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29 Cards in this Set
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Not actually a literary movement, but a religious belief
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Puritanism
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Plaine Style
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Puritanism
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Bible = God's Law
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Puritanism
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Men are naturally evil and deserve hell
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Puritanism
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Salvation can not be earned, but is predetermined.
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Puritanism
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Value reason over faith
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Rationalism
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Value now over afterlife
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Rationalism
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Humans are essentially good
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Rationalism
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A Utopia is absurd and impossible
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Rationalism
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Glorified nature and the common man
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Romanticism
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Valued free will and self-determinism
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Romanticism
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Held an interest in the mysterious, speculative, and supernatural
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Romanticism
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Authors stressed examination of inner feelings
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Romanticism
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valued imagination and insight as a path to understanding
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Romanticism
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believed in excess and spontaneity (seize the day!)
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Romanticism
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Valued experiences of the individual
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Romanticism
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Believed an ideal opposed to the actual
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Romanticism
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Maintained a deep awareness of the past
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Romanticism
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Humans achieve understanding intuitively
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Transcendentalism
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1st authentically original AMerican literacy and philosophical movement
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Transcendentalism
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The most fundamental truths of life exist in a universal and bening omniprescence called the oversoul.
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Transcendentalist
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VAlue individual, nature, and independence
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Transcendentalist
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Humanity is essentially divine and lacks potential for evil
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Transcendentalist
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Self-reliance were to be practiced; authority is unnecessary
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Transcendentalist
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Offshoot of Realism, depict people in real situations
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Naturalism
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Depicts humans as animals in the natural world
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Naturalism
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People viewed as victims of immutable natural laws (subject to destiny/fate)
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Naturalism
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Characters respond to forces, but have no control
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Naturalism
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Humans are driven by primal urges (fear, hunger, sex)
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Naturalism
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