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1
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To a waterfowl

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William Cullen Bryant

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The Raven

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Edgar Allan Poe

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3
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The fall of the house of usher

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Edgar Allan Poe

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4
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Thanatopsis

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William Cullen Bryant

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5
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The devil and tom walker

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Washington Irving

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6
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The bells

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Edgar Allan Poe

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7
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To Helen

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Edgar Allan Poe

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8
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In the early 1800s Americans went from what to what

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Colonialism to nationalism

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9
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What were Americans becoming

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Manufacturers

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10
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The early 1800s were a time of great

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Expansion

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11
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Jackson warned that ___ could become the greatest dividing threat

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Internal division

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12
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What replaced classicism

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Romanticism

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13
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What did romanticism value

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Intuition, humanitarian reform, and the mysterious

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14
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Who promoted transcendentalism

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Emerson

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15
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How did transcendentalism see nature

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Organic process, constantly developing, ever changing

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16
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First national literary hero

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Natty bumps

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17
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Who saw nature as a great teacher of spiritual truths

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William Bryant

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18
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Irvin’s most famous stories are adaptations of

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German folk tales

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19
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What did irving’s first substantial writing do for him

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Nothing

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20
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Irving began using what to allow his readers to connect with the past

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Legends and old tales

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21
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When did Irving return to the US and how

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1832 foremost writer

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22
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What did Irving write 5 volumes of

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Biography of George Washington

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23
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Most popular story in the world

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Rip van winkle

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24
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What does Irving combine in hearsay

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Supernatural and natural

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25
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Setting for our story from Irving

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Not Vermont 1827

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26
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Who buried the treasure and who guarded it

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Captain Kidd

The devil

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27
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How did tom and his wife live

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In strife

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28
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What did tom discover first

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Skull with Indian tomahawk in it

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29
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Nickname for the devil

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Old scratch

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30
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Why did tom not sell himself to the devil

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To spite his wife

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31
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What was tom worried about

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Valuables

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32
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What was in the apron

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Parts of his wife

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33
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Would tom be a slave trader

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No

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34
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What did tom do

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Became a money lender in Boston
Became very wealthy
Tried to cheat the devil by going to church carrying a bible, and burying his horse upside down with a saddle on

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35
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How did the devil find tom

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Unprepared

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36
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What happened to tom’s wealth

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Cinders, shavings, skeletons, and ashes

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37
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What did cooper write

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30 novels, naval history, several volumes of social comments

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38
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First novel to make serious use of American history

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The spy by cooper

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39
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What is cooper’s theme

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Effect of the frontier upon American character

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40
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Bumpo’s morality has been formed by ___ and represents ___

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The wilderness

Cooper’s hope for a moral renewal in America

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41
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America’s most cherished myth

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Wilderness brings new beginning and continual youth

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42
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Bumpo’s other names

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Deerslayer

Hawkeye

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43
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What were rive oak and panther known for

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Mental, physical

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44
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How did the Chiefs look at deerslayer in court

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Nothing decided yet

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45
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How did riven oak regard deerslayer

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Respected him

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46
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Deerslayer’s reaction to marrying sumac

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Refused

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47
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What happened with the tomahawk

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Panther threw it at deerslayer, who caught it and threw it back, killing him, then he ran

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48
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Did deerslayer hide in a cave

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No

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49
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Did deerslayer have an oar

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A stick, until a bullet shattered it

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50
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Did deerslayer get shot

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No

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51
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Did he escape the Hurons and if so how

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Yes, by drifting with the wind

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52
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What does Bryant see in to a waterfowl

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Solitary bird migrating south

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53
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Does Bryant think about hunters

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Yes

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54
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Eagles and mountains in Bryant

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No

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55
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Does Bryant believe in a power guiding the birds

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Yes

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56
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Does the bird land

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No

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57
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When will the bird’s flight end

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Rest in summer

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58
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Lesson of to a waterfowl

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God guided the bird and would guide the author

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59
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What does nature do in Thanatopsis

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Speaks in various ways to our diverse moods

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60
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What to do when worried about death

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Go outside and listen to nature’s voice

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61
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Does Bryant mention the soul

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No

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62
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What does Bryant call the earth

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Great tomb

Magnificent couch

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63
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When did Poe lose his parents

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Early in life

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64
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Was Poe ever formally adopted by Allan

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No

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65
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Did Poe graduate

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No

66
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Did Poe ever get Allan’s affection

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No

67
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Who did Poe live with, and what happened there

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An aunt, switched from poetry to fiction

68
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What happens when Poe is 26

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He marries his 13 year old cousin with the help of his aunt

69
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What does Poe use imagination for

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Exit the real world and enter the inner world

70
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Was Poe successful

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Wrote poetry, remained poor

71
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What happened after the death of his first wife

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Never remarried

72
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Poe in general

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Creator of effective poetry
Developer of short story
Inventor of detective story
Explorer of dark inner self

73
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Was the house of usher pleasant

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No

74
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Crack did what

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Ran from roof to water in the tarn

75
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First spoken words of usher

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I shall perish I must perish in this deplorable folly

76
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About Madeleine

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Roderick’s sister

Dying

77
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Rider’s attempts to help usher

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Failed

78
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When does usher confess to burying Madeleine alive

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Hearing sounds during the story

79
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Does the rider get away

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Yes

80
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How does the bells progress

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Darker

81
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What does the bells use

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Onomatopoeia

82
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Poe myth

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Debauched character ruined talent

83
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Poe became

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The most influential American writer of his time and maybe any time

84
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French poet Baudelaire tried to

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Promote Poe throughout France

85
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Baudelaire admired

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Poe’s imaginative penetration of the mind’s abnormal states

86
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Poe’s prototype for detectives

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Frenchman Auguste dupin

87
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Dupin portrayed as

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Taking many clues and arriving at culprit

88
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When did surrealism first appear

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WWI in France

89
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Surreal definition of reality

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Irrational, fantastic, bizarre

90
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How did surrealism flourish best

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Visually

91
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Technique in surrealism

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Familiar object with weird texture

92
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What did surrealists want to do

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Jolt us out of accustomed way of Seeing things

Stress no clear line between subject and object or dreams and reality

93
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Dictionary definition of a word

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De notation

94
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Concepts and emotions associated with a word

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Connotation

95
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Choice in selecting words

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Diction

96
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Syllable scheme or pattern using stressed and unstressed accents

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Feet

97
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Repeated vowel sounds

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Assonance

98
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Repeated consonant sounds

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Alliteration

99
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Words whose sound reveals their meaning

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Onomatopoeia

100
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Extended metaphor through whole poem

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Conceit

101
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Physical object that represents something non-physical

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Symbol

102
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Something in the past that is widely known and understood

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Allusion

103
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Between 1820-1850, 28 utopian communities were founded

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False

104
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Transcendentalism says we can only gain knowledge through our senses

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False

105
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Emerson’s NATURE is the supreme example of transcendentalism Art

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False

106
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Dickinson’s poems greatly influenced transcendentalism

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False

107
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Did James Russell Lowell write twice told tales

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No

108
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Pacific weekly

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Non existence

109
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Did NC secede in 1860

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No

110
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When was snowbound written

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1866

111
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Where did Emerson go to school

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Harvard

112
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Life of Emerson

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Gave up ministry, wife died a year later
Went to Europe
Came back and remarried

113
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When did Emerson write NATURE

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1836

114
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Emerson

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Pantheism
Oversoul in everything, optimistic transcendentalism
Hinduism

115
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Describe emerson’s message

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Exhilarating to his own generation and the next

116
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Most influential in shaping literature

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Emerson

117
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Works

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Self reliance
Friendship
Concord hymn
Snow storm

118
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Sayings of Emerson

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Trust thyself
Transparent eyeball 
A man is nonconformist
One is sincere, two are hypocritical
Sky is the daily bread of the eye
Hitch your wagon to a star
Shot heard round the world
119
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Difference between Emerson and thoreau

A

Emerson - philosopher

Thoreau - disciple who put ideas to test

120
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Thoreau’s life

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Harvard grad
Odd jobs and wrote for the transcendentalism publication called the dial
Educated by nature, lived at walden ponder fused to pay taxes
Influenced ghandi and MLKJ
Passive resistance when government is wrong

121
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What did Thoreau write

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Walden

civil disobedience

122
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When was walden written

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1854

123
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Thoreau sayings

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Learn from the woods 
Not die and discover not lied
Simplicity
Railroad rides us
Walking to different drums
Money not needed for soul
124
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Hawthorne’s life

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Bowdoin college
1825-1837 silent period perfected writing skills
Married 1841

125
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When was the scarlet letter

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1850

126
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Themes of Hawthorne

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Human heart and evil against transcendentalism

127
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Works of Hawthorne

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Notebooks and other writings

Scarlet letters

128
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Sayings of Hawthorne

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Description

129
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Melville’s life

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Education from ocean
No other writer had as much worldly knowledge
Five novels, progressively more philosophical
Barely able to support himself
Died 40 years after Moby dick, virtually unknown
Against transcendentalists

130
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What did Melville write

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Moby dick
Shiloh
Maldives shark

131
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Quote from Melville

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Wicked book, spotless as lamb

132
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Height of longfellow’s career

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America’s most popular poet

133
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Who were the fireside poets

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Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes, Whittier

134
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Was longfellow’s poetry weird

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No

135
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What did Whittier do when he got out from college

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Did not write novels

136
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What does Holmes compare the nautilus’s freedom to

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The soul’s freedom

137
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What did Longfellow say

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Life is real, grave not the goal

Leave behind footsteps of time

138
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Holmes said

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God of storms, lighting and gale

139
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Lowell said

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Zekle dogwood blushing

140
Q

Dickinson

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Centuries feel shorter than day

141
Q

And leave his broke play things on the floor

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Iambic pentameter

142
Q

Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary

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Trochaic

143
Q

Oh he flies through the air with the greatest of ease

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Anapestic

144
Q

This is the forest primeval the murmuring pines and the hemlocks

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Dactylic

145
Q

Anapestic

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Short short long

146
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Dactylic

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Long short short

147
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3 main ideas of transcendentalism

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Optimism, nature is spiritual, look within for spiritual

148
Q

Emerson’s snow

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Craftsman

149
Q

Wit tiers snow

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Makes familiar things different

150
Q

Three interpretations of Moby Dick

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Mysteries of universe, purity, death, neutrality

151
Q

Nature is what

A

Italian sonnet

152
Q

Arrow and song

A

Enduring, stories,

153
Q

Apostrophe

A

Direct address

154
Q

Steps to analyze poem

A 
Read twice
Read aloud
First impressions
Meaning of words and theme
Title
Parts
As a whole
Draw together
Main idea
155
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Parts of poem

A 
Tone,structure
Sound
Rhythm
Language
Denotative and connotative
Imagery
Similes, metaphors, personifications
Symbolism
Analogies conceits
156
Q

Psalm of life

A

Do something

157
Q

Nature poem

A

Mother takes child to bed puts toys away promising new better ones, nature same way

158
Q

Tide rises and falls

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Tide is constant, life is short, traveler does not return

159
Q

Power in my hand

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Struggle against self with allusion to David and Goliath

160
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The leather stocking tales

A

James fenimore cooper

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