Mid Flashcards
Dear John Wayne
Louise Eldrich
Upon the burning of my house
Anne Bradstreet
Puritanism
Possessions are meaningless/ leave it to God
To my dear and loving husband
Anne Bradstreet
Good wife / one of the only women publish at this time because it was sexist and spread propaganda.
Before the birth of one of her children
And Bradstreet
Childbirth and all anxiety a woman has
Captivity narrative of Mary Rowlinson
Mary Rowlandson
Taken from home by natives
Painted Native Americans as savages
Apron equals old life and family
Scarlet letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Huswifery
Edward Taylor
Idea that God is everything and holy
Humanities relationship with God
The wonders of the invisible world
Cotton Mather
Salem witch trials showed how unfair and skewed everything was
Sitters in the hands of an angry God
Jonathan Edwards
Great awakening
Sermon to scare people back to religion
Declaration of independence
Written by Jefferson, edited by Franklin
Radical deism
Emerged during enlightenment
God created the universe, then lifted to be
Most of the founding fathers were deist
Common sense
Thomas Paine
Poor Richards almanac
Ben Franklin’s diary
Aphorism
Phillis Wheatley
Slavery propaganda
Slave who wrote about her experience as a slave, but made it seem like it was not bad
Billy Bud
Herman Melville
Billy Bud=perfect man
Impressment/ Napoleonic wars
Claggart=natural depravity
Young Goodman Brown
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
The minister’s black veil
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Minister begins to wear a black veil. The town shuns him. Fear of the unknown.
Sinning.
Romanticism
Tell tale heart
Edgar Allan Poe
Man is creeped out of some eye . Murders the man. Confesses to killing him due to guilt.
Seven nights
The Black Cat
Edgar Allan Poe
Man loved animals, but became alcoholic .
Started abusing his wife and animals.
Murdered the wife gets caught because the cat meow.
The mask of the red death
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
The fall of the house usher
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.
Legend of sleepy hollow
Washington Irving
Headless Horseman
After revolutionary war
Devil and Tom Walker
Washington Irving
Tom makes a deal with the devil for money. He ultimately regrets it
Apron full of body parts
Tom becomes religious
Rip van Winkle
Washington Irving
Man fall asleep in mountain
Revolutionary war after
Longfellow
Fireside poet
Words were easy to understand, and
Children’s hour
Henry David Thoreau
Walden Pond
Lived in the woods to get closer to nature
Opposed materialism
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Humans should appreciate nature’s beauty more
Write nature
Oh, Captain, my captain
Walt Whitman [gay]
Written after Lincoln died after the Civil War
Chickamauga
Ambrose beers
Civil War
Deaf kid
And occurrence at owl Creek Ridge
Ambrose Bierce
Southern spy hanged
Hallucinates his running away
Civil War
Idiom
An expression with a meaning, different from the literal meaning of the words
Oxymoron
When contradictory terms appear in conjunction
Euphemism
Polite, word or phrase used in place of one that might be too direct, unpleasant or embarrassing
Irony
The opposite of what you expect to happen
