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38 Cards in this Set
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Emily Dickinson
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led a quiet, reclusive life/ "Because I could not stop for death"/ "Much Madness Is Divinest Sense"- cruelty and intolerence/ "Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church" - deep but uncoventional faith/ "I Never Saw a Moor" - faith/"Success Is Counted Sweetest" - to people who never succeed/ "Hope is the Thing with Feathers" - hope is warm and demanding
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"The Book of Wisdom"
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speaker does not know as much as he thought
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Local Color
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writing that portrays customs, dialects, etc., of a certain region of country
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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famous Transcendentalist
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"Self-Reliance"
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holds integrity of the mind sacred/ "a foolish consistency is the hobglobin of little minds"
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Edgar Allan Poe
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probed the irrational, dark forces in humans/ modern detective story has orgins in his works/ short stories designed to produce in a single effect
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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wrote "The Song of Hiawatha","The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls" - signifies powerful rhythms of nature, especially life and death/ "A Psalm of Life" - live in the present, work toward achieving goals."...Time is fleeting
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"To a Waterfowl"
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contains symbol of man's lonely journey through life
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"The Chambered Nautilus" - uses a shell as a symbol of spiritual growth/ presents idea that life is a preparation for death
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Anaphora
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deliberate repetition of words, phrases, or sentences at beginnings of successive clauses, sentences or paragraphs to intensify impact
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Henry David Thoreau
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went to the woods "to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."/ advice - "Simplify"/ left Walden Pond to try other experiments in life/ famous Transcendentalist
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"The Devil and Tom Walker"
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message that greed and selfishness will be punished/ pokes fun at heartless money leaders, misers, religious fanatics/ folk tale that warns against greed
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"Brahmins"
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James Russell Lowell, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"The Raven"
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presents an ominous, dreary, mysterious mood/ speaker trying to forget grief over death of loved one/ contains symbolic reminder of the necessity of loss and suffering in life
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"Concord Hymn"
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colonists fighting in Revolutionary War
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Washington Irving
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first really well-known and distinguished American Literary figure/ primary purpose in writing was to amuse and entertain
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"The Rhodora"
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speaker and flower share the same power behind creation and purpose
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"Thanatopsis"
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stresses that all humans are united in death/ emphasizes the closeness between humans and nature
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Herman Melville
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a "Dissenter"/ masterpiece - Moby Dick
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Allusion
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a reference to a literary work or to a person or even outside of literature
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Bret Harte
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local color writer; dealt with Western Frontier/ hailed as new genius of American letters
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"The American Scholar"
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calls scholar in the right state - "Man Thinking"/ most important influence upon the scholar-nature/second influence into the spirit of the scholar - mind of the past/described as our "intellectual Declaration of Independence"
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Emerson
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from "Nature" mirrors range of human emotions, suggests a return to reason and faith in the woods
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"The Fall of the House of Usher"
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Gothic tale with a gloomy setting/ most important element is mood/ tarn represents the evil that surrounds and destroys
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"Brahma"
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related to the concept of the "Over-Soul"/ presents death as an illusion in context of all eternity
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James Fenimore Cooper
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wrote The Leatherstocking Tales / gave America one of its great heroes in Natty Bumppo
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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wrote The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables/ a "Dissenter"
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William Cullen Bryant
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saw nature as an answer to human wants and needs / "father of American Poetry"
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Charles Brown
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generally regarded as the first "American Gothic" novelist
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"Song of Myself"
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unity of poet and all other individuals
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"War is Kind"
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satirical poem, paints a scene of slaughter on battlefield
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"A Noiseless,Patient Spider"
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human relationships or a union with God
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Walt Whitman
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masterpiece - Leaves of Grass/ great elergy to Lincoln - "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd/ Romantic poet / Poet of Democracy/ used free verse - poetry without regular patterns of rhyme or meter
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Hawthorne
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"The Ministers Black Veil" - veil represents hidden sin of all humans and the isolation it can cause/ a parable about secret sin/ theme of disguised evil
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Thoreau
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from "Civil Disobedience" - protest against Mexican War; "That government is best which governs least."
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Stephen Crane
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a major naturalist/ believed the individuals product of heredity and environment/ most responsible for bringing naturalism to American Literature/ realistic novel - The Red Badge of Courage
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"I Hear America Singing"
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varied individuals combined into an admirable whole
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