Am ren short story test Flashcards

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Who was WashingtonIrving

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First American to earn an international rep in literature

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2
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When was the American Renaissance

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1830s-1850s

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3
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who wrote Moby-Dick

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Herman Melville

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4
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who wrote Benito Cereno

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Herman Melville

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5
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who wrote The Scarlet Letter

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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who wrote The House of the Seven Gables

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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who wrote The Blithedale Romance

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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who wrote Twice-Told Tales

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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9
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who wrote “The Purloined Letter”

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Edgar Allan Poe

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10
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who wrote “The Fall of the House of Usher”

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Edgar Allan Poe

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11
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who wrote “Nature”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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who wrote “Self- Reliance”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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who wrote “The Over-Soul”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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14
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who wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

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Harriet Jacobs

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15
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who wrote Narrative …; My Bondage
and My Freedom

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Frederick Douglass

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16
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who wrote Walden

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Henry David Thoreau

17
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what is romanticism?

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Turning away from enlightenment. Skeptics of rationalism and don’t think everything in life is logical. No romantic stories care about being realistic.

18
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what is transcendentalism?

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Emphasized the individual and his/her
experiences with the natural world
* Transcending physical boundaries
* Rejected individuals’ being inherently corrupt, evil, lazy
* Embraced their being trusted and putting themselves on path to enlightenment and freedom

19
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leaders of transcendentalism

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Includes Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller

20
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what is the oversoul?

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Shared universal soul
* You also have your own soul
* Over-Soul is nebulous, even in its relationship to the individual soul
* The soul (and the spiritual experience) transcends the physical world

21
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what is intersubjectivity

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From a first-person point of view,
intersubjectivity comes in when we undergo acts of empathy. Intersubjective experience is
empathic experience; it occurs in the course of our conscious attribution of intentional acts to other subjects, in the course of which we put ourselves into the other one’s shoes.