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115 Cards in this Set
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Huswifery means
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house keeping
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what objects and activities are being compared in the poem, Huswifery
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everday activities in the house
making cloths |
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explain: I am clothed in holy robes of glory
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he is prepared for God, how holy he wants to be
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what images contradict the usual puritan attire
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all pinked with varnished flowers of paradise
the dye the same in heavenly colors choice |
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what is the overall purpose of the poem huswifery
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worship God
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what is apostrophe
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figure of speech in which the author directly adresses an absent person or personified object
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conciet
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extended metaphor
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recompense
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to pay for
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manifold
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diverse, variety
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to persist
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persevere
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Sinniers in the Hands of GOd
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Jonathan Edwards
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Edwards audience and occasion
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congegation
great awakening |
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edwards emotional persuation
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nature, vivid imagery, fear through wrath of God
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edwards logical persuasion
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you are a sinner
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what was edwards selling
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God was all powerful but anyone could be reborn
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what are two images of natural destruction that edwards uses to show God's wrath
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great water, flood and storm, thunder lightening, clouds
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why would images of the power of nature be appropriate to his message
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could relate
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______ is the only thing that keeps you from Hell
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air
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age of Romanticism
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an artistic movement that stressed imagination and intuition
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first american to be read widely oversesas
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irving
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irving wrote
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rip van winkle
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first american novelist, wrote leather stocking tales
the last of the mohicans |
james fenimoore cooper
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first poet about nature
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william cullen bryant
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wrote of the supernatural, defined short story
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edgar allen poe
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characteristics of romanticist lit
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1.love of nature 2. emotion and intuition 3. individuality
4. fascination with the past 5. supernatural |
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a German tale of Faust is the basis for the tale ____________
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the Devil and Tom Walker
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16th century scholar, sould sould to the devil for knowledge
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faust
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what type of stanza is used in the poem the tide rises and the tide falls
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cinquain
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A pslam of life by
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Longfellow
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Pslam poem is ____ outlook
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positive
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the devil offers Tom Walker ____. why did he not take it
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kidd the pirates treasure
did not want to please wife |
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Longfellow's work was translated into _____languages and read by ____
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2 dozen langs
millions |
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one of his classmates at Bowdoin college was ________
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nathaniel Hawthorne
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Longfellow spent time in Europe before he accepted a position at ____ where he taught for 18 years
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Harvard
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death of two wifes.
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1st infection following miscarage
2nd fatal burns |
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by writting poetry that soothed and encouraged readers, Longfellow became the first American poet to reach a wide audiencce and cerat a a_______
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national intrest in poetry
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longfellows goal was to
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cring non-english poetry to the ordinary American reader
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lonfellows poems include
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evangeline, song of Hiawatha, courrshipf of miles standish and paul revere's ride
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_____ and ______ made Longfellow the most popular poet of his time
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optimism and sentimism
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"firseside Poet because
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families read longfellows powems around fireplace
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his 75the birtday was celebrated as if it was ____
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a national holiday
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regualar pattern of ryhming words in a poem at end
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rhyme scheme
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internal rhyme
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middle and end word rhyms
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rythmical pattern , determined by number
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mter
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iamb
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a foot with unstress syllable followed by one stgressed syllable
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poetry written in unryhmed iambic pentameter
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blank verse
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poetry that does not have a regualr meter
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free verse
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berse written in five foot lines
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iambic pentameter
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divide week and stgrong stresses
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foot
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group of lines in a poem that are considered to be a unit
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stanza
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alliteration
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repetition of consanent sound at the beginning of words or accented syllables
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assonance
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repitition of vowel sounds in conjunction with dissimilar consanant soulds
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consonance
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repettion of similar final consanant sould at the end of word or accented syllables
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onomatopoeia
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use of words that imitate sounds
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what was Franklin's bold and arduous project
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he wanted to be morally perfect
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what was his plan for achieving perfection
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use more names with fuew ideas
under 13 virtues, do and use only necessities |
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which virtue gave him the most trouble
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order
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what was his plan to improve that virtue
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a journal of his accomplishments and faults, not conquer all at one time rather take each virtue individually
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how many virtues did he list
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13
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what did frank discover about himself after following his plan
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realized had more faults
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frank's final evaluation
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did not achieve total perfection , but he became happier man
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who was henry's audience? purpose?
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american people/kingof England
he wantged to puruade to have patriotism |
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what was his main idea? support it?
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persuade tories to support revolution
references to God and attemps at peace |
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henry's rhetorical questions and why
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questioned the strengh of the country and its people an dthe question of freedom
get ppl thinking |
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the 18th century is often called the _____
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age of reason
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the writers and thinkers valued ____ over _____
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reason over faith
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unlike -----, they had little interest in after life
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puritans
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the velieved in the poer of ___ and _____
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reason and science
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the also believed that ppl are by nature ___ not evil
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good
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Age of reason quys
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Frank, jefferson, Paine
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3 brit acts angered the colonist
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stamp act
townshend acts bosto massacre |
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where did the first battles of the American revo take place
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Lexington
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women help during war
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worked, fed, cloth and nursed soldiers
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much of writing in this perios was _ _
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public writting
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ther were almost 30 newspapers 40 mags and ____ but most important writing was ____ writing
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almanacs
political |
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three poets of the age of reason
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Freneay
barlow wheatly |
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4 famous painters
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singleton copleystuart
trumbull peale |
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types of lit not written in Age of reason
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no american novels, plays, short stories
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how many years did Webster work on his dictionary
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30
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why did he want to write a dictionary
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america should have its own version of english
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aphorism
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brief statement that is clevery, wise about life
ex: what we obtain to cheap, we esteem too lightly |
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what kind of writing did Dale do
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report ot king of colonist's determination
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brand name for an appliance which is a large part of the world Laura lives in
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victrola
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amanda is the character who displays the most
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vivacity
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emissary
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agent
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chewing process
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mastication
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boy friends
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beaux
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enrolling
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matriculating
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aesthetic departure for stric facts
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poetic license
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the unicorn
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different like Laura
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the fire escape
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entrance into illusionary world
tom's way out, laura's way in |
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father's photo
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past can't move on from
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typewriter chart
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reality Laura hides from
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movies
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tom's adventure
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amanda's girlish frock
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resembles her past and imagination
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the glass menagerie
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laura, fragile, transparent, rainbow light
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blue rises
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laura's uniqueness
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jim o'conner
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what Laura fear reality
memories of amand's past the life she hopes for |
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narrator of scarlett letter
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omnipitent, can tell all points
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effects of hester's personality
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chils = evil
dimm=weak pearl=ok after confessoin |
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mood of scarlett letter
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somberness and foreboding
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subordinating conjunctions
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time, cause and effect, oposition condition
after, since though unless |
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coordinating conjunction
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for and nor but or yet so
FANBOYS connects two things, nouns, sent. ect. |
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correlative conjunction
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either or
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relative pronounds
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who whomn whose which that
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adjective claused
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adds info about a noun or pronoun
intro by who, whom, whose , which |
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adverb clause
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acts like an adverb, when the bell rings we will eat
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noun clause
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acts like a noun
I hop ethat you understand the examples |
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poe's mother's career
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actress
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poe mother died of ----- when he was ---- years old
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disease, tb
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who raised poe
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allen's
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how idd poe's foster mother die
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tb
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where did foster father send poe ot school
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univerisity of VA
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who took poe in next
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aunt maria clem
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poe called ____ a plagiarist
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longfellwo
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