English Authors Exam Review Flashcards
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Iroquois Tribe
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- They passed down their stories by word of mouth
- They used folk tails: stories of generation to generation.
- They respect nature
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Anne Bradstreet
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– first American poet
- Born in Britain
- married at 16
- moved to America at 18
- had 8 babies
- used archaic launguage
- puratinism
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Rev Jonathan Edwards
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- gave a crazy speech about hell
- used loaded language
- Went to Yale University
- wrote 1,200 sermons
- was apart of the great awakening
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Washington Irving
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- Best known for “Rip Wan Wrinkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hallow”
- Had a 17yr trip to Europe
- First poet to make a living off his work
- used his pen name till he was 40
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- born in Boston
- Father was a Unitarian Minister
- His wife died and he questioned Christianity
- Champion of Individualism - we are individuals.
- Mentor of Henry David Thoreau
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Walt Whitman
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- born in New York
- saw America as a big poem
- Most famous for leaves of Grass
- Wrote about what some considered “common’ or “vulgar”
- long poems
- most successful poet in America
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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
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- lived and stayed in Amherst M.A.
- Wealthy Fam
- Puritan Father (she was torn)
- very personal poems
- Wrote 1775 poems
Published by her sister Vinne after the death - Quatains: 9 4 kine stanzas)
- Invertive punctuations & sentence structure such as “dashes”
- irregular capitalization
- unconventional figure language
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Voltaire
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- French writer
- wrote Candid
- His name is a “ noun de plume”
- a pen name - Founder of Modern Historian science
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Patrick Henry
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- born in Virginia (rich)
- Lawyer at 24
- Organized Virginia militia
- Writing influenced / part of important U.S. documents
- He was suspicious of gov
- give me liberty or give me death
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Phillis Wheatley
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- First Black Poet
- Kidnapped from West Africa at age 7
- Sold to a family in Boston
- Learned English in 16 months
- Later learned Latin & Greek
- Freed in 1778
- Died in obscurity at 31
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Thomas Jefferson
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- Born in Virginia ( rich)
- Founding Father
- Started Policies at age 26
- Did alot of things:
- Minister of France
- First secretary of state
- Second vice pres.
- Third pres. - Early writing denounced slavery and trade included
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Henry David Thoreau
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- Born & died in Concord, MA
- Rejected wealth (only enough money to live)
- Not successful in his life
- Abolitionist (believed in civil disobedience)
- Anarchist
- didn’t want to pay taxes - Father of American Nature writing
- ## he stayed in the woods for a bit
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Edgar Allen Poe
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- The Gothic guy
- Master at Gothic Tradition
- Very unstable life
- life ling behavior of self-sabotage
- Looked for the “true nature” of people in extreme situations
- Famous literary critic
- Father of modern detective novel
- inspired Doyle
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Jane Austen
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- she wrote six novels that inspired “pride and prejidous”
- critiques society
- marriage and stuff like that
-romantic wrtter
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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- wrote: “ Faust”
- German
- also romantic writer
- super german writer
