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Unit 7 Flashcards

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Edgar Allan Poe often depicts what kind of men?

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Depraved men who are twisted and their innermost natures

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Edgar Allan Poe was the 1st American writer to influence what three genres?

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Poetry,fiction, and criticism

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Edgar Allan Poe doesn’t believe that literature should be a means of instruction but rather for what?

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Entertainment

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What are Poe’s principles for literary composition?

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  1. A work must have high literary quality, not just develop typical American content
  2. A single emotion or mood should dominate a work
  3. A work should be short enough to be read in one sitting
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For the Christian, Poe’s perspective is flawed because of what?

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Because of his exclusive focus on entertainment and the morbid side of man’s nature

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In the poem “to Helen” emphasizes the soul’s attraction to what?

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To beauty

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What is the rhyme scheme of the poem “to Helen”?

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Ababb cdcdc effef

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What are important features of the poem “the Raven”?

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  • frequent use of internal and multi-syllabic rhyme
  • increasing emotional density
  • frequent use of repetition
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What does the speaker mean by asking if there is a balm in gilead?

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It is a biblical allusion and means he wants to know if he will experience relief from the bitter grief he has experienced

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In the poem “sonnet-to-science” science is likened to a vulture because it has wings and it what?

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“preys…..upon the poet’s heart”

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To emphasize the theme, the sonnet “sonnet-to-science” features what?

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  1. References to mythology
  2. The speaker’s dream
  3. Nature
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What is uncharacteristic about the poem “to my mother” which was written by Poe?

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The poem “to my mother” had a warm, and personal tone

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In “Annabel lee” what is Annabel lee’s primary purpose in life?

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Was “to love and be loved” by the speaker

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What are the stylistic elements “Annabel lee”?

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It’s diction, meter, and repetition-it contributes to the fairy-tale like mood

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What is the theme of “the purloined letter”?

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Appearances can be deceiving

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What is the point of the story about the bot who won all the marbles in his school by playing a guessing game?

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That the boy, unlike the prefect, succeeded by correctly assessing the thought process of his opponent. It was his reasoning skills

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17
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Poe lost his parents at an _________ Age

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Early age

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18
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Why was Hawthorne motivated?

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literary nationalism

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What kind of settings did Hawthorne use usually?

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American settings

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Hawthorne was the only one of the American romantics to express a viewpoint based on what kind of values?

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Christian values

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What did Hawthorne frequently criticize?

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The unrealistic optimism of transcendentalism

22
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What stages did Hawthorne’s literary career divide into?

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Literary preparation, short story, and novel

23
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Hawthorne was the only writer to be attracted to what kind of history?

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American history

24
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Hawthorne uses historical setting in his fiction and stresses the universal themes of what?

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Of isolation guilt and pride

25
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What receives the greatest of emphasis in hawthorne’s collections?

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Allegory

26
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A story with a literal and a implied level of meaning

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Allegory

27
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What perspectives are given in “the maypole of merry mount”?

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  1. The merry mounters through the puritans eyes
  2. The puritans in the merry mounters eyes
  3. Both groups in Edith’s and Edgar’s eyes
28
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Hawthorne associate merry mount with _____________ by the major role nature plays in this story

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Transcendentalism

29
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“The celestial road” satirizes modernized what?

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Religion

30
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The characters of “the celestial road” are abstract rather than lifelike because it is necessary for what?

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Allegory

31
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The primary currency of vanity fair is what?

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Conscience

32
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What did some people trade at very disadvantageous rates for a few years lease on a small dismal shanty?

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Tract of land and golden mansions situated in the city

33
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What is the theme/central idea of “the minister’s black veil”?

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Man should be conscious of his proneness to sin

34
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While wearing the veil Mr. Hooper’s first sermon was about what?

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Secret sin

35
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The black veil kept Mr. Hooper in the what which is his heart?

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“Saddest of all prisons”

36
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Hawthorne sets “the birthmark” in the 18th century because why?

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The 18th century’s age of reason is appropriate for Alymer’s character

37
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In the story “the birthmark” hawthornes focuses on moral issues rather than what?

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Bizarre events

38
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Georgiana’s birthmark is symbolic of what?

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Imperfection

39
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Aminadab in “the birthmark” represents what?

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Man’s physical nature

40
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Why is Georgiana confident in Alymer’s science in “the birthmark”?

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She trusts him and says no need of proof

41
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In “the birthmark” Alymer is successful in removing what?

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The birthmark

42
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Mr. Hooper in “the minister’s black veil” reaction to the disturbing effect of the veil on his congregation is that he seems unaware of what?

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The effect

43
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What veil in “the minister’s black veil” is mr. Hooper willing to lift at death?

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The veil that separates time from eternity

44
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What does the sentence “jollity and gloom were contending for an empire” emphasis?

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The central conflict between the merry mounter and Puritan and the extreme that there opposing views of life represents

45
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What was Herman Melville born into?

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Born in prosperous socially prominent family but experienced poverty due to Father’s bankruptcy

46
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Unlike Poe’s and Hawthorne’s objections, Melville’s objections to transcendentalism were primarily what?

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Philosophical

47
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What was Herman Melville’s greatest work?

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Moby dick

48
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Herman Melville’s own what provided background for his best fiction?

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Sea experiences

49
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Herman Melville favored a what kind of style, which attempts to represent the world exactly as he saw it

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A realistic style

50
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What is the theme/central idea of “Bartley the scrivener”?

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Man is flawed and lives out a futile and isolated existence

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