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Frantic; agitated

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Frenetic

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To throw into disorder

A state of disorder

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Disarray

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The wasting away of a body organ or tissue; progressive decline
To waste away

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Atrophy

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To gather bit by bit

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Glean

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Complete or perfect

To bring to a state of perfection

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Consummate

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A type of game bird

A complaint; to grumble or complain

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Grouse

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A fort or stronghold

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Bastion

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Urgency; an emergency or pressing need

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Exigency

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Floating debris

Homeless people

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Flotsam

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Harmony

A state of agreement or treaty

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Concord

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In a reclining position

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Recumbent

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To imprison

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Incarcerate

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Ridiculous, absurd

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Ludicrous

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Sharply or bitterly harsh

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Mordant

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Cowardly; mean-spirited

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Pusillanimous

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A prickly plant

To irritate severely

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Nettle

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A scheme to outwit an opponent

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Strategem

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One who holds a specific office currently

Obligatory, required

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Incumbent

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Of or related to money

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Pecuniary

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Humorous, joking, jolly

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Jocular

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To portray or sketch; to describe in detail

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Delineate

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To set apart as holy; to honor

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Hallow

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Fabrication of the mind

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Figment

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A command or mandate

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Fiat

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Private, secret

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Esoteric

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Sharpness

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Acuity

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To gather and store away

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Garner

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Fruitful; intellectually productive

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Fecund

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To weaken

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Enervate

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Devoid of moral principles

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Depraved

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Earthly; ordinary

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Mundane

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Strong attraction or inclination

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Penchant

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Existing everywhere

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Ubiquitous

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Having wide-spread acceptance

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Reputed

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Conceited, immoderate, excessive

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Overweening

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36
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Reasoning that seems plausible but is unsound

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Sophistry

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Subtle or slight variation (as in color, meaning, quality)

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Nuance

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Costly, magnificent

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Sumptuous

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Shame and disgrace

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Ignominy

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A peculiarity

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Idiosyncrasy

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41
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Involvement in wrongdoing

The state of being an accomplice

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Complicity

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42
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Silly, empty of meaning

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Inane

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43
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One who doubts the existence of God

Skeptical

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Agnostic

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44
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A formal accusation

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Indictment

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45
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The quality of being just; fair or equal treatment

The money value of property above its mortgage

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Equity

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46
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Degraded, wretched

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Abject

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47
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Bitter and prolonged verbal attack; a rant

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Diatribe

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48
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Stopping and beginning again, sporadic

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Intermittent

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Someone or something that is abandoned or neglected, neglectful of duty

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Derelict

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50
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A crude image of a despised person

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Effigy

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51
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Certain; without doubt

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Indubitable

52
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Grotesque imitation to ridicule by imitating in a rude fashion

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Travesty

53
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A watch kept over a person, place, or thing

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Surveillance

54
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New convert; a beginner

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Neophyte

55
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Filled with trees

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Sylvan

56
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Open to discussion; unresolved, to bring up for discussion

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Moot

57
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Keenness in understanding

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Perspicacity

58
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Irritable

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Testy

59
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Complete; absolute

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Plenary

60
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A principal idea; a repeated image

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Motif

61
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What was the transcendentalist movement about?

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People challenged society and they didn’t conform to the social norms

62
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Who were 3 people from the transcendentalist movement?

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Sarah Margaret Fuller

63
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Means “knowledge, understanding”, it is a philosophy which questions what knowledge is and how it can be acquired and the extent to which knowledge pertinent to any given subject or entity can be acquired

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Epistemology

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What years did the transcendentalist movement take place

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1840-1855

65
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What does transcend mean

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To go beyond

66
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What does transcendentalism call us to

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Spiritual greatness

Search for truth which comes from individual intuition and faith rather than reason alone

67
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What are the ideas of transcendentalism

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Self reliance 
Individualism 
Self-knowledge as the purpose of life
Importance of living in the present 
Subjectivity of good and evil
Recognition of the relationship between man and nature
68
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Who is the father of american transcendentalism

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

69
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Where did Ralph Waldo Emerson settle

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Concord, Massachusetts

70
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What was Ralph Waldo Emersons first book called and when was it published

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NATURE in 1836

71
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What did Ralph waldo emerson do with his life

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Lectured

Wrote about social causes and reform, such as abolitionism

72
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What important work did Henry David Thoreau write?

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Civil disobedience

73
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What important work did Sarah Margaret Fuller write and what did it say

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Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Intuition is important as a way to know something
Everyone has male and females characteristics
We shouldnt be limited to our own gender
Self-reliance

74
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When did the Anti-transcendentalism movement happen

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1840-1855

75
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What did anti transcendentalism do

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Criticized the positive and optimistic philosophy of the transcendentalists

76
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What did anti transcendentalists believe

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The universe is confusing and difficult
Nature is dark and hard to harmonize with
Evil and suffering cannot be negated by the power of positive thinking
Human nature is stubborn and slow to change
Life is a matter of compromises and disappointments
There is a gap between human desires and human possibilities

77
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Who wrote The Minister’s Black Veil

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

78
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What time period was the Civil War Era

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1850-1880

79
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What were big ideas of the civil war era

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Resistance to slavery
A nation divided
A poetic revolution

80
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What are spirituals

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Sorrow songs created by African Americans enslaved in the South before the outbreak of the civil war
Combined Christian hymns and african music
Sung in both worship and while laboring in the field
Some served as encoded messages of hope for escape

81
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Who is America’s national poet

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Walt Whitman

82
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What work is Walt Whitman best known for

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Leaves of Grass

83
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What is another name for Walt Whitman

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The “good gray poet”

84
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What kind of writing style did walt whitman introduce to poetry

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Free verse

85
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What did walt whitman want to do in his poetry

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He wanted to project himself into the identities of Americans from ordinary walks of life and to incorporate their lives into his own
Celebrated the potential of the human spirit
Embraced every aspect of life

86
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What were features of whitman’s poems

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Catalogs
Parallelism
Free verse
Emphasis on the physical body and all of the senses 
Repetition 
Individuality
Long lines
Strong diction 
Sensuality/sexuality 
Equality of all humans and the processes of nature
87
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What were some of walt whitmans famous works

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Song of myself
I hear America Singing
Beat Beat Drums
I heard the learned astronomer 
give me the splendid silent sun
88
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What were some of emily dickinsons famous works

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Hope is the thing with feathers
Because i could not stop for death
Some keep the sabbath going to church
I felt a funeral in my brain

89
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Where was emily Dickinson born

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Amherst, Massachusetts

90
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What do emily dickinsons poems do

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Talk abstractions and generalizations and turn them into specific, concrete images

91
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What are some features of her poetry

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Brevity of most of her lines and stanzas
Use of the quatrain (four line stanza)
Unconventional use of punctuation and capitalization
Slant rhyme
Figurative language (similes, metaphors, personification)
Synesthesia

92
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Expressing one sense in terms of another

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Synesthesia

93
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What is the time period of regionalism and realism

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1880-1910

94
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What did realism entail

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Writing about the environment one knew
Included details of speech, dress, and behavior
Seeks to portray ordinary life as real people live it
Attempts to show characters and events in a factual way

95
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What is the job of the realistic writer

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To observe, record, and analyze
Be more objective than subjective
Be more descriptive than symbolic

96
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What did regionalism entail

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Aimed to capture the local color of the area and people it portrayed
Deals with lives of ordinary people

97
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What is regionalism a blend of at some times

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Romanticism and realism

98
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What does good regionalist writing include

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Used all elements of the local scene such as accurate descriptions of characters’ activities, dialect and accurate descriptions of nature and physical appearance of the environment being portrayed to extend insights to the universal

99
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What is naturalism an outgrowth of

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Realism

100
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What did naturalism do

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Responded to theories in science, psychology, and human behavior

101
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During what years did naturalism take place

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Late 1800s

102
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What happens in naturalist fiction

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People are often caught within forces. Of nature or society that are beyond their understanding or control
Uses a facts-only approach

103
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What is Kate Chopin’s writing noted for

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Its louisiana local color

104
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What does kate chopin’s writing explore

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It explores the roles of women in society, particularly as wives and mothers

105
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What do people often identify Kate Chopin as

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Master of irony

106
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What are the three types of irony

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Verbal, situational, and dramatic

107
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What is verbal irony

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Saying one thing and meaning another

108
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What is situational irony

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The outcome of a situation or action is quite different from what one expects

109
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What is dramatic irony

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The reader is aware of something that the character(s) is not aware of

110
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What is Kate Chopin’s popular work

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The story of an hour

111
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Who wrote The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

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Mark Twain

112
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Who wrote the Spoon River Anthology

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Edgar Lee Masters

113
Q

What was the time period of modernism

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1910-1930

114
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What are names associated with the modernism era

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The Jazz Age
The Age of the Lost Generation
The Roaring Twenties

115
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What specifically happened during the modernism period

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Rebellion against social patterns 
Reaction against war
Recovery from world war 
Awakening for African Americans 
Women's rights
Consumerism 
Disillusionment
A sense of alienation 
Drive for success 
Importance of youth and unrequited love 
Identify conflicts
Search. For happiness 
Redefining of the american dream
116
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What were the three important literary movements of modernist literature

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  1. Stream of consciousness writing
  2. Imagism
  3. Harlem Renaissance
117
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During what years did the Harlem Renaissance happen

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1920-1935

118
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What happened during the harlem renaissance

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A group of talented African American writers produced a prolific body of literature in poetry, fiction, drama, and essay

119
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WHo was W.E.B. DuBois and what did he do

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One of the founders of the NAACP

Introduced the notion of “twoness” - a divided awareness of one’s identity as an american and a negro

120
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What was promoted during the Harlem Renaissance

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The idea that blacks could not achieve social equality by emulating white deals; equality could be achieved only by teaching black racial pride with an emphasis on an african cultural heritage

121
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What were objectives of harlem renaissance writers

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Define and renew black heritage
Protest oppression of blacks
Make other americans aware of black life
Prove that black writers could produce literature equal in quality to that of white writers
To capture the general sentiments of the American blacks of the time

122
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What are examples of subjective pronouns

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I
He
She
They
We
You
Who
123
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When do you use a subjective pronoun

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When it is the subject of a sentence or clause

124
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What are examples of objective pronouns

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Me
Her
Him
Them
Us
Whom
125
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What are examples of linking verbs

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Is
Are
Was
Where
Has
Will
Shall
126
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When are subjective pronouns used

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When they follow linking verbs

127
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When are objective pronouns used

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When they follow a verb or preposition

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