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Reason over Religion

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Enlightenment

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William Bradford

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Puritanism

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True American Hero

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Romanticism

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Anne Bradstreet

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Puritanism

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The Devil and Tom Walker

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Romanticism

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Gothic Writers

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Romanticism

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Captivity Narratives

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Puritanism

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The Concept of the Noble Savage

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Enlightenment

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Transcendentalism

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John Smith

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Puritanism

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Thomas Jefferson

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Enlightenment

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Henry James

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Realism

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Washington Irving

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Romanticism

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Politically Motivated

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Enlightenment

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First American Poet is writing during this time

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Puritanism

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Religion over Everything

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Puritanism

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All nonfiction works

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Puritanism

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Walden Pond is published

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Transcendentalism

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Benjamin Franklin

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Enlightenment

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Slave Narratives

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Enlightenment

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Anti-Transcendentalism

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Moving from the city to the country?

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Romanticism

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Edgar Allan Poe

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Romanticism

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Idealistic views of life

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Romanticism

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Mary Rowlandson

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Puritanism

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James Fennimore Cooper

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Romanticism

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Author’s Voice is rarely heard?

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Realism

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Feelings Over Reason

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Romanticism

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Nature is indifferent, unforgiving, and unexplainable

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Anti-transcendentalism

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The Masque of the Red Death

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Romanticism

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Based on Philosophies of the Immanel Knat

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Transcendentalism

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Jonathan Edwards

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Enlightenment

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Mark Twain

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Realism

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The five I’s

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Romantic

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Men were believed to be inherently good

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Enlightenment

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Wrote “The Autobiography.”

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Benjamin Franklin

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Author of “Sleepy Hollow”

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Washington Irving

38
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Wrote “Nature”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Wrote “The Raven”

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Edgar Allan Poe

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Wrote “Moby Dick”

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Herman Melville

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invented the 3 part slave narrative

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Equiano

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First American author to reach celebrity status

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Washington Irving

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wrote “SInners in the Hands of an Angry God”

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Jonathan Edwards

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wrote “The Devil and Tom Walker”

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Washington Irving

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wrote “A Narrative of Captivity”

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Mary Rowlandson

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Gotic writer during the Romantic movement

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Edgar Allan Poe

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Wrote “Portrait of a Lady”

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Henry James

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had 17 siblings

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Benjamin Franklin

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The first American poet

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Anne Bradstreet

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wrote “Of Plymouth Plantation”

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William Bradford

51
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Wrote using the single effect

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Edgar Allan Poe

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wrote “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”

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Mark Twain

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wrote “Civil Disobedience”

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Henry David Thoreau

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was jailed over taxes

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Henry David Thoreau

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Wrote “The Scarlet Letter”

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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the repetition of similar sounds, usually consonants, at the beginning of words or accented syllables

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Alliteration

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the repetition of vowel sounds

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Assonance

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mood of feeling created in a piece of writing

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Atmosphere

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the repetition of consonant sounds at the ends of words or accented syllables

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Consonance

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A figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else. Comparing two seemingly unlike things.

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Metaphor

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comparing two or more seemingly unlike things using like or as

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Simile

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writing that ridicules or criticizes individuals, ideas, institutions, social conventions, or other works of art or literature

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Satire

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Poe’s technique where he believed that every character detail and incident in the story should contribute to the overall feel of the story.

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Single Effect

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characters who represent one human emotion or characteristic

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Stock Character

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figure of speech in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics

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Personification

66
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List the five I’s

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Intuition
Inspiration from Nature
Imagination
Innocence
Inner Experience

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