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32 Cards in this Set
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Purpose: Puritan/Colonial Literature
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to inspire and instruct
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Subjects: Puritan/Colonial Literature
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the meaning of america and SELF TRANSFORMATION
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Types: Puritan/Colonial Literature
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sermons, religious poetry, diaries, histories
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Tone: Puritan/Colonial Literature
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religious, serious
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Characteristics: Puritan/Colonial Literature
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Manifest Denstiny, grace, religious
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Authors: Puritan/Colonial Literature
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John Smith, Jonathon Edwards
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Purpose: Revolutionary Literature
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to incite and inform
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Subjects: Revolutionary Literature
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science, ethics, government
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Types: Revolutionary Literature
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pamphlets, speeches, letters
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Tone: Revolutionary Literature
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patriotic
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Characteristics: Revolutionary Literature
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age of reason, decline of puritanism, new rationalism
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Authors: Revolutionary Literature
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Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry
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Purpose: Romanticism
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to entertain
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Subjects: Romanticism
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nature, the past, inner man
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Types: Romanticism
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novels, short stories, poems
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Tone: Romanticism
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Nationalistic
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Characteristics: Romanticism
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man's potential for goodness, individual, equality, intuition, superstition, American landscape
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Authors: Romanticism
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Irving, Cooper, Bryant, Poe
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Purpose: Transcendentalism
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to inspire and inform
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Subjects: Transcendentalism
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God, humanity, nature
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Characteristics: Transcendentalism
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man's innate goodness
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Authors: Transcendentalism
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Thoreau, Emerson
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Subjects: Anti-Transcendentalism
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man's evil, dark nature
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Authors: Anti-Transcendentalism
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Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Subjects: Realism
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actualities of existance
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Types: Realism
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Regionalism, Naturalism
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Characteristics: Realism
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vernacular, social criticism, sentimental
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Authors: Realism
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Mark Twain
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Purpose: Modern Literature
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to emphasize mood and character
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Authors: Modern Literature
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Characteristics: Classicism
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upheld tradition, reason, social, common
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Characteristics: Naturalism
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life and characters limited by environment or heredity
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