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19 Cards in this Set
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created 1st American literary hero
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James Fenimore Cooper
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Kept journal of Pilgrims struggle
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William Bradford
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1st great black autobiography
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Frederick Douglass
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Why was Zora Neale Hurston was criticized
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Didn't focus on the struggle of blacks
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Why was Gettysburg Address is "great"
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conveyed a stronger message and quicker than previous candidate
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poet of the self
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Thoreau
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connected spiritual wold to everyday world
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Transcendentalist
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2 sc. poets we covered
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James Dicky
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poet Laureate of Harlem Renaissance
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Langston Hughes
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What was Hemingway hero
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A man's man who kept his head high despite chaos
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farmers southern planter and author
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William Byrd
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1st notable American poet
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Anne Bradstreet
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Who created vernacular
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Mark Twain
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Poet Laureate of confederacy
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Henry Timrod
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most recognized slave narrative
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Frederick Douglass autobiography
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founder of Transcendentalism
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Emerson
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1st great satirist
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William Byrd, Mark Twain
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most powerful orator of American Revolution
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Patrick Henry
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Master of Souther Gothic tale
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William Faulkner
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