week 1

Question 1

fervent, filled with eagerness in pursuit of something #tryhard

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Zealous

Question 2

the highest point, culminating point #peaked

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Zenith

Question 3

to join, link

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Yoke

Question 4

to decrease in size, dwindle #moon

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Wane

Question 5

undisciplined, lewd, lustful -sounds like a food

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Wanton

Question 6

crafty, sly - coyote

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Wily

Question 7

charming, pleasing

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Winsome

Question 8

full of yearning; musingly sad -jeff buckley

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Wistful

Question 9

dry, shrunken, wrinkled

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Wizened

Question 10

not free flowing, syrupy

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Viscous

Question 11

having a caustic quality

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Vitriolic

Question 12

lively, sprightly

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Vivacious

Question 13

the work in which someone is employed, profession

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Vocation

Question 14

loud, boisterous

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Vociferous

Question 15

Writing style of America’s early English-speaking colonists. emphasizes obedience to God and consists mainly of journals, sermons, and poems.

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Puritanism

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a movement that began in Europe in the seventeenth century, which held that we can arrive at truth by using our reason rather than relying on the authority of the past, on the authority of the Church, or an institution.

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Rationalism

Question 17

a style of writing, developed in the nineteenth century, that attempts to depict life accurately without idealizing or romanticizing it.

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Realism

Question 18

literature that emphasizes a specific geographic setting and that reproduces the speech, behavior, and attitudes of the people who live in that region.

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Regionalism

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a revolt against Rationalism that affected literature and the other arts, beginning in the late eighteenth century and remaining strong throughout most of the nineteenth century.

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Romanticism

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movement in art and literature that started in Europe during the 1920s. Wanted to replace conventional realism with the full expression of the unconscious mind, which they considered to be more real than the “real” world of appearances.

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Surrealism

Question 21

a literary movement that originated in late nineteenth century France, in which writers rearranged the world of appearances in order to reveal a more truthful version of reality.

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Symbolism

Question 22

a nineteenth century movement in the Romantic tradition , which held that every individual can reach ultimate truths through spiritual intuition, which transcends reasons and sensory experience.

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Transcendentalism

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a nineteenth-century movement in literature and art which advocated a recording of the artist’s personal impressions of the world, rather than a strict representation of reality.

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Impressionism

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a term for the bold new experimental styles and forms that swept the arts during the first third of the twentieth century.

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Modernism

Question 25

a nineteenth century literary movement that was an extension of realism and that claimed to portray life exactly as it was.

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Naturalism

Question 26

Writing style that stresses simplicity and clarity of expression (but will still utilize allusions and metaphors), and was the main form of the Puritan writers.

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Plain style