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38 Cards in this Set
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How many poems did Emily Dickinson write?
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1775
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What was the narrator's problematic notion of charity in Bartleby?
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The problem was that the narrator befriended Bartleby to boost his self confidence.
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Constitution
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A written or unwritten system of principles & laws governing 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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An individual's day-by-day account of events and personal reactions.
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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. Usually subjective; an individual's perspective.
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Narrative
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A story told in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama. Writing that tells a story. Is told by a storyteller (called a narrator).
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Lyric Poetry
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Brief poems that express the writer's personal feelings and thoughts.
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Meaning of Bartleby
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Cultural/social critique on materialism of the time period.
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Emily Dickinson's Style
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Unconventional use of punctuation, brevity in poetry; use of figurative language.
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Over-Soul
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Transcendentalist belief that all forms of being are spiritually united through a shared soul.
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Charity in Bartleby
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The narrator viewed charity in terms of self-benefit; thought he was purchasing himself a place in heaven.
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Transcendentalism
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An American literary and philisophical movement in the 19th century.
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Transcendentalist Values
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Based in New England, believed human senses know only physical reality; fundamental truths of being lie outside of reach of senses, only can be found by intuition; believed human spirit reflected in nature.
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Personification
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A figure of speech in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics.
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Apostrophe
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A figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses an absent person, obeject or idea.
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Allegory
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A work of literature in which events, characters, detail of setting have symbolic meaning; example: character represents a principle.
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Poems by Dickenson
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Often struggled with questions of existence and death; sometimes poems had a deeper meaning, sometimes not.
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Walden Pond
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Thoreau lived here for two years alone to experience nature; used experiences to write Walden.
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Ambuguity
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Multiple meanings, often unclear.
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Anti-Transcendentalism
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A literary movement consisted of two writers; Melville and Hawthorne; focused on human limitations and potential for destructiveness.
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Meaning of Bartleby
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Cultural/social critique on materialsim of the time period.
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Anti-Transcendentalist (views of human nature)
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Humans have a great potential for evil and can be very destructive.
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Scrivener
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A copiest.
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Metaphor
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A figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else. Often a comparison between two things.
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Persuasion
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Is writing or speech that attempts to convince a reader to think or act in a particular way. Used in speeches by Patrick Henry, Thomas Pain, and Thomas Jefferson.
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Repetition
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The repeated use of any element of language--a sound, a word, a phrase, a clause, a sentence, a grammatical pattern, or a rhythmical pattern.
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Oratory
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Public speaking that is formal, persuasive, and emotionally appealing. (ex: Patrick Henry)
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Aphorisms
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A general truth or observation about life, usually stated conciselyand pointedly. Often wittyand wise statements.
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Autobiography
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Is a form of notification in which a person tells his or her own life story.
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Audience
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Very important to a text; greatly influences the style.
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Social Commentary/Cultural Critique
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When an author is critiquing society. (ex: Bartleby)
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Symbolism
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Was a literary movement during the 19th Century that influenced many poets of that time. Symbolism tried to express emotions by using a pattern of symbols.
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Tone
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The writer's attitude toward his or her subject, characters, or audience. Tone can be formal or informal, friendly or distant, personal or pompus.
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Empathy
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Identification with and understanding of another's situation, feelings, and motives.
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Figuative Language
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Is writing or speech not meant to be taken literally. It is used to express ideas in vivid and imaginative ways.
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Slave Narrative
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An autobiographical account of life as a slave. Often written to expose the horrors of human bondage, it documents a slave's experiences from his or her own point of view.
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Puritans
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English Protestants in colonial America; believed in simplification and strictness of religion.
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