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Mid Flashcards

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Dear John Wayne

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Louise Eldrich

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Upon the burning of my house

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Anne Bradstreet
Puritanism
Possessions are meaningless/ leave it to God

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To my dear and loving husband

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Anne Bradstreet
Good wife / one of the only women publish at this time because it was sexist and spread propaganda.

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Before the birth of one of her children

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And Bradstreet
Childbirth and all anxiety a woman has

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Captivity narrative of Mary Rowlinson

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Mary Rowlandson
Taken from home by natives
Painted Native Americans as savages
Apron equals old life and family

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Scarlet letter

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Huswifery

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Edward Taylor
Idea that God is everything and holy
Humanities relationship with God

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The wonders of the invisible world

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Cotton Mather
Salem witch trials showed how unfair and skewed everything was

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Sitters in the hands of an angry God

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Jonathan Edwards
Great awakening
Sermon to scare people back to religion

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Declaration of independence

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Written by Jefferson, edited by Franklin

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Radical deism

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Emerged during enlightenment
God created the universe, then lifted to be
Most of the founding fathers were deist

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Common sense

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Thomas Paine

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Poor Richards almanac

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Ben Franklin’s diary
Aphorism

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Phillis Wheatley

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Slavery propaganda
Slave who wrote about her experience as a slave, but made it seem like it was not bad

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Billy Bud

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Herman Melville
Billy Bud=perfect man
Impressment/ Napoleonic wars
Claggart=natural depravity

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Young Goodman Brown

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Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Gothic
Man gets lost in the woods dreams his puritanfriends are evil never trusted anyone again
Wife’s name is Faith
Romanticism

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The minister’s black veil

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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Minister begins to wear a black veil. The town shuns him. Fear of the unknown.
Sinning.
Romanticism

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Tell tale heart

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Edgar Allan Poe
Man is creeped out of some eye . Murders the man. Confesses to killing him due to guilt.
Seven nights

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The Black Cat

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Edgar Allan Poe
Man loved animals, but became alcoholic .
Started abusing his wife and animals.
Murdered the wife gets caught because the cat meow.

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The mask of the red death

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Edgar Allan Poe
He wrote this as he watched his wife die of tuberculosis .
King who likes himself up with other rich people because there’s a disease spreading. Until the disease gets them.
The clock

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The fall of the house usher

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Edgar Allan Poe
Guy visited his childhood friend. Roderick and his twin sister fall ill with family illness. His sister dies they bury her, bury her alive. The sister attacks usher, who collapses with the house. Narrator barely escapes. Gothic horror.

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Legend of sleepy hollow

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Washington Irving
Headless Horseman
After revolutionary war

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Devil and Tom Walker

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Washington Irving
Tom makes a deal with the devil for money. He ultimately regrets it
Apron full of body parts
Tom becomes religious

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Rip van Winkle

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Washington Irving
Man fall asleep in mountain
Revolutionary war after

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Longfellow

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Fireside poet
Words were easy to understand, and
Children’s hour

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Henry David Thoreau

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Walden Pond
Lived in the woods to get closer to nature
Opposed materialism

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Humans should appreciate nature’s beauty more
Write nature

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Oh, Captain, my captain

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Walt Whitman [gay]
Written after Lincoln died after the Civil War

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Chickamauga

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Ambrose beers
Civil War
Deaf kid

30
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And occurrence at owl Creek Ridge

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Ambrose Bierce
Southern spy hanged
Hallucinates his running away
Civil War

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Idiom

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An expression with a meaning, different from the literal meaning of the words

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Oxymoron

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When contradictory terms appear in conjunction

33
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Euphemism

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Polite, word or phrase used in place of one that might be too direct, unpleasant or embarrassing

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Irony

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The opposite of what you expect to happen

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