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John Smith

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Puritanism

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From city to country

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Romanticism

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Slave narratives

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Thomas Jefferson

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Nature is a big factor

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Poor Richards almanac

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Religion over everything

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First American Poet

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Puritanism

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Reason over religion

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Enlightenment

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Fireside poets

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James Fenimore Cooper

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Romanticism

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Captivity narrative

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Puritanism

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Anne Bradstreet

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Puritanism

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Sinners in the hands of an angry God

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Enlightenment

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Masque of the red death

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Romanticism

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The Raven

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Romanticism

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William Bradford

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Noble savage

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Edgar Allan Poe

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Romanticism

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Mary Rowlandson

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Politically motivated

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Washington Irving

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Romanticism

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True American hero

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Romanticism

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Equiano

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Enlightenment

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ALL Nonfiction

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Puritanism

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The Devil and Tom Walker

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Romanticism

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Robert Frost

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Romanticism

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Rip van Winkle

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Romanticism

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Benjamin Franklin

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Enlightenment

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Gothic writers

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Romanticism

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Jonathan Edwards

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Enlightenment

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Feelings over reason

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Romanticism

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  • a stock comedic character, usually an old man wearing baggy pants and chasing young girls
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Pantaloon

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  • the use of harsh words to derail someone
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Sarcasm

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  • the way an author chooses to use words phrases and sentences to tell a story
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Style

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  • the central idea of a story
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Theme

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  • words spoken by an actor/actress so that they are heard by the audience but not other characters
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Aside

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  • lines in a play where a character reveals his/her thoughts to the audience; they are long speeches and are alone on stage
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Soliloquy

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  • poetry written in lines
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Verse

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  • written in paragraphs
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Prose

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  • two successive rhyming lines of poetry
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Couplet

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  • an expression that achieves humor by using two meanings for the same word or two similar sounding words
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Pun

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  • character that represents one idea or emotion
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Stock character

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  • I know something you don’t know
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Dramatic irony

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  • a reference to another work, religion, piece of art, part of history
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Allusion

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  • what you thought would happen doesn’t happen
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Situational irony

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  • misuse of a longer word for effect
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Malapropism

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  • what is said is not actually what is meant
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Verbal irony

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Give an example of the theme love

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Characters are obsessed with obtaining it, but they all define it differently

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Give an example of the theme love and money

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Petruchio wants money for marrying Kat and everyone tries to offer Baptista money in return for Bianca

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Give an example of the theme power and language

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Petruchio tames Kat with his words. He has power over her through his words

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Give an example of the theme marriage

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The definition of a good marriage is brought into question through the relationships of many characters

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Give an example of the theme appearance vs. reality

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Trainio pretends to be Lucentio

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