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35 Cards in this Set
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Constitution
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A written or uinwritten system of fundamental laws and principles governing a society.
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Oral Tradition
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The process of passing down sayings, songs, tales, and myths from one generation to the next by word of mouth.
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Journals
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A diary, of individual's day by day account of events and personal reactions. A journal provides valuable details that can be supplied only by a aparticipant or an eyewitness. A journal reveals much about the writer.
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History
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A factual account of events in the life or development of a people, nation, institution, or culture.
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Narrative
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Writing that tells a story. The story being related may be fictional, as in novels and short stories, or factual, as in historical accounts, autobiographies, and biographies.
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Puritans
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A religious group of people who set up Plymouth colony. Very harsh and disciplined people.
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Lyric Poetry
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Brief poems that express the writers personal feelings an thoughts.
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Empathy
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Capacity for experiencing the feelings and thoughs of another.
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Figurative Language
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Language that is not intended to be interpreted literally.
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Tone
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Refers to the writer's attitude toward his or her subject, characters, or audience.
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Symbolism
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A person, place or thing that has a meanig in itself and also represents someting larger than itself.
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Social commentary / Cultural critique
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Work of literature that critiques society.
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Slave narrative
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An autobiographical account of life as a slave.
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Audience
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A group or listeners or spectators.
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Autobiography
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A person's account of his or her life.
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Aphorism
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A short, concise statement expressiong a wise or clever observation or a general truth.
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Oratory
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The art of skilled, eloquent public speaking.
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Repetition
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Act or instance of repeating.
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Persuasion
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An attempt to convince listeners to think or act in a certain way.
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Metaphor
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A comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things.
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Personification
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The attribution of human powers and characteristics to something that is not human, such as an object, an aspect or nature, or an abstract idea.
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Transcendentalism
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An intellectual movement that directly or indirectly affected most of the writers of New England.
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Transcendentalist Values
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Focused their attention on the human spirits and were interested in the natural world and its relationship to humanity.
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Over-soul
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Universal soul shared by God, Nature, and Humanity.
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Apostrophe
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A literary device in which a writer directly addresses an inatimate object, an abstract idea, or absent person.
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Walden Pond
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The place that Thoreau wrote his materpiece, Walden.
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Anti-Transcendentalism
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A literary movemnt that essentially consisted of only two writers.
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Anti-Transcendentalist Views
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They focused on the limitations and potential destructiveness of the human spirit
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Allegory
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A work of literature in which events, characters, and detals of setting have a symbolic meaning.
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Scrivener
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A scribe, one who writes or copies writing
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Ambiguity
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Refers to uncertainty of intention or meaning.
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The meaning of Bartleby
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A critique on modernization, materialism, and society.
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The narrators problematic notion of charity in Bartleby
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Charity: That which is not really charity but makes the narrator feel it is such.
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Emily Dickinson's Unique Style
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Unconventional use of puncuation/capitalization. Brevity of her line/stanzas. Figurative Language.
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# of Poems written by Dickinson
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1775
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