English III AP/DC Quiz #1

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