6 Week Second Semester Flashcards
(160 cards)
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To a waterfowl
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William Cullen Bryant
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The Raven
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Edgar Allan Poe
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The fall of the house of usher
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Thanatopsis
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William Cullen Bryant
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The devil and tom walker
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Washington Irving
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The bells
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Edgar Allan Poe
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To Helen
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Edgar Allan Poe
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In the early 1800s Americans went from what to what
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Colonialism to nationalism
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What were Americans becoming
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Manufacturers
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The early 1800s were a time of great
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Expansion
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Jackson warned that ___ could become the greatest dividing threat
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Internal division
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What replaced classicism
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Romanticism
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What did romanticism value
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Intuition, humanitarian reform, and the mysterious
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Who promoted transcendentalism
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Emerson
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How did transcendentalism see nature
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Organic process, constantly developing, ever changing
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First national literary hero
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Natty bumps
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Who saw nature as a great teacher of spiritual truths
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William Bryant
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Irvin’s most famous stories are adaptations of
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German folk tales
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What did irving’s first substantial writing do for him
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Nothing
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Irving began using what to allow his readers to connect with the past
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Legends and old tales
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When did Irving return to the US and how
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1832 foremost writer
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What did Irving write 5 volumes of
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Biography of George Washington
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Most popular story in the world
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Rip van winkle
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What does Irving combine in hearsay
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Supernatural and natural
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Setting for our story from Irving
Not Vermont 1827
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Who buried the treasure and who guarded it
Captain Kidd
| The devil
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How did tom and his wife live
In strife
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What did tom discover first
Skull with Indian tomahawk in it
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Nickname for the devil
Old scratch
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Why did tom not sell himself to the devil
To spite his wife
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What was tom worried about
Valuables
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What was in the apron
Parts of his wife
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Would tom be a slave trader
No
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What did tom do
Became a money lender in Boston
Became very wealthy
Tried to cheat the devil by going to church carrying a bible, and burying his horse upside down with a saddle on
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How did the devil find tom
Unprepared
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What happened to tom's wealth
Cinders, shavings, skeletons, and ashes
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What did cooper write
30 novels, naval history, several volumes of social comments
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First novel to make serious use of American history
The spy by cooper
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What is cooper's theme
Effect of the frontier upon American character
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Bumpo's morality has been formed by ___ and represents ___
The wilderness
| Cooper's hope for a moral renewal in America
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America's most cherished myth
Wilderness brings new beginning and continual youth
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Bumpo's other names
Deerslayer
| Hawkeye
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What were rive oak and panther known for
Mental, physical
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How did the Chiefs look at deerslayer in court
Nothing decided yet
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How did riven oak regard deerslayer
Respected him
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Deerslayer's reaction to marrying sumac
Refused
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What happened with the tomahawk
Panther threw it at deerslayer, who caught it and threw it back, killing him, then he ran
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Did deerslayer hide in a cave
No
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Did deerslayer have an oar
A stick, until a bullet shattered it
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Did deerslayer get shot
No
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Did he escape the Hurons and if so how
Yes, by drifting with the wind
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What does Bryant see in to a waterfowl
Solitary bird migrating south
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Does Bryant think about hunters
Yes
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Eagles and mountains in Bryant
No
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Does Bryant believe in a power guiding the birds
Yes
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Does the bird land
No
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When will the bird's flight end
Rest in summer
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Lesson of to a waterfowl
God guided the bird and would guide the author
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What does nature do in Thanatopsis
Speaks in various ways to our diverse moods
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What to do when worried about death
Go outside and listen to nature's voice
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Does Bryant mention the soul
No
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What does Bryant call the earth
Great tomb
| Magnificent couch
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When did Poe lose his parents
Early in life
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Was Poe ever formally adopted by Allan
No
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Did Poe graduate
No
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Did Poe ever get Allan's affection
No
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Who did Poe live with, and what happened there
An aunt, switched from poetry to fiction
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What happens when Poe is 26
He marries his 13 year old cousin with the help of his aunt
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What does Poe use imagination for
Exit the real world and enter the inner world
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Was Poe successful
Wrote poetry, remained poor
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What happened after the death of his first wife
Never remarried
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Poe in general
Creator of effective poetry
Developer of short story
Inventor of detective story
Explorer of dark inner self
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Was the house of usher pleasant
No
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Crack did what
Ran from roof to water in the tarn
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First spoken words of usher
I shall perish I must perish in this deplorable folly
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About Madeleine
Roderick's sister
| Dying
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Rider's attempts to help usher
Failed
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When does usher confess to burying Madeleine alive
Hearing sounds during the story
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Does the rider get away
Yes
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How does the bells progress
Darker
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What does the bells use
Onomatopoeia
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Poe myth
Debauched character ruined talent
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Poe became
The most influential American writer of his time and maybe any time
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French poet Baudelaire tried to
Promote Poe throughout France
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Baudelaire admired
Poe's imaginative penetration of the mind's abnormal states
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Poe's prototype for detectives
Frenchman Auguste dupin
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Dupin portrayed as
Taking many clues and arriving at culprit
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When did surrealism first appear
WWI in France
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Surreal definition of reality
Irrational, fantastic, bizarre
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How did surrealism flourish best
Visually
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Technique in surrealism
Familiar object with weird texture
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What did surrealists want to do
Jolt us out of accustomed way of Seeing things
| Stress no clear line between subject and object or dreams and reality
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Dictionary definition of a word
De notation
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Concepts and emotions associated with a word
Connotation
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Choice in selecting words
Diction
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Syllable scheme or pattern using stressed and unstressed accents
Feet
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Repeated vowel sounds
Assonance
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Repeated consonant sounds
Alliteration
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Words whose sound reveals their meaning
Onomatopoeia
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Extended metaphor through whole poem
Conceit
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Physical object that represents something non-physical
Symbol
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Something in the past that is widely known and understood
Allusion
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Between 1820-1850, 28 utopian communities were founded
False
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Transcendentalism says we can only gain knowledge through our senses
False
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Emerson's NATURE is the supreme example of transcendentalism Art
False
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Dickinson's poems greatly influenced transcendentalism
False
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Did James Russell Lowell write twice told tales
No
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Pacific weekly
Non existence
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Did NC secede in 1860
No
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When was snowbound written
1866
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Where did Emerson go to school
Harvard
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Life of Emerson
Gave up ministry, wife died a year later
Went to Europe
Came back and remarried
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When did Emerson write NATURE
1836
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Emerson
Pantheism
Oversoul in everything, optimistic transcendentalism
Hinduism
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Describe emerson's message
Exhilarating to his own generation and the next
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Most influential in shaping literature
Emerson
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Works
Self reliance
Friendship
Concord hymn
Snow storm
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Sayings of Emerson
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Trust thyself
Transparent eyeball
A man is nonconformist
One is sincere, two are hypocritical
Sky is the daily bread of the eye
Hitch your wagon to a star
Shot heard round the world
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Difference between Emerson and thoreau
Emerson - philosopher
| Thoreau - disciple who put ideas to test
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Thoreau's life
Harvard grad
Odd jobs and wrote for the transcendentalism publication called the dial
Educated by nature, lived at walden ponder fused to pay taxes
Influenced ghandi and MLKJ
Passive resistance when government is wrong
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What did Thoreau write
Walden
| civil disobedience
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When was walden written
1854
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Thoreau sayings
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Learn from the woods
Not die and discover not lied
Simplicity
Railroad rides us
Walking to different drums
Money not needed for soul
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Hawthorne's life
Bowdoin college
1825-1837 silent period perfected writing skills
Married 1841
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When was the scarlet letter
1850
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Themes of Hawthorne
Human heart and evil against transcendentalism
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Works of Hawthorne
Notebooks and other writings
| Scarlet letters
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Sayings of Hawthorne
Description
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Melville's life
Education from ocean
No other writer had as much worldly knowledge
Five novels, progressively more philosophical
Barely able to support himself
Died 40 years after Moby dick, virtually unknown
Against transcendentalists
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What did Melville write
Moby dick
Shiloh
Maldives shark
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Quote from Melville
Wicked book, spotless as lamb
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Height of longfellow's career
America's most popular poet
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Who were the fireside poets
Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes, Whittier
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Was longfellow's poetry weird
No
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What did Whittier do when he got out from college
Did not write novels
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What does Holmes compare the nautilus's freedom to
The soul's freedom
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What did Longfellow say
Life is real, grave not the goal
| Leave behind footsteps of time
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Holmes said
God of storms, lighting and gale
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Lowell said
Zekle dogwood blushing
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Dickinson
Centuries feel shorter than day
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And leave his broke play things on the floor
Iambic pentameter
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Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary
Trochaic
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Oh he flies through the air with the greatest of ease
Anapestic
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This is the forest primeval the murmuring pines and the hemlocks
Dactylic
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Anapestic
Short short long
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Dactylic
Long short short
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3 main ideas of transcendentalism
Optimism, nature is spiritual, look within for spiritual
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Emerson's snow
Craftsman
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Wit tiers snow
Makes familiar things different
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Three interpretations of Moby Dick
Mysteries of universe, purity, death, neutrality
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Nature is what
Italian sonnet
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Arrow and song
Enduring, stories,
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Apostrophe
Direct address
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Steps to analyze poem
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Read twice
Read aloud
First impressions
Meaning of words and theme
Title
Parts
As a whole
Draw together
Main idea
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Parts of poem
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Tone,structure
Sound
Rhythm
Language
Denotative and connotative
Imagery
Similes, metaphors, personifications
Symbolism
Analogies conceits
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Psalm of life
Do something
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Nature poem
Mother takes child to bed puts toys away promising new better ones, nature same way
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Tide rises and falls
Tide is constant, life is short, traveler does not return
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Power in my hand
Struggle against self with allusion to David and Goliath
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The leather stocking tales
James fenimore cooper
