English Iii Final

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Time of Faith over Reason.

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Colonial Period

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All aspects of the puritans' lives were focused on getting to heaven

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Colonial Period

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anything related to a "religious life" would be ideal -- beneficial and enjoyable

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Colonial Period

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They had to earn salvation-- it wasn't given to them

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Colonial Period

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Their biggest fear was eternal damnation

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Colonial Period

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Puritans wrote in plain style

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Colonial Period

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Puritans believed that everything -- possessions, good times, sickness, death, spiritual conflict etc-- was god's will

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Colonial Period

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Also called period of nationalism

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Romantic Period

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Writers looked at themselves as professional writers

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Romantic Period

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writers looked at american subjects for inspiration

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Romantic Period

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writers had a sense of being AMERICAN

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Romantic Period

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writers demonstrated a love of beauty and nature

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Romantic Period

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writers focused on real life, but they could also use the supernatural

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Romantic Period

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writers found inspiration in nature

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Romantic Period

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writers distrusted industry and city life

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Romantic Period

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uses nature to illustrate lessons learned

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Romantic Poetry

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uses figurative language

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Romantic Poetry

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feels comfortable in nature, uncomfortable in civilization

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Romantic Hero

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uses intuition and superior instinct rather than "book sense"

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Romantic Hero

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is happy with his "world" as long as he is in Nature he doesn't want his world to change

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Romantic Hero

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shy around women

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Romantic Hero

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unsophisticated and naive about the ways of the world

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Romantic Hero

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centered in New England

leader Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Transcendentalist movement

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believed that fundamental reality is beyond a person's senses, so they never know or ask to know reality

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Transcendentalists

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Reality must be discovered through intuition and beyond reason and sensory experience

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transscendentalists

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wrote using free verse

rhythm based on cadence

used catalogs

used figurative language

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Whitman

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rhyming sound that is not exact fellow/follow mystery/mastery

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slant rhyme

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wrote using slant rhyme

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Dickinson

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events from a particular region

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realism

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the use of natual/actual speech patterns and language

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realism

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the use of local color

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realism

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focus on one character's thoughts

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realism

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presentation of life as it really is

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realism

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will not find a hero

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realism

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express irony through dialect dialogue and situations

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realistic writers

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americans became disillusioned with america

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modernist period

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left its inhabitants alone, uncertain and confused

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modernist period

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many artists and weiters moved to paris and became expatriates

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modernist period

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literary device of stream of consciousness gained in populatiry during this period

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modernist period

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realistic flow of a characters thoughts

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stream of consciousness

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protagonist in a story is usually agitated and uncomfortable with the present situation or arrangement and feels isolated

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modernist period

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insight about human life that is revealed in a literary work

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theme

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attitude a writer takes toward the subject of a work, the characters in it or the audience

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tone