| A | B |
|---|
| Oversoul | the higher force (eg. God) exists in everyone and above everyone to connect everyone |
| Self-Reliance | A person's inner nature knows what is best |
| Civil Disobedience | Breaking a rule or law because it is unjust and accepting the punishment for it |
| Man-Learning | Applying knowledge for life- |
| Mere-Learning | rote memorization that is quickly forgotten |
| Walden Pond | Where Thoreau spent two years |
| July 4th | The day Thoreau went to the pond |
| The teacher and thinker | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| The student and doer | Henry David Thoreau |
| Talking to an inanimate object- as in addressing the "The Rhodora" | Apostrophe |
| A short, trite statement about life | Aphorism |
| Why Thoreau went to the woods | To suck the marrow out of life |
| Castles in the Air | A metaphor for dreams, goals |
| A story used to illustrate a point | Anecdote |
| A story about a bug in a table | Thoreau's anecdote |
| Refusing to pay a poll tax | Why Thoreau spent a night in jail |
| Ghandi, King, Parks | Famous civil disobedience demonstraters |
| The Scarlet Letter | Nathanial Hawthorne |
| Moby Dick | Herman Melville |
| Anti-transcendentalists don't believe in this | innate goodness |
