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list and draw the 5 metrical feet that we discussed
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iamb U/ ;trochee /U ;anapest UU/ ;dactyl /UU ;spondee //
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iamb
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U/
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trochee
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/U
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anapest
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UU/
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dactyl
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spondee
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give the names for the feet for the lines of poetry containing between one and eight feet..
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(1) monometer,(2) dimeter, (3)trimeter, (4)tetrameter, (5)pentameter,(6)hexameter, (7)heptameter,(8) octameter
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define a sonnet, giving the number of lines and meter
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14 (coughHOLLYcough) linesof iambic pentameter
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Italian (petrarchan) sonnet rhyme scheme
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a b b a a b b a c d c d c d
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English (shakespearean) sonnet rhyme scheme
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a b a b c d c d e f e f g g
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Billy Budd
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Melville
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"civil disobedience"
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thoreau
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Evangeline
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Longfellow
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1st editor of the Atlantic monthly
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lowell
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"young goodman brown"
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Hawthorne
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Omoo
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melville
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belle of amherst
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dickinson
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"i never saw a moor"
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dickinson
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Fanshawe
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hawthorne
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"the tide rises, the tide falls"
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longfellow
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was a quaker abolishonist
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whittier
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a professor of medicine at harvard
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holmes
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"self-reliance"
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emerson
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helped to save the U.S.S constitution
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holmes
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"success is counted sweetest"
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dickinson
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snowbound
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whittier
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battle-pieces
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melville
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"the courtship of miles standish"
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longfellow
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a fable for critics
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lowell
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moby dick
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melville
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typee
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melville
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had one 7 poems published while alive
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dickinson
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delivered out "cultural" declaration of independence
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emerson
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"old ironsides"
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holmes
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only writer who was both born and died in concord
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thoreau
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badly burned in a fire
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longfellow
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the blithedale romance
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hawthorne
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"a narrow fellow in the grass"
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dickinson
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"paul reveres ride"
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longfellow
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walden
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thoreau
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a week on the concord and merrimack rivers
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thoreau
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has a busti n the poet's corner of westminister abbey
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longfellow
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the house of seven gables
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hawthorne
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the chambered nautilus
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holmes
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thomas wentworht higginson and mabel loomis todd assembled this writer's collection
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dickinson
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"dr heidegger's experiment"
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hawthorne
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"bartleby the scrivener"
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melville
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"some keep the sabbath going to church"
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dickinson
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minister of the second unitarian church in boston
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emerson
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the vision of sir lanfaul
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lowell
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mosses from an old manse
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hawthorne
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a leading female transcendentalist who worked on The Dial
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fuller
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wrote little women
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louisa may alcott
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artist of "kaaterskill falls"
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cole
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artist of photographs of abraham lincoln and the civil war
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brady
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3 reform movements prominent in the american renaissance
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-womens rights -abolishion(slavery) |
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narrator of Moby Dick
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Ishamael
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captian in moby dick
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Ahab
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ship in moby dick
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pequad
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literary group that included melville and hawthorne and believe in the evil in the universe
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dissenters
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name of the high caste , intellectual group that included longfellow, lowell, and holmes
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brahamins
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the belief that the basic truths of the universe lie beyond the knowledge we obtain from our sences; believed by emerson and thoreau
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transcendentalism
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"simplicity, simplicity, simplicity"
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thoreau
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"the mass of men least lives of quiet desperation"
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thoreau
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"parting is all we know of heaven, / and all we need of hell."
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dickinson
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"a foolish consistency is hobgoblin of little minds"
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emerson
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"build thee more statley mansions, O my soul, /as the swift seasons roll"
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holmes
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"I heartily accept the motto -- that government is best which governs least"
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thoreau
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"to be great is to be misunderstood."
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emerson
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"if i can read a book and it makes my whole body go so cold no fire could warm me, i know that is poetry."
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dickinson
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"is a man does not keep pace with his companions , perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer"
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thoreau
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