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42 Cards in this Set
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Native American/Settlement
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NA- folklore, set-narratives, diaries, accounts
orally told John Smith William Bradford |
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Puritanism
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Religious poems, and sermons, hymns
praising God "in every way" simple [nothing extravagane] people are born with sin predestination Johnathan Edwards Edward Taylor Anne Bradsheet |
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Age of Reason
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Newspapers, speeches, political documents
value over faith good by nature Ben Franklin Thomas Jefferson Thomas Paine |
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Nationalism [ alot of pride for country]
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american folklore, first short stories poetry- feelings, novels
focused on western expansion created a unique Am. voice set in America literature to entertain Am. voice: quest of individual to define him or herself Fireside poets: Longfellow Whittier Lowell Holmes |
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Romanticism
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creative writing, short stories
elevated imagination fantastical over reason emotions over reason concentration on individualism nature supernatural Poe, Bryant, Cooper, Irving, Hawthorne |
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Transcendentalism
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essays
inherently good experience the world individualism self-reliance goodness of ma reach truth with inuition rather with logic and reason Emerson, Thoreau |
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squander
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spend or use wastefully
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fasting
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eating very little or nothing
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ineffable
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inexpressible
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dolorous
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sad, mournful
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vigilance
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watchfulness
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disposition
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management
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connate
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existing naturally, innate
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anomalous
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abnormal
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tenaciously:
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persistently
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thwarted
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stopped
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Had stories set in NY
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Irving
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had two wives die tragically
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Longfellow
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Pearl's heavenly father is...
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no one
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worked to abolish slavery
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Whittier
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Thoreau lived from
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1817-1862
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Dickinson lived from
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1830-1886
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Emerson lived from
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1803-1882
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Whittman lived from
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1819-1892
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Prose writing is an example of...
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gothic romanticism
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Thantatopsis means...
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vision of death
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From Walden, Thoreau went to the woods to...
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live his life with purpose
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Emerson told the readers to ...
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trust himself or herself in self reliance
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The Fall of Usher and The Raven are by...
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Poe
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The Fall of Usher falls under...
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Romanticism
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The Devil and Tom Walker is by
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Irving
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TD and Tom Walker falls under...
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romanticism
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I wrote A Tide Rises, The Tide Falls and A Psalm of Life.
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Longfellow
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Longfellow, Whittier, Lowell, Holmes wrote _______ and are ________.
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nationalism, fireside poets
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I wrote Thanatopsis.
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I am Bryant.
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I wrote Old Ironsides.
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I am Holmes.
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I wrote The First Snowfall.
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I am Lowell
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I wrote Snowbound.
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I am Whittier.
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Emerson and Thoreau wrote _____.
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Transcendentalism
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I wrote Nature, Self-Reliance, and Concord Hymn, and Snowstorm...
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I am Emerson.
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Emerson and Thoreau wrote in....
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Transcendentalism.
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I wrote Leaves of Grass.
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Whitman
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