Final Review Flashcards
The belief that intuition, imagination, and emotion provide a clearer route to truth than reason alone.
Romanticism
a intellectual movement of American Romanticism.
Transcendentalism
What was hawthorns primary motive writing fiction?
To tell the truth about society
Where was Hawthorne’s novel set?
Boston Massachusetts 1650
How much the Scarlet letter because classified as a work of literature?
Romance / allegory (using fictional characters to make a true statement about human existence)
How did Hawthorne have ancestral ties to the Salem witch trials?
A relative was a judge in the trials in 1692
What do the characters actions and fate imply in Hawthorne’s writings?
These are his ethical lessons
What is the prison for represent?
The severity in Puritan law
What does the Forest represent?
A wild, unhabited place where passion can flourish
A conscience statement of a principal, formulation of a truth, Instructive saying
Aphorism
Compares two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as
Simile
To represent, indicate, or typify before hand, a look into the future
Foreshadowing
Repetition of unusually initial consonant sounds into or more neighboring words or syllables
Alliteration
The repeating a word
Repetition
A word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in a place of another to suggest a likeliness or analogy between them (not literally) does not use like or as
Metaphor
