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31 Cards in this Set
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Who were the Puritans?
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The Puritans were writers in the colonies whos writing reflects a world view shaped by puritanism.
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Who were the transcendentalists?
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The transcendentalists were indepent thinkers, that avoided mainstream.
*The belief that individuals can transcend the limitations imposed upon them by society if they rely on the self for truth. |
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What were the slave narratives?
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The slave narratives were stories of slave life told by former or escaped slaves and used to further abolutionism.
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what did realists write?
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The depiction of subjects as they appear in everyday life without embellishment or interpretation.
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What is American Naturalism?
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The effort to illustrate threw literature how scientific principles, especially Darwinism shape human behavior.
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What is Modernism?
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Modernism is the theme of disillusionment and the tendency to reject tradition in both form and message.
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Rhetoric
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The art of Persuasion.
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ethos
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respect
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logos
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good reason
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pathos
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appeal to emotion
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exigence
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what motivated them to write
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audience
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who they're writing to
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purpose
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what the writer wants the audience to do in response
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syllogism
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when you draw a conclusion from 2 premises.
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jeremiad
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Scold or rebuke to inspire better behavior
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debunking assumptions
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take a generally held belief, talk about why it is wrong.
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explication/ application
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Explain text, then describe how it applies
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allusion
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A reference to another text
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apostrophe
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? "Oh god"..."oh shakespeare if you could see this!"
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identification
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an author establishes a sense of values, and interests with the readers.
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anaphora
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repitition of words at the beginning of a paragraph or within the paragraph.
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amplification
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arranging words...make some point, increasingly strong language/ force.
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invective
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a discourse that casts blame
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paradox
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a seeming contradition
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dialect
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an effort to resolve disagreement through rational discussion showing given hypothesis leads to contradiction.
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What did John winthrop write?
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who wrote
"A model of Christian Charity" |
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what did Ann Bradstreet write?
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who wrote
"Here follow some verses upon the burning of our house", "The Vanity of all Worldly things", and "A letter to Her Husband, Absent Among Public Employment" |
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what did Johnathon Edwards write?
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who wrote
"Sinners in the Hands of an angry God" |
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what did Phillis Wheatley write?
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who wrote
"To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth", and "On being brought from Africa to America" |
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what did F. Scott Fitzgerald write?
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who wrote
"The Great Gatsby", and "Bernice bobs her hair" |
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What did J.D. Salinger write?
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who wrote
"A fine day for Bannafish" and "Catcher in the Rye" |
