Transendentalism

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Tanscendentalism flourished when?

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1830s & 1840s

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“The human mind is so powerful it can _________, from the irricacies of Nature to the wonder of God-Emerson

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Unlock any mystery

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________ was at the center of the universe

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Individual

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Early 1830 a young Boston pastor had trouble with his faith we t to Europe and studied

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Produce of transcendentalist movement

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2 books Emerson’s Nature (1836) and Thoreau’s Walden (1854)

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“The individual is the world”

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Emerson

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Proposed every soul and all nature part of an

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Oversoul

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Transcendentalists was made up of_______ including________

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Small group of men and women including Amos Bronson Alcott , Margaret fuller,and henry david thoreau

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Supporters flocked to emersons home in

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Concord mass

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Those who adopted thoreau’s ideas:

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Gandhi, Martin Luther king Jr

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_______ of the transcendentalists is so woven into the fabric of american culture that we take it for granted

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Influence

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Emersonis author of

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Nature, Self Reliance and Concord Hymn

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Figures of speech language used imaginatively

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Figurative language

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A stated similarity between two or more unlike things that does not use the words

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Metaphor

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The use of a part of something to stand for the whole

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Synecdoche

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Word pictures

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Imagery

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Emerson helped instill:

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Individuality, independence and an appreciation for the wonders of nature

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Son of a unitarian minister

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Emerson

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Emerson was born in

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Boston

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Attended ________ at 14 began ____ he was to keep all his ife

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Harvard;journal

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After graduating harvard emerson became

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Pastor of 2nd church of boston

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Emerson resigned after 3 yrs bc

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Wifes tragic death

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Emerson went to europe and met

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Thomas carlyle, samuel taylor coleridge and william wordsworth

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Emerson returned and settled in

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Concord mass

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Emerson remarried

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Lydia jackson of plymouth

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Emerson first achieved fame in 1841 when he

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Published Essays (collection based on material from his journals and lectures)

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Emerson published essays, 2nd vol in

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1844

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Emerson published

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Representative men (1849 and the conduct of life 1860)

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Considered self a

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Poet

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Published poems (1847) and

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May day and other pieces (1867)

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Emersons poems expressed

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His beliefs in individuality and in humanity's spiritual connection to nature

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Aithor of Walden and Civil Disobedience

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Thoreau

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Attended concord academy later enrolling at harvard

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Thoreau

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Thoreaus personality

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Individual, unique, eccentric seen odd

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What forced thoreau to quit first teaching job

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Objections to corporal punishment

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Thoreau and who? Opened their own ______ in concord? Was successful but had to shut down due to person's illness

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Brother John; school

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1841 Thoreau moved ______ lived there for 2 yrs worked odd jobs to pay for his room

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Emersons house

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Thoreau became emersons

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Friend and disciple

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Thoreau devoted energy to

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Explore the spiritual relationship between humanity and nature and to live by his political and social belief

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1845-47 Thoreau lived alone in a one room cabin he built at _______ near concord whoch provided him w/material for Walden

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Walden Pond

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Walden is considered

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The supreme work of Transcendentalist literature and one of the greatest ex of nature writing in american lit

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Thoreau died at age 44 from

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Tuberculosis

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Only ______&_______ was published while thoreau was still alive

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A week on the concord and Merimack rivers and some poems

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Published after thoreaus death

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The maine woods , cape cod, a yankee in canada

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Thorea has a _____ tone

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Conversational

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Unique manner in which he or she puts thoughts into words

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Authors style

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Word choice

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Diction

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Arrangement of words in sentences

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Syntax

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Thoreau was retracted from society to

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Live in harmony with nature

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Thoreau felt that people should

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Seek truth within themselves be self reliant and ignore the customs of society

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Thoreau bellived nature and ____ were linked

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Human emotions

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When man recognizes he is part of Nature he is acknowledging the divine within

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Immanence

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Walden is a blendof natural observation,

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Social criticism, and philosophical insight

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The four seasons act as _____ for walden

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Framework

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Walden is unified by

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Poetic symbolism and imagery

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The great unifying symbol in walden is ______ which stands for the inner self

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Pond

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Thoreaus style

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Long sentences which build to a climax, graceful clear writing

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Thoreau uses ____when writing his works

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Natural images used to express abstract ideas,use of epigrams, figurative language and rhetorical ?s

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Transecendentalists believed most inmportant truths of life could not be defined by any

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Theology

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Transcendentalists stress ___ over ____

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Emotion;intellect

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TranscendentList idea came from german philosopher

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Immanuel Kant

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____ &_______ were highly prized by transcendentalists

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Individualism and self reliance