Across
- 4. Good taste in conduct or appearance
- 5. The pattern end rhyme in a poem; aabbaa
- 8. A strong dislike
- 9. A philosophical and literary movement that emphasized living a simple life and celebrating the truth found in nature and in personal emotion and imagination
- 10. A group of lines that form a unit in a poem; usually characterized by a common pattern of meter, rhyme, and number of lines
- 11. Secret or hidden from view
- 12. A feeling of high spirits or lively joy
- 14. One who does not follow generally accepted beliefs, customs, or practices
- 15. Published a volume of antislavery poems
- 16. The belief that national interests should be placed ahead of regional concerns or the interests of other countries
- 17. Led a group practicing transcendentalism; published “Nature”
Down
- 1. Stressed individualism and self-reliance; believed intuition can lead to knowledge; stressed a close relationship to nature
- 2. Changing the country from a largely agrarian economy to an industrial powerhouse
- 3. The idea that it was the destiny of the US to expand to the pacific ocean
- 6. An underlying message that a writer wants the reader to understand
- 7. Emphasized moral themes in work; were viewed as equals of British poets of the day; stressed individualism and an appreciation of nature; committed to social reform
- 10. The placing of the interests of one's own region ahead of the nation as a whole
- 13. To ask urgently or repeatedly; to annoy or trouble