Unit 8 Flashcards
(18 cards)
What story emphasizes trusting yourself and non-conformity?
Self-Reliance
What poem commemorates the first shots fired in the War for Independence?
Concord Hymn
What poem shows that everyone and everything has a purpose?
Fable
Who offered up his home for the A.C.?
Shelldrake
Who told the group what they could or could not eat and drunk beer claiming it was a vegetable?
Abel Mallory
Who had the idea of candor (telling each other their own secret faults)?
Hollins
Who was a dramatic singer who had a squeaky voice?
Miss Ringtop
Who was the man who told the story?
Enos Billings
Who was the wife of Enos?
Eunice Hazleton
What poem celebrates America’s opportunities?
I Hear America Singing
Who wrote Self-Reliance and Concord Hymn?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who wrote The Experiences of the A.C.?
Bayard Taylor
Who wrote Walden?
Henry David Thoreau
What author probably came closest to carrying out the teachings of Transcendentalism?
Henry David Thoreau
Who was America’s first modern poet?
Walt Whitman
Who wrote I Hear America Singing, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d, and O Captain! My Captain!?
Walt Whitman
What is the pseudo-religious movement that taught that men and nature were divine and that men ought to rely only on themselves?
Transcendentalism
What is a compact statement that expresses a truth?
Aphorisms
