Mickle's English 11 Semester 1 Final Exam Stuff

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Across
  1. 3. a transcendental writer who believed that the best government governed the least
  2. 5. a romantic ____ is usually a social outcast who himself rejects society
  3. 10. the name of the black cat in Poe's tale
  4. 11. a movement in literature, art, and music that highlighted extreme emotions, the imagination, inspiration, and intuition
  5. 13. the female poet who only wore white in her later years, a recluse who wrote about death, love, and loss.
  6. 14. the transcendentalists believed this was a source of healing and perpetual youth
  7. 16. Dickinson and Poe were both fascinated and haunted by themes of _____
  8. 17. Dickinson often used this literary strategy to describe her themes of death and hope, love and loss
Down
  1. 1. the metaphor used to describe the government
  2. 2. the name of the poet's lost love in The Raven
  3. 4. this type of disobedience meant peaceful protest and standing up against an oppressive government
  4. 6. an offshoot of romanticism that focused on nature, self-reliance, and civil disobedience
  5. 7. a transcendental writer who became a transparent eyeball when in nature
  6. 8. the "Leatherstocking" character in The Last of the Mohicans
  7. 9. an offshoot of romanticism that focused on the grotesque, dark and eerie environments, and demented narrators
  8. 12. famous for creating the detective story and writing tales of revenge and horror
  9. 15. this is the century that produced romanticism, transcendentalism, and American gothic
  10. 18. this type of gothic writing was inspired by the Civil War, so tales were more about bad people and not so gory