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A Growing Nation Flashcards

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1750-1800

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Neo-classicism

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Before 1750

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Early American Puritanism

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1800-1870

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Romanticism

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Wrote about their spiritual progress

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Early American/Puritanism

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Reason is the dominating characteristic of both nature and of human nature

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Neo-classicism

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Places central importance upon the emotions and upon the individual

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Romanticism

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Searching their sounds for signs of grace

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Puritan

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Emphasized reason over emotion social over personal and common over individual

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Neo-classicism

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Intuition individual emotion imagination humanitarian

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Romanticism

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Nature wild devil untamed

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Puritan

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Nature a system of rational laws

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Neo-classicism

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Nature source of beauty mystery strangeness

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Romanticism

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Wrote five “leather stocking tales”

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James fenimore cooper

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Set during the French and Indian war 1757

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Last of the Mohicans

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Characteristics of an American hero

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Young. innocent pure. Sense of honor higher than societies honor. Has knowledge of people and life based on deep understanding not on education. Loves nature. Quests for higher truth.

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Americas first action hero

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Hawkeye

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Hawkeys brother

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Uncas

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First American writer to achieve an international reputation

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Washington Irving

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Born in the final year of the revolutionary war

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Washington Irving

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Wrote rip van winkle

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Washington Irving

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Most popular story in the world

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Rip van winkle

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Wrote legend of the sleepy hollow

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Washington Irving

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Where is Irving’s home?

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Sunny side, at tarry town on the Hudson River

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1st American poet to make a living writing poetry

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Henry wads worth Longfellow

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Wrote poetry for a family audience usually on subjects of general appeal; nature home and family religious and moral lessons and patriotism

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Fireside poets

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People apart of the fireside poets

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James Russell Lowell Oliver Wendell Holmes John greenleaf Whittier Henry wads worth Longfellow

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Longfellow is known for

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Paul reveres ride, the courtship of miles standish, the song of Hiawatha, Evangeline

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Hiawathas lover

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Minnehaha

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When was Hiawatha written?

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1855

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Unstressed/stressed

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Iamb

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Stressed/unstressed

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Trochee

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Anapest

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Unstressed unstressed stressed

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Stressed unstressed unstressed

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Dactyl

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Father of American poetry

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William Cullen Bryant

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The first American to produce a body of work that could be matched against the achievement of English poets

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William Cullen Bryant

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Used his position as a journalist to defend defend human rights and personal freedoms

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William Cullen Bryant

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Fought to ensure that industrialization did not obscure Americas democratic values

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William Cullen Bryant

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Wrote thanatopsis

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William Cullen Bryant

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A major work establishing the new romantic movement in American literature

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Thanatopsis

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Presents the poets thoughts on death and it’s links to nature, nature brings joy and comfort to those who love it, death need not be feared or despised

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Thanatopsis

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Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter, closet to the natural speaking voice

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Blank verse

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Creator of the detective story, most important American poet before Walt Whitman, with n. Hawthorne he helped shape the short story

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Edgar Allen Poe

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Setting is bleak and remote, plot involves weird or violent incidents, characters are in psychological and/or physical torment, a supernatural or otherworldly element is often present

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Gothic style

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Poes wife

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Virginia

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He earned 14 dollars for..

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The raven

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Virginia was immortalized in …

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Annabelle lee

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After Virginias death Poe proposed to …

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Helen Whitman

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To Poe tuberculosis was the … Death

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Red

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What school did Poe go to?

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University of Virginia

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