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Disclosed |
Showed;revealed |
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Precaution |
Care taken in advance |
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Steadfastly |
With firmness ; without changing |
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Uppermost |
Highest; first |
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Blight |
Something that withers growth, hopes, and ambitions |
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Eyries |
The neats of Eagles built in high places |
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Ghastly |
Horrible; frightful |
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Maturity |
State or quality or being full-grown |
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Sinister |
Threatening harm or evil |
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Acuteness |
Sharpness; keenness |
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Demeanor |
Outward behavior or conduct |
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Inaccessible |
Impossible to reach or enter |
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Palisades |
Fences made of tall stakes and used for fortifications; also the stakes themselves |
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Summons |
An order to attend or appear somewhere |
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Vanquished |
Conquered; defeated |
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What is buried under one of the gigantic trees? |
Treasure by captain Kidd the pirate |
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What do you think happened to Tom walkers wife? |
She was killed by the devil, her organs was hung |
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What service does Tom refuse to provide for the devil? |
To engaged into slave trade |
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As Tom gets older what does he starts carrying with him? |
A bible |
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What does the devil offer Tom walkers? |
Pirate kidd buried treasure (wealthy riches) |
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Boon |
Welcome; benefit; favor |
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Notorious |
Having a bad reputation |
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Washington Irving born? |
(1738) Into a wealthy New York family right at the close of the American Revolution. |
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Washington Irving wrote satirical essays under the pen name? |
Johnathan Oldstyle |
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Washington Irving also wrote? |
"The legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle" |
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Meter |
The systematic arrangement or stressed (') and syllables |
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Foot |
The basic unit of meter, which conduct of one stressed and one or more unstressed syllables |
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Mood |
Emotional quality |
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Solace |
Comfort; consolation |
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Succumbed |
Yielded to, a way, submitted to |
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According to this prologue, what are the sources of the Hiawatha legend? |
The source is the region its self |
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William Cullen Bryant |
He began writing poetry at the age 9, and drafted the first version of Thanatopsis. |
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Elapsed |
Passed; went by |
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Who has " a voice of gladness" and a healing sympathy? |
Nature has a voice of gladness and healing sympathy |
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Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) |
Write the ministers black veil and the Scarlett letter |
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Nathaniel born? |
In Salem, Massachusetts.112 years after the famous witch craft trials in which one of his ancestors was a judge. |
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Parable |
Story that teaches a moral lesson |
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Ambiguity |
Uncertain meaning |
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Symbol |
Is an object, setting, or even a character that has meaning as itself but also stanzas for some thing greater often as abstract |
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For whom is the speaker grieving ? |
Lenore |
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What is the speaker's first reaction when the bird enters his room? |
He's welcoming, amused, and charmed |
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What actions does the subject take? |
He's weld a cushion seat in front of the bird |
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Consequences |
Result; effort |
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Five genres |
Fiction, Drama,Nonfiction, Folklore, Poetry |
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Fifteen sub genres |
Realistic, Historical, Science, Fantasy: comedy, tragedy: informational, persuasive,biography,autobiography:fairytale ,legend,tall tale,myth,fable |
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Gothic literature |
A literary genre that began in England in the late 1700s |
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Edgar Allen Poe |
Born 1809 in Boston, son of improverished traveling actors. Adopted by John Allan a wealthy Virginia Merchant. Joined the army in 1827. |
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Henry wadsworth Longfellow first collection was ? |
Voices in the night in 1839 |
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Henry Longfellow was born and raised in ? Longfellow graduated from? |
Portland , Maine : Bowdoin College and went to teach Modern languages at Harvard University for 8 years. |
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Henry Longfellow narrative poems? (3) |
"The Song of Hiawatha" (1855), "The Courtship of Miles Standish"(1858), "Paul Revere's Ride "(1860) |
