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"Thanatopsis"

William cullen Bryant

"To a waterfowl"

William cullen Bryant

"The devil and Tom walker"

Washington Irving

"The prairie"

James fenimore Cooper

"Leatherstocking tales"

James fenimore Cooper

"The oval portrait"

Edgar Allen Poe

"The raven"

Edgar Allen Poe

"The spy"

James fenimore Cooper

2 main literary groups in this time

Knickerbockers and Bread And Cheese Club

Who was in knickerbockers

Irving and Bryant

Who was in bread and cheese club

Cooper

3 focuses of literature from American romantic period

Imagination, nature, and mystery

Who focused on imagination

Irving and Cooper

Who focused on nature

Bryant

Who focused on mystery

Poe

Alteration

Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

Allison

A reference to something assumed known

Archaic language

Language no longer used

Assonance

Repetition of vowel sounds

Blank verse

Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

Characterization

The way an author reveals the personality of a character

Consonance

Repetition of consonant sounds within words

Folk tale

Stories handed down orally among common people of a particular culture. They usually teach a lesson or express a truth about life

Frame story

A story within a story

Irony

When what happens is different then what the reader expects

Motivation

The reason behind a person's words or actions

Personification

Giving human traits to non human things

Quatrain

4 line stanza

Satire

Writing that ridicules or criticizes something

Setting

Time and place of literary work

Stock character

Stereotypical characters

Theme

Overall idea of story

Tone

Author's attitude towards subject and audience

Apostrophe

A figure of speech where the speaker addresses, directly, an absent person or personified object or idea.