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Semester 1 Final Flashcards

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Puritans:
-Forms

-Style

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  • Diaries, autobiographies, history, poetry, sermons, no plays/fiction
  • Plainness, inward focus. For instruction and inspiration.
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Puritans:
-Beliefs

-Time period

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  • Industry, dependence on/sovereignty of God, family, church, grace granted by God, Puritan work ethic, God directly intervenes, predestination, evil is inner, God revealed in Bible
  • 1609-1750
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Puritans:

-Cultural and historical influence

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  • Relocated from England to escape religious persecution
  • Puritan religion/God
  • Work ethic: the more you do, the more God will smile on you
  • “The Great Awakening” (religious revival)
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Puritans:

-Writers and their works

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William Bradford: “Of Plymouth Plantation”. Plain style. Son of preacher, nonconformist.

Jonathan Edwards: “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”. Sermons/persuasive.

Anne Bradstreet: Poetry. Wrote about faith. Very educated.

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Planters:

-Time period and location

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  • 1609-1750

- Located in Southern colonies, good climate and fertile lands

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Planters:

-Ideas/Beliefs

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  • Outward focus
  • Nature, vivid description
  • Society, social responsibilities, art, politics, scientific inquiry
  • Belong to Church of England
  • Admired generosity, self control, gentlemanly mannered, obligation to public
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Planters:
-Form

-Style/Purpose

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  • Travel logs, journals, diaries, essays, poems

- Satire and humor, used to entertain and pass time

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Planters:

-Cultural and historical influences

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  • Settled in Southern colonies and plantations, aristocrats with slave labor
  • Relocated for adventure, supported by King
  • Church of England, cross between Catholic and Protestant
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Planters:

-Author studied and works

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William Byrd: “History of a Dividing Line”- journal entries from duty of finding dividing line between Virginia and N.C.
-Known for satire, entertaining style, keen observation of nature

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Revolutionary:
-Time period

-Ideas/Beliefs

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-1750-1800’s

  • Science, ethics, government. Man best serves God by serving community.
  • Use reason to manage selves/society, reason thrives on freedom
  • Deism
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Revolutionary:
-Style

  • Forms
  • Purpose
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  • Crisp, clear, economical
  • Pamphlets, essays, songs, speeches
  • Helped unify and create new society
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Benjamin Franklin:
-Era

  • Work
  • Personal History
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-Revolutionary (1706-1790)

  • Poor Richard’s Almanac: Calendar, sunrise/tides/etc, aphorisms
  • Autobiography: Letter to son William, covers life until 51

-Left school at 10, educated himself, settled in Philadelphia as a printer

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Patrick Henry:
-Era

  • Works
  • Personal History
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  • Revolutionary (1736-1799)
  • Speech to Virginia Convention: Urging President and fellow citizens to break free of Britain’s control
  • Heard sermons during “GA”, after failed farming career went into politics (Rep. of Virginia House of Burgesses)
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Thomas Paine:
-Era

  • Works
  • Background
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-Revolutionary (1737-1809)

  • Common Sense (1776): Pamphlet arguing for independence
  • The Crisis (1776-83): 16 essays asking for support of Revolution

-Born in England, moved to America 1774, poorly educated

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Romanticism:
-Time period

  • Two branches of romanticism
  • Historical/cultural influence
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  • 1790-1850
  • Fireside Poets and Gothic (Anti-Transcendentalists)
  • In response to Age of Reason
  • Coincided with America grasping for her sense of individuality
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Romanticism:
-Cause

-Subjects

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-Rxn. to Age of Reason. Emphasized feeling/imagination over reason and fact.

  • Nature: Beauty, mysterious, spiritual lessons. Confirms deepest intuitions and truths.
  • The Past: Legends, folktales, Revolution, Indian Wars, conquest of wilderness
  • Inner World of Human Nature: Emphasis on emotions, intuition of individual
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Romanticism:

-Six Characteristics

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  1. Profound love of nature.
  2. Focus on self and individual.
  3. Fascination w/ supernatural.
  4. Yearning for picturesque.
  5. Deep rooted idealism.
  6. Passionate nationalism. Love of country.
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Washington Irving
-Era

  • Works
  • Personal history
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  • Romanticism
  • “The Sketchbook”, “Rip Van Winkle”. “The Devil and Tom Walker”: Fable, brief story told to point out moral dealing with supernatural
  • First internationally known American writer. Adapted stories.
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Fireside Poets:
-Dates

  • Names
  • What was it?
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  • 1830-1865
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russesll Lowell, Oliver Wendall Holmes, William Cullen Byrant, John Greenleaf Whittier
  • 1st American literary movement, still used British style
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Fireside Poets:

-Values

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  • Imagination
  • Emotion
  • Individuality
  • Nature

(INIEm)

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Fireside Poets:

-5 beliefs

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  1. Poetry is superior to science.
  2. Contemplation of material world is a way to discover truth behind reality.
  3. Distrust of industry and city life.
  4. Interest in “natural” past and spirituality.
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Transcendentalism:
-Time period

  • Location
  • Values and beliefs
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  • 1840-1860
  • Concord, MA
  • God in every soul (Pantheism), people inherently good. Follow own beliefs. Optimism, freedom, self-reliance. Anti-materialistic.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson:
-Era

  • Works/Philosophy
  • Personal History
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  • Transcendentalism
  • “Nature”: Essay on romantic/idealistic philosophy. “Self Reliance.” Believed in Christianity, democracy, integrity of individual.
  • Was pastor, traveled to England, returned to Boston and became lecturer. Founded the Dial, transc. magazine and Transc. club.
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Henry David Thoreau:
-Era

  • Works/Beliefs
  • Personal History
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  • Transcendentalism
  • “Walden” excerpts. Question authority, wanted to simplify things.
  • Studied at Harvard, became teacher and was encouraged to resign, opened alternative school. Caretaker at Emerson’s.
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Edgar Allen Poe:
-Era

  • Works
  • Personal History
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  • Romantic/Anti-Transcendentalism
  • “The Black Cat”, “The Masque of the Red Death”. Used allegory (story behind story)
  • Author, literary critic, master of short story. Mother, wife/cousin die of rabies. Poe found in gutter dead.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne:
-Era

  • Works
  • Personal History
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  • Romantic/Anti-Transcendentalism
  • The Scarlett Letter. House of Seven Gables. (“Minister’s Black Veil”)
  • Descended from wealthy people, judges. Obsessed with cruelty, pride, intolerance.
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Realism/Regionalism:
-Time period

  • Characteristics:
    • Local color
    • Regionalistic writers
    • Portrayed
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-Late 1800’s

  • Novel had quality of specific region, depicted life as it truly is. Authors idealized subjects and settings.
  • Wrote dialogue with dialect of people, portrayed/analyzed people/events, used stereotypes
  • Dialect, customs, mannerisms, dress, landscapes
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Mark Twain:
-Era

  • Works/Beliefs
  • Personal History
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  • AKA Samuel Longhorn Clemens
  • “Tom Sawyer”. “Huckleberry Finn”. Known for satire, exp., irony, humor, tall tale
  • Boyhood on Miss. River, steamboat pilot, army, went west to write
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Bret Harte:
-Era

  • Works
  • Personal History
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  • Regionalism
  • “The Outcasts of Poker Flat”, used setting/characterization to build local character
  • Established identity in American west, life in gold camps of Sierra
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Emily Dickinson:
-Era

  • Works/Beliefs
  • Personal History
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  • Realism
  • Selected poems. Always asking/answering metaphysical questions (morality, renunciation, perfection). Salvation, damnation, fear, love..
  • Recluse, observer of nature, often depressed. Poetry was her release.
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Walt Whitman:
-Era

  • Works/Beliefs
  • Personal History
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  • Realism/Romanticism
  • Drum Taps. Used free verse, phrase rather than foot.Believed in democracy and common man. Faith in love, success of democracy, knowledge of God.
  • Little formal education
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Parallel Structure (Grammar)

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Using same pattern of words to show two or more ideas have same level of importance. Word, phrase, or clause level.

Ex: Mary likes to hike, to swim, and to ride a bicycle.

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Synecdoche

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Part of something represents a whole. The whole of something represents a part.

Ex: Bread is used to represent food in general or money.
Ex: The world is not treating me well. (Part of world encountered is not)

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Metaphor/Extended Metaphor

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  • Figure of speech that makes comparison between two unlike things without using specific words of comparison.
  • Developed or extended over a number of lines in a poem or piece. (AKA conceit)
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Metonymy

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The use of one thing to represent something related.

Ex: “The White House said” to represent the President

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Inverted Syntax

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Reversal of usual word order to receive some sort of emphasis.

Ex: “So exciting was the movie, that I forgot to do my homework.”

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Aphorism

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A terse saying embodying a general truth, or astute observation.

Ex: “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely” (Lord Acton).

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Allusion

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Casual or indirect reference to something; history, bible, etc.

Ex: The Bible is a fertile source of allusion in art.

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Satire

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Literary composition in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule.

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Antithesis

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Placing of a sentence or one of its parts against another to which it is opposed to form a balanced contrast of ideas.

Ex: “Give me liberty or give me death.”

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Free Verse

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Verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern.

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Slant Rhyme

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(Imperfect, half rhyme) Rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical.

Ex: Eyes, light; years, yours.

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