Unit 5: American Literary Periods Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. How many literary periods are we studying?
  2. 4. Documenting births, deaths, marriages, numbers of immigrants, etc.
  3. 5. A small settlement of people from a distant country. It is also the name of our school.
  4. 8. Idealizing or glorifying something.
  5. 10. The state of being free.
  6. 11. A rapid and drastic change, typically within a government.
  7. 13. To create the best most ideal situation using your imagination.
  8. 15. Rejection of old ways. Freestyle writing.
  9. 18. Another word for a time frame or an era.
  10. 20. Transcendentalists believed they could reach divinity or access God through glorifying this.
  11. 21. The Contemporary Era is more focused on this.
Down
  1. 1. Stating things in a matter-of-fact way.
  2. 3. Explorers and fierce Pioneers like Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, and Hugh Glass that were romanticized in literature.
  3. 6. What unit number are we learning about?
  4. 7. The study of nature.
  5. 9. Happening right now.
  6. 12. What kind of literature are we studying in this class?
  7. 14. Written communications sent by mail.
  8. 16. The belief that it was America's destiny to expand West.
  9. 17. Similar to a diary.
  10. 19. The country most colonists came from.