ENG 3 Semester Exam Review

2. Invented the modern detective story (last name).
4. A rhythmic unit containing one stressed and one or two unstressed syllables.
5. Pared down his expenses to 27 cents a week, which he earned by working only six weeks a year (last name).
6. Repetition of regular rhythmic units in a line of poetry.
7. Rather than Financial, Transcendentalists sought this type of well-being.
8. Fireside poet who was a professor at Harvard for 20 years and lost both wives tragically (last name).
11. Native American folktales support and validate social __________.
12. The first Americans to rival the talents of British Poets (2 words).
15. Gothics were the first to truly analyze this (2 words).
20. Transcendentalists believed knowledge could be achieved through this.
21. Descriptive words and phrases a writers uses to re-create a sensory experience.
22. Unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
23. Early Romantics emphasized this over reason.
25. Gothic writers explored the human capacity for this.
26. Unrhymed iambic pentameter (2 words).
28. Indirect comparison between two seemingly unalike things.
29. Repetition of the initial sounds in neighboring words or stressed syllable.
30. Groups of lines in a poem characterized by a repeated pattern.
31. Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
33. Fireside poet who served as editor for The Atlantic Monthly (last name).
34. Feeling or atmosphere conveyed by the writer.

1. A specific Folktale intended to describe how earth, life, and the universe began (2 words).
2. Applying human qualities to something nonhuman.
3. Comparison between two seemingly unalike things using the words “like” or “as”.
4. Transcendentalist who died in a tragic shipwreck within sight of the American coast (last name).
6. Worked on a variety of ships, including a whaling vessel (last name).
9. The Early Romanticism in America was a response to this.
10. Considered the father of transcendentalism (last name).
13. Language that communicates ideas beyond the literal meaning of words (2 words).
14. Gothic writer who, despite his pessimism, found hope in the redeeming power of love (last name).
16. Repetition of words with identical vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds.
17. One line ends without a pause and continues on to the next.
18. The use of words the sound of which suggest their meaning.
19. Early Romantics greatly celebrated this.
24. Romantic poets were generally inspired by __________.
27. Fireside poet who was born a Quaker in a modest household and had little formal education (last name).
31. Fireside poet who saved the USS Constitution from being scrapped with a poem (last name).
32. Similarity of sounds between two words.