English III AP/DC Quiz #1

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Across
  1. 2. A literary time period dominated by sermons, diaries, and histories, which expressed the connections between God and their everyday lives.
  2. 4. Logical; motivated by reason rather than feeling.
  3. 6. Literary time period in which authors sense that little is unique; culture endlessly duplicates and copies itself.
  4. 9. Practical.
  5. 10. Something out of place in time or sequence.
  6. 11. An apparent contradiction of terms.
  7. 12. Literary time period in which human beings can arrive at truth by using deductive reasoning, rather than relying on the authority of the past, on religious faith, or intuition.
  8. 13. Black cultural movement in Harlem, New York. Writers include Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston.
  9. 16. Represented the manner and environment of everyday life and ordinary people as realistically as possible.
  10. 17. An example or model.
Down
  1. 1. A grammar construction in which a noun (or noun phrase) is placed with another as an explanation.
  2. 3. Not applied to actual objects.
  3. 5. The opposite of passive voice; essentially any sentence with an active verb.
  4. 7. Literary time period characterized by self-reliance and individualism must outweigh external authority and blind conformity to tradition.
  5. 8. Literary time period in which authors express a sense of disillusionment and loss of faith in the “American Dream”: the independence, self-reliant, individual will triumph.
  6. 13. Existing only as an assumption or speculation.
  7. 14. Valued feeling, intuition, idealism, and inductive reasoning. Writers include Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman.
  8. 15. Defense of an idea.