference to someone/something famous, like another piece of literature
- 28. comparison; uses “like” or “as”
- 29. the feeling the reader gets