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148 Cards in this Set
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oberlin college/university
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1st co-ed college
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3 prominent reform movements
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education
women's rights slavery |
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"The American Scholar"
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1837
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Mexican War
(treaty of Guadelupe Hidalge) |
1846-48
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California Gold Rush
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1848
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Seneca Falls Convention
(NY) |
1848
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The Scarlett Letter
by Hawthorne |
1850
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Moby Dick
by Melville |
1851
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Stowe |
1852
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Walden
by Thoreau |
1854
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South Carolina secedes from the Union
(Pres. Buchanan) |
1860
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The Civil War begins
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1861
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"Kaaterskill Falls"
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Thomas Cole
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iamb
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long-short
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trochee
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short-long
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anapest
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short-short-long
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dactyl
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long-short-short
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spondee
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long-long
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monometer
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one foot
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dimeter
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two feet
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trimeter
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three feet
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tetrameter
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four feet
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pentameter
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five feet
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hexameter
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six feet
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heptameter
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seven feet
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octameter
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eight feet
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sonnet
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fourteen lines of iambic pemtameter
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italian sonnet
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(Petrarchan)
a b b a a b b a c d c d c d |
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octave
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eight
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sestet
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six
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English sonnet
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(Shakespearean)
a b a b c d c d e f e f g g |
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quatrain
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four
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bloomer
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women's dress of the mid-19th century
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The Liberator
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Garrison
abolitionist paper |
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another name for this time period
(the flowering of NE) |
American Renaissance
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Transcendentalism
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-view that the basic truths of the universe lie beyond the knowledge we obtain from our senses, intuition
-nature/individual -radical abolitionists |
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Brahmins
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-Longfellow
-Lowell -Holmes -Thoreau -Emerson |
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Dissenters
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-disagree with transcendentalism
-Hawthorne, Melville |
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Essais
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by Montaigne
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Montaigne
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father of the essay
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Emerson
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-oversoul, God
-"to be great is to be misunderstood" -"build a better mouse trap, and the world will build a beaten path to your door" |
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"Friendship"
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by Emerson
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"Experience"
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by Emerson
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"Fate"
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by Emerson
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"The Journals"
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by Emerson
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"The Rhordord"
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by Emerson
about flowers |
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"Brahma"
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by Emerson
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"Concord Hymn"
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by Emerson
Lexington and Concord memorial monument dedication |
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analogy
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a comparison between things that are somewhat similar
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"The Snow Storm"
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by Emerson
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paradox
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statement that is self-contradictory yet true
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apostrophe
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a figure of speech that directly addresses an absent person, an abstract quality, or something intangible
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Typee
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by Melville
1st novel dont need to civilize "savages" we need to learn from them |
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Moby Dick
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-by Melville
-faithful voyage of Pequod (ship) -Ahab persues Moby Dick who ate his leg -Ishmael-narrator -Ahab-monomaniac-to get great white whale, obsessive -left on Christmas -spanish gold goes to who finds Moby Dick -Starbuck-came to kill whales, not captain's revenge Ahab knows he has a problem, can only die by hemp, hanged by harpoon rope -boat sinks |
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"Shiloh: A Requiem"
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by Melville
Civil War poem |
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"The Maldive Shark"
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by Melville
pilot fish help evil shark needs them |
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Melville
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-"fated to be a great voyager"
-Moby Dick- great literary achievment -1819-1891 -gpa in Boston Tea Party -went to Albany Academy -on the Acushment, deserted ship, spent 1 month with cannibals -in Honolulu, was a pin boy and auctioneer clerk -dedicated Moby Dick to Hawthorne -custom inspector in NY -one son killed himself, one son got sick -died in sleep |
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"a whale ship was my Yale and Harvard"
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Ishmael in Moby Dick
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Omoo
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by Melville
sequel to Typee |
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Marty
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by Melville
romantic novel failure |
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Red Burn
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by Melville
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White Jacket
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by Melville
persuasive argument dramatized naval horrors had more influence than anything |
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Arrowhead
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Melville's farm near Pittsfield
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Pierre
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by Melville
worst financial and critical failure |
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Piazza Tales
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by Melville
"Benito Serino" "Bartleby the Scrivener" |
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Battle Pieces
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by Melville
civil war poetry |
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Billy Bud Sailor
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by Melville
last book moved ships during Napoleonic War Billy Bud- innocent, good, kills officer, is hanged, Christ-like figure |
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cetology
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study of whales
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ambergris
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whale indigestion
became costliest perfumes |
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Hawthorne
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-born in Salem, Mass
-embarrassed of his relatives(one- SWT judge another-ordered public whipping of Quaker woman) -went to Bowdoin College with Longfellow and Pierce -wife- Sophia Peabody -worked at Boston & Salem Custom Houses -American consul in Liverpool, Eng -lived at Brook Farm |
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portraits of Abraham Lincoln and photos of Civil War
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Matthew Brady
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Fanshawe
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by Hawthorne
1st novel |
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Masses from an Old Manse
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by Hawthorne
"Young Goodman Brown" "Rapaccini's Daughter" |
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The House of Seven Gables
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by Hawthorne
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Tanglewood Tales
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by Hawthorne
a book for children |
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Twice-Told Tales
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by Hawthorne
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The Scarlett Letter
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by Hawthorne
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The Blithedale Romance
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by Hawthorne
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The Marble Faun
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by Hawthorne
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"Dr. Heidegger's Experiment"
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by Hawthorne
"fountain of youth" |
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The Minister's Black Veil
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by Hawthorne
secret sin |
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The Notebook and Other Writings
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by Hawthorne
talks about famous people of the time |
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Longfellow
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-only American with a bust in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey
-attended Bowdoin College with Hawthorne and Pierce -taught Modern Languages at Harvard and Bowdoin -foremost of the Fireside Poets -severely burned while trying to save wife from fire -most popular poet of his time |
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Outre-Mer: A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea
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by Longfellow
1st book |
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The Children's Hour
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by Longfellow
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Voices of the Night
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by Longfellow
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The Village Blacksmith
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by Longfellow
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Hyperion
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by Longfellow
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a translation of Dante's Divine Comedy
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by Longfellow
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"Paul Revere's Ride"
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by Longfellow
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"The Courtship of Miles Standish"
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by Longfellow
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"The Song of Hiawatha"
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by Longfellow
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"The Psalm of Life"
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by Longfellow
live your life |
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"Nature"
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by Longfellow
Italian Sonnet |
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"The Arrow and the Song"
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by Longfellow
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"Evangeline"
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by Longfellow
long narrative verse lost and found each other Acadians |
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"The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls"
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by Longfellow
life goes on |
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Lowell
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-1st editor of Atlantic Monthly
-went to Harvard Law -American ambassador to Spain and England -succeeded Longfellow as chairman of Modern Languages at Harvard |
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simile
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makes an explicit comparison between things that are basically different, but can be thought of as alike in some respect (like or as)
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Biglow Papers
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by Lowell
protest against Mexican War |
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A Fable for Critics
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by Lowell
makes fun of leading writers of the day |
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"Commemoration Ode"
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by Lowell
wrote about Lincoln |
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The Vision of Sir Launfel
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by Lowell
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metaphor
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comparison is implied rather than stated
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The Courtin'
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by Lowell
written in dialect and about couple's first date |
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Emerson
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-gave speech on American Independence
-father was a preacher -1803-1882 -father died at 8 -Harvard at 14 (family tradition) -unitarian preacher but had doubts, Boston 2nd Unitatian Church -Ellen Tucker- wife- died of TB -married Lydia Jackson of Concord, 4 children -friends with Alcotts -lived at Orchard House -hated Fugitive Slave Act -met with Saturday Club |
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"Nature"
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by Emerson
God was not dead but speaking life is not to be learned but lived |
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"American Scholar"
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by Emerson
first lecture on American Independence |
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The Dial
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by Emerson
worked with Fuller (editor) and Thoreau on this |
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"Self-Reliance"
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by Emerson
essay "to believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in you private heart is true for all men- that is genius" |
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Thoreau
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-lived in Cabin on Walden Lake
-ultimate unconformist -1817-1862 -father worked at pencil factory -went to Harvard -he and brother opened Concord Academy (closed after bro's death) -lived with Emersons -lived in woods for 2 years 2 months -refused to pay poll taxes, spent a night in jail -activist -Brown was a hero -Emerson spoke at his funeral, "he had a beautiful soul" -funny pig story |
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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
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by Thoreau
about his river trip with bro |
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Walden
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by Thoreau
2000 copies about life in the woods 1854 "the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation" |
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requiem
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musical composition or poem lamenting the dead
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"Civil Disobedience"
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by Thoreau
g'ment is best which governs least |
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scansion
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the rhythms of a live of poetry is usually described in terms of its meter and its length
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idyll
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a literary work describing a simple, pleasant pastoral scene
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imagery
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writing through images, words, or phrases that evoke the sensations of sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste
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stanza
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a unit of poetry longer than a line
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Dickinson
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-Belle of Amherst
-her father- treasurer of Amherst college, a US Congressman -went to Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, was unable to accept Christ while there -didnt meet any writers in this section -advised not to publish her poetry -only 7 poems were published during her life -profoundly affected by family deaths -poems are compact and on ordinary subjects -Mabel Loomis Todd deciphered Dickinson's handwriting and prepared poems for publication |
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"This is My Letter to the World"
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by Dickinson
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"I Never Saw a Moor"
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by Dickinson
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"Exultation is the Going"
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by Dickinson
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"I Taste the Liquor Never Brewed"
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by Dickinson
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"Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church"
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by Dickinson
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"'Faith' Is a Fine Invention"
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by Dickinson
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"'Hope' Is the Thing with Feathers"
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by Dickinson
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"Success Is Counted Sweetest"
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by Dickinson
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"The Soul Selects Her Own Society"
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by Dickinson
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"I Took My Power in My Hand"
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by Dickinson
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"Much Madness Is Divinest Scene"
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by Dickinson
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"It Sifts from Leaden Sieves"
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by Dickinson
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"Apparently with No Surprise"
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by Dickinson
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"A Narrow Fellow in the Grass"
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by Dickinson
about a snake |
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"There Came a Wind Like a Bugle
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by Dickinson
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"There's a Certain Slant of Light"
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by Dickinson
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"My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close"
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by Dickinson
paradox |
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"The Bustle in the House"
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by Dickinson
about a funeral |
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"Because I Could Not Stop for Death"
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by Dickinson
"Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell" |
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Holmes
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-dean of Harvard Medical School
-his son, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr, was a US Supreme Court Justice -helped organize the Saturday Club |
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The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
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by Holmes
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"The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay"
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by Holmes
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"Old Ironsides"
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by Holmes
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"The Chambered Nautilus"
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by Holmes
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Whittier
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-was a Quaker
-a notable abolitionist speaker |
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"The Barefoot Boy"
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Whittier
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"Barbara Frietchie"
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Whittier
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Snowbound
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Whittier
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