Unit 2: Where do people look for truth? NOT About Love Philosophically Speaking The Highest Work of Imagination The Glass is Half Full Darkness Prevails Literary Genius Final Jeopardy

Not About Love —100 American Romanticism is associated with all of the following except: a.Distrust of civilization b.Freedom of the individual c.Belief in the superiority of rationalism d.Love of the natural world Answer

Not About Love—100 Answer C. Belief in the superiority of Rationalism Game Board

Not About Love—200 The intellectual movement known as transcendentalism emphasized the idea that true reality is A.Physical B. Spiritual C. Emotional D. Political Answer

Not About Love—200 Answer B. Spiritual Game Board

Not About Love—300 According to Romantic Writers, eternal truths can best be found in what? Answer

Not About Love—300 Answer The Natural World/ The American Wilderness Game Board

Not About Love—400 What new American development/movement caused a “distrust of civilization?” Answer

Not About Love—400 Answer The Industrial Revolution Game Board

Not About Love—500 In what region of the United States was intellectual and social growth most prominent during the 19 th century? Answer

Not About Love—500 Answer New England Game Board

Philosophically Speaking —100 Anti-Transcendentalists focused on which side of human nature? Answer

Philosophically Speaking—100 Answer The Dark Side Game Board

Philosophically Speaking—200 Answer Which of the nine Romantic Philosophies is demonstrated in the following line: “Threading its way out from among his gray hairs, and continuing right down one side of his tawny, scorched face, you saw a slender, rod-like mark, lividly whitish.

Philosophically Speaking—200 Use of the 5 Senses Game Board

Philosophically Speaking—300 Name Three of the Nine Romantic Philosophies. Answer

Philosophically Speaking —300 Answer Game Board Use of the imagination, profound love for nature, cycle of nature, moral and spiritual lessons can be learned from nature, interest in the supernatural, individual freedom, use of the 5 senses, nostalgia for the past.

Philosophically Speaking—400 Name the transcendentalist philosophy that says nature, God, and humanity are connected as one universal being. Answer

Philosophically Speaking—400 Answer The Over Soul Game Board

Philosophically Speaking—500 What is meant by the following line from Walden: “Only that day dawns to which we are awake.” Answer

Philosophically Speaking—500 Answer We need to truly be “aware” and living in order to enjoy and live life. Game Board

The Highest Work of Imagination —100 On what event is “The Cross of Snow” based? Answer

The Highest Work of Imagination — 100 Answer The death of Longfellow’s second wife to fire. Game Board

The Highest Work of Imagination—200 In “Thanatopsis”, what decorates the tomb of man? Answer

The Highest Work of Imagination— 200 Answer All things in nature Game Board

The Highest Work of Imagination—300 What two items are being compared at the end of “The Cross of Snow?” Answer

The Highest Work of Imagination— 300 Answer The cross he wears to the cross of snow on the mountain. Game Board

The Highest Work of Imagination—400 What does “Thanatopsis” mean in Greek? Answer

The Highest Work of Imagination— 400 Answer Seeing Death Game Board

The Highest Work of Imagination—500 What advice is being given to the reader in the last stanza of “Thanatopsis”? Answer

The Highest Work of Imagination— 500 Answer Live your life, so that when death comes for you, you do not go “like the quarry slave” but like one prepared to “lie down to pleasant dreams.” Game Board

The Glass is Half Full —100 What is the main message being given in Self Reliance? Answer

The Glass is Half Full—100 Answer Be yourself and do not conform! Game Board

The Glass is Half Full—200 How long did Thoreau live at Walden Pond? Answer

The Glass is Half Full—200 Answer 2 years and 2 months and 2 days. Game Board

The Glass is Half Full—300 In Walden, Thoreau leaves the pond for what reason? Answer

The Glass is Half Full—300 Answer He wished to move on to other experiences Game Board

The Glass is Half Full—400 In “Nature”, Emerson claims, “I am nothing, I see all.” At this moment has become the _________ _______. Answer

The Glass is Half Full—400 Answer transparent eyeball. Game Board

The Glass is Half Full—500 Thoreau compares the life in us to what tangible item in nature? Answer

The Glass is Half Full—500 Answer The water in the river. Game Board

Darkness Prevails —100 Poe’s “Annabel Lee” discusses which aspect of his life? Answer

Darkness Prevails—100 Answer The death of his wife/cousin, Virginia Game Board

Darkness Prevails—200 What was Ahab’s leg made of? Answer

Darkness Prevails—200 Answer A whale’s jawbone (Moby Dick’s) Game Board

Darkness Prevails—300 Name the narrator of Moby Dick, and two reasons he goes on a ship as a sailor. Answer

Darkness Prevails—300 Answer Ishmael Passengers spend money instead of making it Passenger fight/grow seasick He does not want the responsibilities of a prestigious position He gets to breathe the sea air first hand Game Board

Darkness Prevails—400 Hawthorne believes that “earthly pomp” “and all the sons of glory soon/Will rest beneath the…” what? Answer

Darkness Prevails—400 Answer “the mould’ring stone.” Game Board

Darkness Prevails—500 Name two of the nature reference’s made in Poe’s “Alone.” Answer

Darkness Prevails—500 Answer From the torrent, or the fountain From the red cliff of the mountain From the sun that round me rolled In its autumn tint of gold From the lightning in the sky As it passed me flying by From the thunder and the storm And the cloud that took the form Game Board

Literary Genius —100 Define tone. Answer

Literary Genius—100 Answer The author’s attitude towards the subject or audience of a piece of literature. Game Board

Literary Genius—200 Define Diction. Answer

Literary Genius—200 Answer Choice of Words Game Board

Literary Genius—300 What is a slough? Answer

Literary Genius—300 Answer The outer layer of the skin of a snake, which is cast off periodically. Game Board

Literary Genius—400 What is the beast that is lion, goat, and serpent and represents Gothic writing? Answer

Literary Genius—400 Answer Chimera Game Board

Literary Genius—500 Who wrote “Thanatopsis?” Answer

Literary Genius—500 Answer William Cullen Bryant Game Board

DAILY Double Question

Final Jeopardy On what island was Melville captured by Cannibals? Answer

Final Jeopardy—Answer Typee