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43 Cards in this Set
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Time of Faith over Reason.
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Colonial Period
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All aspects of the puritans' lives were focused on getting to heaven
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Colonial Period
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anything related to a "religious life" would be ideal -- beneficial and enjoyable
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Colonial Period
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They had to earn salvation-- it wasn't given to them
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Colonial Period
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Their biggest fear was eternal damnation
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Colonial Period
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Puritans wrote in plain style
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Colonial Period
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Puritans believed that everything -- possessions, good times, sickness, death, spiritual conflict etc-- was god's will
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Colonial Period
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Also called period of nationalism
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Romantic Period
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Writers looked at themselves as professional writers
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Romantic Period
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writers looked at american subjects for inspiration
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Romantic Period
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writers had a sense of being AMERICAN
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Romantic Period
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writers demonstrated a love of beauty and nature
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Romantic Period
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writers focused on real life, but they could also use the supernatural
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Romantic Period
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writers found inspiration in nature
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Romantic Period
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writers distrusted industry and city life
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Romantic Period
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uses nature to illustrate lessons learned
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Romantic Poetry
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uses figurative language
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Romantic Poetry
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feels comfortable in nature, uncomfortable in civilization
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Romantic Hero
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uses intuition and superior instinct rather than "book sense"
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Romantic Hero
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is happy with his "world" as long as he is in Nature he doesn't want his world to change
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Romantic Hero
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shy around women
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Romantic Hero
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unsophisticated and naive about the ways of the world
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Romantic Hero
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centered in New England
leader Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Transcendentalist movement
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believed that fundamental reality is beyond a person's senses, so they never know or ask to know reality
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Transcendentalists
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Reality must be discovered through intuition and beyond reason and sensory experience
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transscendentalists
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wrote using free verse
rhythm based on cadence used catalogs used figurative language |
Whitman
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rhyming sound that is not exact fellow/follow mystery/mastery
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slant rhyme
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wrote using slant rhyme
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Dickinson
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events from a particular region
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realism
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the use of natual/actual speech patterns and language
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realism
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the use of local color
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realism
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focus on one character's thoughts
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realism
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presentation of life as it really is
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realism
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will not find a hero
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realism
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express irony through dialect dialogue and situations
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realistic writers
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americans became disillusioned with america
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modernist period
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left its inhabitants alone, uncertain and confused
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modernist period
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many artists and weiters moved to paris and became expatriates
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modernist period
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literary device of stream of consciousness gained in populatiry during this period
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modernist period
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realistic flow of a characters thoughts
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stream of consciousness
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protagonist in a story is usually agitated and uncomfortable with the present situation or arrangement and feels isolated
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modernist period
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insight about human life that is revealed in a literary work
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theme
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attitude a writer takes toward the subject of a work, the characters in it or the audience
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tone
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