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romanticism

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refers to a moment in art literature and music during the 19th century

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5 I’s

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Imagination 
intuition
idealism
inspiration
individuality
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Imagination

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emphasized over reason, felt science destroyed truth, backlash against age of reason

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intuition

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feelings and instincts over reason, emotions very important

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idealism

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the concept that we can make the world a better place

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inspiration

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inspired creator rather than technical master

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individuality

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during this time women’s rights were coming to the fore front

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romantic hero

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young, innocent, intuitive, close to nature, uneasy with women

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transcendentalists

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write about nature, believe god was in nature

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Gothic movement

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saw human nature as dark and pessimistic

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similarities between transcendentalists and Gothic movement

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valued intuition over reason, found facts were found beyond, looked for symbols in events, emphasized bizarre events and settings

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ethos

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appeals to ethnics

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logos

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appeals to logic

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pathos

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appeals to emotions

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modern era background

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wwi
roaring 20's
womens rights
great migration
pop culture
great depression
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metaphysical poem

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uses far fetched or unusual similes or metaphors to connect with everyday concrete ideas

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syllogism

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logical argument (logos) ex: cease the day

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Example of an allusion in “to his coy mistress”

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The flood, Conversion of the Jews

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What is the tone of the speaker in to the virgins, to make much of time

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abrasive, arrogant, pushy,

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there are three mythological allusions in Miniver Chevey. What are they and why does robingson use them?

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Thebes, Camelot, Priam’s Neighbors

They are all tragedies so it points out just how much he wants to live in a different age

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what is an example of an oxymoron in TYger

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could frame thy fearful symmetry

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example of an allusion in Tyger

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on what wings dare he aspire? icarus

what the hand dare seize the fire? prometheus

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Green light in Gatsby

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american dream, gatsbys hope

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weather in gatsby

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its raining before gatsby and daisy meet and sunny once they see each other

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byronic hero

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larger than life character, flawed and rebellious, hypersensitive loner, obsessively on a quest
common traits-exhibit excessive moodiness, operates largely within his own set of rules, troubled and mysterious past, exhibits self destructive traits and behaviors

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pink suit in gatsby

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ironic because he’s trying to blend in but hes wearing a bright suit

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time in gatsby

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nicks birthday passes and ends a decade of happiness

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old money vs new money in gatsby

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the wife invites gatsby to the party but husband does not, irish good bye, snoobish when not at parties

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20s influence in gatsby

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how daisy cant do men things and tom restricts her, partying and alcohol bc of roaring 20s

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narative style of catcher

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first person stream of conscientiousness

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bildungsroman

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is a novel that traces the psychological and moral development and maturation of the main character or characters, coming of age story

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plot of bildungsroman

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  1. emotional loss of youth
  2. youth leaves home a journey
  3. encounters many conflicts
  4. climax- youth learns and matures
  5. young adult accepts and values of society, society accepts him
  6. adult returns home with new knowledge
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poem from catcher

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its about sex but holden thinks its about saving the children from falling off the cliff,

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why is catcher named after the poem

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bc it shows holdens innocence, hes the catcher but can’t be because who going to catch him

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baseball mitt in catcher

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it symbolizes his love for allie/how much he holds on to him

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MacBeth background

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blend of fact and fiction, lady macbeeth made up, scotland- setting; 11th century a tribute to king james, banquo-character in pay ancestor of king james, curse of macbeth

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paradox

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a seemingly absurd or self contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true

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what is ironic about duncan describing macbeths castle

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he says its really nice but its the place of his death

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symbols in macbeth owls call

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supposed to predict death

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symbols in macbeth bell man

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bells were rang outside a prisoners cell that was about to die

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symbolism in macbeth dagger

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sees it during his soliloquy and it is what he is going to kill duncan with

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symbolism in macbeth sleep

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macbeth killed sleep, he murdered the king

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Hands in macbeth

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they are covered in duncans blood, macbeths hands are stained with murder while lady macbeths are only stained with blood

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owls kills falcon, ponies eat each other

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symbolizes disruption in the chain of being

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Theme of Macbeth

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destruction wrought when ambition goes unchecked by moral constraints

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tragic hero

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a tragic flaw that causes the downfall of a hero.
excessive pride and disrespect for the natural order of things.
The reversal of fate that the hero experiences.
a moment in time when hero makes an important discovery in the story.
a punishment that the protagonist cannot avoid, usually occurring as a result of his hubris.
feelings of pity and fear felt by the audience, for the inevitable downfall of the protagonist.

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metafiction

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fiction that deals with the writing of fiction or its conversions

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style of tttc

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story telling, stream of conscientiousness

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how to tell a true war story

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no point or a point 20 years later, it never seems to end, never moral, cannot be believed, never about war, does not uplift

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theme of DOAS

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American dream, he believes whole heartily in the fact that a good professional well liked man with get the goal

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How does DOAS handle the american dream?

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willy tries too hard and fails because he tried to do it the wrong way, and when they were close he cheated and failed biff, and gave up his job

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style of THe Road

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he doesnt uses grammatical items

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carrying the fire in the road

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keep hoping

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the coast in the road

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its their goal, the end, as far as they can go

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monomyth

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hero’s journey

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steps of a monomyth

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1 ordinary world
2 the call to adventure
3 refusal of the call
4 meeting with the mentor
5 crossing the threshold
6 test, allies and enemies
7 approach of the inmost cave
8 the ordeal near death experience
9 the reward
10 the road back
11 resurrection
12 return with the elixir
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the arrangement of words and phrases in a sentence

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syntax

58
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exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally

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hyperbole

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a love poem or song welcoming or lamenting the arrival of dawn, as dawn will separate the lovers

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aubade

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in simple words, it is a difference between the appearance and the reality

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irony

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the recurrence of similar sounds, especially consonants, in close proximity

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consonance

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the explicit or direct meaning or set of meanings of a word or expression

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denotation

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to use figuartive language to represent objects, actions and ideas in such a way that it appeas to our physical senses

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imagery

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unit of measure that usually contains one stressed syllable and at least one unstressed syllable

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foot

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a literary device is when a speaker breaks off from addressing one party and instead addresses a third party

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apostrophe

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a figure of speech in which a thing or concept is called not by its own name but rather by the name of something associated in meaning with the thing or concept

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metonymy

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a short poem of song like quality

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lyric poem

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the repetition of the sound of a vowel in non-rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible

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assonance

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poetic form names after the fourteenth century italian poet Petrarch featuring the rhyme scheme ABBAABBA CDECDE

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ITALIAN SONNET

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poetry that is irregular in rhythm nad in rhyme, often deliberately for burlesque or comic effect

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doggerel

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the associated or suggested meaning of a word

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connotation

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an expressing designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly

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allusion

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style of speaking or writing determined by the choice of words by a speaker or a writer

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diction

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a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one

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allegory

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a unit of rhythm in poetry, the pattern of beats

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meter

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a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vise versa

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synecdoche

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poetic form with the rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

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Shakespearean sonnet

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theme in gatsby living in the past

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wishes he could go back to when he and daisy knew each other when they were young

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theme in gatsby american dream

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gatsby getting the chance to be well off, rags to riches, lottery type story, dan could have introduced him to people

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great chain of being

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god- angels- demons- stars- moons- kings- princes-

nobles- men- wild animals- domestic animals- trees- other plants- precious stones- precious metals- other minerals

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stream of conscientiousness

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first person, lack of conventional sentence structure or grammar, interior monologue

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anti-hero

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conflict characters engulfed by indecision, lacks classic hero traits

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traits of a modern story

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understatement, irony, stream of conscientiousness, anti-hero, everyday setting, themes of instability and loss, plots without clear climax or resolution

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soldier’s home

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lost generation-lack of purpose,

85
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why was the main character of soldiers home not at home?

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bc he felt they felt they needed to provide him a home, also everyone knew his story and it gave him the creeps

86
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what metaphor is used to describe emily in the beginning?

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she is a fallen monument

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what is the rose for emily

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the room, bc its rose colored and special to her

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sorrowful woman

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focuses on the woman with post pardum depression, the husband takes over the role of dad and mom for the child

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yellow wall paper

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she lives in the attic, the wall paper is up there, the woman walks behind the wall paper she believes it is her, and at the end she escapes, the pattern is the husband holding her in and the lady is her

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feminist notes for short stories

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wifehood and motherhood were women’s most significant jobs, women have always been looked at as inferior to men, weaker less intellectual and evil temptations,

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why is it appropriate that the children discover The most handsome drowned man in the world

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bc children are innocent and imaginative, they accept people

92
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how does esteban’s presence change the relationships between men and women

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women want to nerture him while the men want to sed him away

93
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in what ways does the community become estebans village

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they build higher and larger door ways and buildings, they decorate the fronts of their houses

94
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when i heard the learn’d astronomer

how does the speaker feel about science

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he hates it bc he become tired and sick

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when i heard the learn’d astronomer

was walt whitman a transcendentalist

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yes, he just wanted to go outside and look at the starts and science behind

96
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how does ‘the devil and tom walker’ fit in romanticism

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it has gothic under tones, the trees symbolize the dead and dying, tom follows his intuition instead of what his wife says, tom is a romantic hero bc he is uneasy with his wife,

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emerson self reliance

how is trust a part of self reliance

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we must trust in others that they wont mess up or plan

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emerson self reliance

what does he want everyone to realize about themselves

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they should be themself, if god had not done his work wed all be cowards

99
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Thoreau issues that led him into the woods

who owned the woods

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wanted to live deliberately and he felt rejected from society; emerson

100
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Bells diction what types of bells 1,2,3,4,

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1-silver bells, twinkle, merriment, that so musically
2-wedding bells, mellow, golden bells, world of happiness, harmony, rapture, voluminous,
3-brazen bells, alarum bells, terror, out of tune, palpitating, turbulency
4-iron bells, melancholy, monotone, alone, ghouls

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o captain my captain

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bells, celebrating, the captains dead, inspired by abe lincoln

102
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personal narrative

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written in first person about something in the narrators life, limited to one event

103
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memoir

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an account of a real persons life, reflects on life, how the individual remembers his life,

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personal essay

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combine person narrative and memoir

105
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three f’s of resume’ writing

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function, form, eFfectiveness

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