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1
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The devil and tom walker

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Washington Irving

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The leather stocking tales

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James fenimore cooper

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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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The fall of the house of usher

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Edgar Allan Poe

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The bells

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Edgar Allan Poe

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To Helen

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Edgar Allan Poe

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8
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Americans went from ______ to _____

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Colonialism to nationalism

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Farmers became

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Manufacturers

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___ replaced _____

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Romanticism replaced classicism

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Romanticism valued

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Intuition
Humanitarian reform
Mysterious

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Irving’s two most famous stories are

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Adaptations of German folk tales

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Did history of New York his first substantial writing make him famous

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No

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14
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Did Irving use legends and why

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Yes to allow readers to connect with the past

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15
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Irving 1832

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Returned to US as foremost writer

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Irving and John Adams

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None

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17
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Rip van winkle

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Most popular story

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18
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About hearsay

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Combine supernatural and natural elements

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19
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Setting for story in textbook Irving

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Massachusetts 1727

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20
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Tom became

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A wealthy money-lender in Boston

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21
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What did tom try to do and how

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Trick the devil by going to church, carrying a Bible, burying horse upside down

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22
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How did the devil find tom

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Unprepared

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23
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What happened to tom’s wealth

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Reduced to cinders, shavings skeletons, ashes

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What did cooper write

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30 novels, naval history, volumes of social comments

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25
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What formed bumpo’s morality

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Wilderness

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What does bumpo’s morality represent

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Cooper’s hope for a moral renewal in America

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America’s most cherished myth

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Wilderness brings new youth

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28
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How does deerslayer escape

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Drifted with the wind, escaped from the Hurons

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29
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Does the bird land

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No

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30
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What does Bryant say about the end of the bird’s flight

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Rest during the summer

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31
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Lesson of waterfowl

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God guided the bird, and would guide the author

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About Poe

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

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33
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First spoken words of usher

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I shall perish, I must perish in this deplorable folly

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34
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When does usher confess and to what

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After hearing sounds during a story

Burying Madeline Alive

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35
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What does Madeline do

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Kills her brother

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36
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Poe’s prototype for detectives was

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A Frenchman named Auguste dupin

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37
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How was dupin portrayed

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Taking many clues and arriving at culprit

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38
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When and where did surrealism first appear

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French literature WWI

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39
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Surrealist definition of reality

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Irrational, fantastic, bizarre

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40
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Did America expand in 1840-1860

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Yes

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41
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Did the population double between 1830-1870

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Yes

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42
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Did America rely on anything besides science

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Yes

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43
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What did industrialization bring

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Terrible working conditions

Abandonment of American basic values

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44
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How many utopian communities between 1820-1850

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At least 58

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45
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Reforms

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Public education
Abolishing slavery
Voting for women

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46
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Did the Lyceum system impact America

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Yes

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47
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Growing materialism

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Spread

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48
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What was the nickname of literary time

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American Renaissance

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49
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What did transcendentalists believe

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Universal soul

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50
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Strongest transcendentalist

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Emerson

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51
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Brahmins

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Not Emerson, Thoreau, Dickinson

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52
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Who drew from Quakerism

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John green leaf Whittier

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53
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Dickinson transcendentalist?

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No

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54
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What did Hawthorne and Melville say

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Sin and evil refute transcendentalist optimism

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55
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Literature from this time shows

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Human possibility

Human limitation

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56
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Wrote 45 hymns and hundreds of poems to abolish slavery

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John Whittier

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57
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Most beloved poet

Common themes in culture

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Henry Longfellow

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58
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Trained doctors wrote pleasure poetry

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Oliver Holmes

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59
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Wrote 1800 poems on ordinary topics, 7 published

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Emily Dickinson

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60
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Traveled extensively, foreign settings, philosophical

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Melville

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61
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first to use Yankee dialect
Hosea big low
Lost family

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Lowell

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62
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Thoreau

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Educated by nature

Lived by pond in a little house

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Emerson

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Most influential in shaping American literature

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64
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12 years practicing and perfecting writing

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Hawthorne

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65
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Shiloh

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Melville

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66
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Never saw a moor

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Dickinson

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67
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Moby dick

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Melville

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Big low papers

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Lowell

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Court in

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Old Ironsides

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Could not stop for death

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Civil disobedience

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Chambered nautilus

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Arrow and song

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Longfellow

75
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Whittier

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Psalm of life

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Longfellow

77
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Notebook and other writings

78
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Evangeline

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Longfellow

79
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Walden

80
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Concord hymn

81
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Nature

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Nature sonnet

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Longfellow

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Oh he flies through the air with the greatest of ease

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Once upon a midnight dreary while I wandered weak and weary

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This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlock

86
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And leave his broken playthings on the floor

87
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Trust thyself, every heart vibrates to that iron string

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Ugliness is honest and agreeable

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Feels centuries, shorter than the day

90
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Gods of storms, lightning and gale

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Simplicity

92
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Departing, footprints on sands of time

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Longfellow

93
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Pity pat, pity speckle

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Wicked book, spotless as lamb

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No cloud above, universe of sky and snow

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Apostrophe

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Addresses specific audience or object

97
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English sonnet

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Three stanzas of four lines, the couplet

98
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Scansion

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Determining number of poetic feet

99
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Starting poem

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Read twice, read aloud, write down first impressions
Meaning theme title
Parts

100
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Parts of a poem

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Tone, structure, sound, rhythm, language

101
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Thanatopsis

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Afraid of death, be in nature

More dead than alive on earth

102
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Emerson and Whittier snow

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Beautiful but inconvenient

103
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Interpretations of Moby dick

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Neutrality - whale good or bad

Evil - pursuit kills Arab

104
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Differences between ahab and Santiago

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Evil and respect of nature

Crazily kill fish, methodical love fish

105
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Ahab transcendentalism

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Word is against him

106
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Structure of poem nature

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Italian sonnet

Stanza provides metaphor of mother, then nature as mother

107
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Tide rises, tide falls

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Traveler disapproves

108
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Psalm of life and chambered nautilus

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Progression and doing something

Encourage action

109
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Never saw a moor

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Has not seen heaven, believes in it

110
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Postwar decades did what after the war

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Continued trends already established

111
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How did the post war nation feel about reforms and Utopias

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Didn’t care

112
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Walt Whitman

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speaker for America
Free verse
Forceful personal voice
Unpopular subjects - war
Bridge between spiritual romantic and graphic realism
Sensory images
113
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What did Whitman write

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Leaves of grass
 Song of myself
I hear America singing
When I heard the learned astronomer
Beat beat drums
Reconciliation
114
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African American slaves

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Spirituals
Go down Moses
Swing low sweet chariot
Longing for freedom, gave signals

115
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Where did realism have its origin

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Not Germany

116
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For most component of realism

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H….

Not Walt Whitman

117
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Greatest author to realize realism

118
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Souls of black folks 1855

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Not Douglass

119
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New England local color writing stressed

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Not expansionist spirit

120
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Frederick Douglass

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Self-educated
Escaped from slavery
Became writer and speaker for abolitionists
North Star newspaper

121
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What did Douglass write

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Bondage and freedom

What to slave is fourth of July

122
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Abe Lincoln

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Great common man

Wrote prose balanced, precise, controlled, logical

123
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What did Lincoln write

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Second inaugural address

124
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About second inaugural address

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War, slavery, God’s role, reconciliation

Inclusive language, theological reasoning, parallel phrases

125
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Robert e Lee

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General’s General
Brilliant military man
Asked by Lincoln to lead Union, refused
Admired by men

126
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What did Lee write

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Letter to son

127
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About letter to son

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Didn’t want war, would fight if Virginia invaded to defend it, became involved and led confederate armies

128
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Ti rod

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Newspaper shut down in war
Wrote important poems after war
Laureate of confederacy
Southern regional writer
Ode to confederate dead
129
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About ode to confederate dead

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Living honored dead at holy ground where valiant soldiers had been buried

130
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Lanier

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University man

Loved music and poetry and had many unpublished poems

131
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Song of chattahoochee

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Lanier
River running toward ocean
Waters and runs mills
Received messages to stop and obstacles from the plants and trees and gems
Duty calls to water
Alliteration, makes sound of River, refrain

132
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Twain

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Previous jobs
Used experiences
Focused on humor
Born and died with Haley’s comet

133
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Twain’s previous jobs

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Printer’s apprentice
River boat pilot
Prospector

134
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When was huck Finn written

135
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Bret Harte

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Western stereotypes in overland monthly magazine

136
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Outcasts of poker flat

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Four outcasts headed to sandy bar
John oak hurst - gambler
Mother ship ton - witch
Duchess - prostitute
Uncle Billy - drunkard and thief
Tom simson the innocent and his fiancé piney woods (teenager) meet them and get caught in a snow storm
Simson goes to poker flat for help, women die in each other's arms
Ship ton sacrifices her food
Uncle Billy steals stuff
Oak hurst suicide
137
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Bierce

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Union army war hero
Journalist in ÇÅ
Western regional writer
War wasteful and futile
Terse writing style - brief and vivid
138
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Bierce wrote

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Occurrence at owl bridge
Southern civilian hung for buying railway crossing
Think he escapes, only hallucination
Limp body swaying gently
Paradoxical
139
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Dubois

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Fisk and Harvard
Ph.D.
Taught languages
Strong advocate for African Americans' rights
Removed veil between whites and blacks
140
Q

Song of the smoke

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Dubois
Change in relationships between race
Industrialization, hatred, pride, author himself with his efforts to equality

141
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Ode

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Public poem to honor what a group of people had done

Serious dignified, lofty language

142
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Refrain

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Phrase or line repeated to produce a certain effect or implant an idea

143
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Thanatopsis

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William Cullen Bryant

144
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Song of myself

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All about himself

145
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I hear America singing

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All kinds of jobs sing America’s songs

146
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When I heard the learned astronomer

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He heard the science and got bored

147
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Beat beat

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War is urgent and waits for no one

148
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Reconciliation

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He kisses the enemy he killed

149
Q

Spirituals

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Moving, freedom, filled with emotion

150
Q

What is the Fourth of July

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I feel inadequate
Your holiday 
Far from the plantations
Believes in hope for America, nation is young
You are free so why can't we be free your father's were wise 
Why me
Your law says wear are people too
Worst day of the year
Worst atrocity 
Ethos - my experience
Get right church
Hypocrisy
Liberty
Optimistic ending
William Lloyd garrison's hymn
151
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Outline 4th of July

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Introduction
Narrative/statement of fact
Arguments and counter arguments
Conclusion

152
Q

About ideas about huck Finn

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Hemingway - all literature comes from it, nothing rivals
Country boy
First person Pov
Race relations
Huck’s irreverence and rebellion brought critics
Racist

153
Q

Contrast

A

Different situations
Voting and speed limits
Voting has no damage

154
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Reciprocity

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Justice and fairness, mutual obligations

No investments in early education, kids won’t help retire parents

155
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Consistency

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Good intellectual position not contradictory

Opposed to testing own pets, why buy animal tested products

156
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Cause and effect

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One event leads to another

Increases mileage requirement, cars will make car performance better without hurting environment

157
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Comparison and analogy

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Drawing parallels
Modern teachers who don’t like comic books
1800s didn’t like novels

158
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Rhetorical question

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No answer
Isn’t everything fair in love and war
Don’t all parents want what’s best

159
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Sensory language

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Appeals to language, specially sight

Imagine subway with no litter

160
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Emotional appeal

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Sense of love, duty, fear, greed, pride

Less money to space, but known as generation that stopped space because money

161
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Attack

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Why disagreements unsound

Oppose women shouldn’t break through believe women shouldn’t work

162
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Humor

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End to social prejudice when high school cafeterias don’t have cliques

163
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Formal language

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Author’s authority by scholarly or sophisticated language

Post hoc ergo prompter hoc logical fallacy, correlation

164
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Informal language

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Approachable

Good ol down home cooking

165
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Inclusive exclusive language

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Identify or separate from

Work hard, get dreams, some think take advantage

166
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Statistics

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Information from scientific studies

Study of how teachers allocate time, 15%

167
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Authoritative quote

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According to president

A

168
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Anecdote

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Personal story

When I was of high school age

169
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Historical allusion

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Us civil war

170
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Current events and media

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Tightening of security for olympics

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