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SEMESTER 1 EXAM Flashcards

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1
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Formal praise or tribute

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Encomium

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To work on excessively

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Belabor

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To avoid

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Eschew

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Able to get and retain information or ideas; concerned with acquiring wealth or property

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Acquisitive

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To imitate

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Emulate

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To take without right; to steal

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Arrogate

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Trite, commonplace; the usual

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Banal

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To change from liquid to solid;thicken

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Congeal

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Tending to find fault, especially in a nagging way; nagging criticism

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Carping

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To establish by evidence, prove

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Substantiate

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Holding together; meaningful

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Coherent

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12
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To stall in order to gain time; to compromise

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Temporize

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13
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Generosity in giving

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Largesse

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14
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Capable of being held or defended

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Tenable

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Unable to be satisfied

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Insatiable

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16
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Preliminary inspection

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Reconnaissance

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17
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Relevant or appropriate

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Germane

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18
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Refusing to compromise; stubborn

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Intransigent

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19
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Inclined to talk very little, habitually quiet

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Taciturn

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20
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Offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness resentment

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Invidious

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Intensely eager

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Avid

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Calm, peaceful, happy

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Halcyon

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23
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Sneaky; roundabout

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Devious

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24
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To approach and speak to first

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Accost

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Setting fire or causing fires; tending to stir rebellion; one who stirs rebellion

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Incendiary

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26
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A comment of strong disapproval

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Animadversion

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27
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In chess, an opening move involving risk; an opening move

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Gambit

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28
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Having a salty taste

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Brackish

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29
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Theatrical, dramatic

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Histrionic

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30
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Swiftness, quickness

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Celerity

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31
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Asking humbly; one who asks humbly

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Suppliant

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32
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The state of being proper; appropriateness

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Propriety

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33
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Open, direct

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Overt

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34
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To move in waves or wavelike motion

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Undulate

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35
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Disrespectful treatment of something held sacred

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Sacrilege

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36
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An object believed to have magic powers

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Talisman

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37
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Nearsighted; lacking a broad view; narrow-minded

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Myopic

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38
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Without delay; briefly, concisely

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Summarily

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39
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Tending to make worse; expressing disapproval

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Pejorative

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40
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A whirlpool of great size and violence; a violent situation

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Maelstrom

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41
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Distraught

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Agitated

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42
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Belief or mental acceptance

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Credence

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43
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Lacking in spirit and strength; weak, ineffective

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Feckless

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44
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To condemn

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Decry

45
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To pronounce distinctly; to express well in words; expressed clearly; able

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Articulate

46
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To romp or prance around exuberantly

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Cavort

47
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To disguise or conceal

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Dissemble

48
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High praise

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Eulogy

49
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To remove from a grave; bring to light

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Exhume

50
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To display clearly; to make evident; to provoke

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Evince

51
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Green in color; immature in experience

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Verdant

52
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Wordy language

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Verbiage

53
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Dark and gloomy; lacking in clarity

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Murky

54
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Neatness in place or time; kinship

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Propinquity

55
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Stimulating to the taste or mind; spicy

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Piquant

56
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Founded upon a visionary view of any ideal world; impractical

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Utopian

57
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Wicked, evil

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Nefarious

58
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Having a gluey quality; sticky

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Viscous

59
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Not usual or expected; not in character

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Unwonted

60
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Created at the very beginning; basic or fundamental

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Primordial

61
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What does Romanticism focus on? (Characteristics)

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Emotions
Idealism
Nationalism or love of country

62
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What does Romanticism emphasize? (Characteristics)

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Individual
Intuition & imagination
Changeability & possibility of human personality

63
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What are the other characteristics of Romanticism?

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Profound love of nature
Belief that close observation of the natural world gives insight into all life
Humanitarian reform (abolishment of slavery, education improvements)
Stressed social progress

64
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Time period of Romanticism

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1800-1840

65
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Five I’s of Romanticism

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Imagination
Intuition
Individualism
Idealism
Inspiration from nature
66
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Beliefs of romantic writers: focus on ___________

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Emotions

67
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Beliefs of romantic writers: profound love of _________

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Nature

68
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Beliefs of romantic writers: emphasis on the _______________

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Individual

69
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Beliefs of romantic writers: emphasis on ______________ and ____________

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Intuition and imagination

70
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Beliefs of romantic writers: emphasis on the ________________ and possibility of human personality

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Changeability

71
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Beliefs of romantic writers: focus on ___________

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Idealism

72
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Beliefs of romantic writers: focus on _____________ or love of country

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Nationalism

73
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Beliefs of romantic writers: belief that ________ ____________ of the natural world gives insight into all life, especially _________ ______

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Close observation, human life

74
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Beliefs of romantic writers: _________________ ____________ (abolition of slavery, improvements in education, etc.)

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Humanitarian reform

75
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Beliefs of romantic writers: stressed __________ ___________

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Social progress

76
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Time period of Puritanism

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1640-1750

77
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Form of government of Puritanism

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Theocracy - under God

78
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Central beliefs: humans exist for the glory of _____

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God

79
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Central beliefs: the __________ is the sole expression of god’s will

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Bible

80
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Central beliefs: belief that God has already decided who will achieve salvation and who will not

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Predestination

81
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Central beliefs: felt that they could accomplish good only through continual _______ _______ and ______-____________

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Hard work, self discipline

82
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Central beliefs: strong belief In ______________

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Education

83
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Puritanism ideals???

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Hard work 
Frugality 
Simplicity
Self-improvement
Self-reliance 
Plainness in dress, activity, worship writing style
84
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What happened in stop pretending?

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Cookie’s sister is in a mental hospital and she has to cope with the grief of her family and in fear that she will turn out like her sister

85
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Who wrote Upon the Burning of our House, flesh and spirit?

What literary movement are they a part of ?

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Anne Bradstreet, Puritanism

86
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The rhyming of two or more lines of poetry

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End rhyming

87
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A symbol, story pattern, or character type that is found in the literature of many cultures

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Archetype

88
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An archetype found in Native American mythology

An animal speaks and displays other human traits and has 2 sides to its personality

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Tricksters

89
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Who wrote Letters of an American Farmer?

What literary movement are they from?

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Jean de Crevecoeur, Romanticism

90
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Who wrote Thanatopsis, Death of the flowers?

What literary movement

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William Cullen Bryant, Romanticism

91
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Who wrote the devil and tom walker, legend of sleepy hollow?

What literary movement

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Washington Irving, Romanticism

92
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Who wrote the black cat, the raven

What literary movement?

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Edgar Allen Poe, Romanticism

93
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Who wrote the bean trees?

What literary movement?

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Barbara Kingsolver, Romanticism

94
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Who is the father of detective fiction

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Edgar Allen Poe

95
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Who was the first writer to compare America to a melting pot

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Jean de Crevecoeur

96
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Who mixed elements of the supernatural with realistic details in his writing

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Washington Irving

97
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Father of American poetry

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William Cullen Bryant

98
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He perfected the short story form

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Edgar Allen Poe

99
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Gave America its first folktale

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Washington Irving

100
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The repetition of consonant sounds within a line of poetry

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Alliteration

101
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What does the devil and tom walker criticize

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Materialism

102
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What lesson about death does Thanatopsis teach

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Death need not be feared, for it is a part of nature

103
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What is not true about gothic literature

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A completely immoral ending

104
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Wrote under the pen name Diedrich nickerbockers

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Washington Irving

105
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What happened in the raven?

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List his wife Lenore, raven came and didn’t stop saying “nevermore”

106
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What happened in the devil and tom walker

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Devil makes a deal with tom to make him rich then he sends tom to hell when he carries a bible in his pocket for a day

107
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What happened in the black cat

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Edgar abuses his cat and hangs it, his house burns down and there is a cat print in the plaster
He buries his wife in the wall and gets caught

108
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What happens in the crucible

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A group of girls are caught dancing around a fire and are accused of being witches

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