Across
- 1. Short accounts of personal incidents
- 4. Makes abstract ideas more appealing and easier for the reader to grasp
- 5. The underlying message or central idea of a work
- 9. In an unhurried and thoughtful manner
- 10. Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; live life to the fullest
- 13. Was a fireside poet who wrote Thanatopsis
- 17. Ralph Waldo Emerson; god, nature, and humankind are all interconnected
- 20. Disturbance of the emotions; agitation, uneasiness
- 22. To spread through every part of
- 25. Ralph Waldo Emerson; against consistency, “To be great is to be misunderstood”
- 26. Examine a writer's ideas carefully and then make judgments about their value
- 27. Was about death, wrote by William Cullen Bryant
- 28. One who does not follow generally accepted beliefs, customs, or practices
- 29. The writer's attitude towards their subject
- 30. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; event after death, time moves on
Down
- 2. Believed that intuition can lead to knowledge, encouraged spiritual well-being over financial well-being
- 3. Emphasized moral themes in work; stressed individualism and an appreciation of nature; committed to social reform
- 6. Led a group practicing transcendentalism; published “Nature”; poet, essayest
- 7. Henry David Thoreau; an individual's conscience is the most important; soldiers serve with their bodies, politicians with their minds, and heroes with their conscience
- 8. Creates a vivid impression (or picture) for the reader
- 11. To violate a command or law
- 12. Wrote “Walden”; attended Harvard
- 14. Suited to one's needs or nature; agreeable
- 15. Low; contemptible; wretched
- 16. Published a volume of antislavery poems; stressed individualism and appreciation of nature in his work
- 18. Briefly restate the author's main idea
- 19. An intellectual movement that emphasized the dignity of the individual and advocated a simple, mindful life
- 21. Acting with sudden or rash energy; hasty
- 23. Henry David Thoreau; living in the woods; finding truth in nature
- 24. A feeling of doubt, mistrust, or uncertainty