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Mr. Ploehs Quarter Test 1
Mr. Ploehs, Elder High School
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11th Grade
10/23/2012

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A period in American literature with strong emphasis on colonists and pilgrims, Plymoth Rock, and the First Thanksgiving
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Colonial Period(1600-1750)
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William Bradford is the author of this famous book which was written during the Colonail Period
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Of Plymooth Plantation (1620)
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These beliefs emphasized a literal interpretation of the Bible, predestination, and original sin
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Puritan beliefs
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a Purtian minister who preached of "hell and damnation" during the Great Awakening of the 1740s-1750s
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Jonathon Edwards
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period which is also called the Age of Reason, the Enlightenment, and Neo-Classicism, and borrowed ideas from Greece and Rome
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Revolutionary Period
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author of "Common Sense" and "The Crisis"
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Thomas Paine
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gave a speech at the Virginia Convention
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Patrick Henry
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"I think, therefore I am."
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Rene Descartes
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man who put intellect over heart, said that God is like a master clockmaker
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Isaac Newton
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the first example of a true Americna man, some of his works are "The Pennsylvania Gazzett", and "Poor Richard's Almanac", fostered the beginnings of the Ivy League
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Ben Franklin
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College that Ben Franklin attended, alo known as "The Academy"
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University of Penn.
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some themes of this tradition are Emotions vs. Reason, the Particluar vs. the General, and nature vs. society, and this period placed emphasis on art, literature, and music
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Romantic Period
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to a Romantic, civilization is known as what?
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The Great Corrupter
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"the willing suspension of disbelief" is a concept founded by whom?
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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this American figure is characterized by youth, innocence, love of nature and distrust of townlife, uneasiness with women, and the need to quest for higher truth.
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The National Hero
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founded by Jean Jacques Rosseau, this concept is based on an innocent primitive who has the ability to save western civilization
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Noble Savage
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actor who is synonymous with "The American Western Hero"
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John Wayne
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this group consists of James Fenimore Cooper, William Cullen Bryant, and Washington Irving, is related to New York
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The Knickerbocker School
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these men, Raplh Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, wanted to rise above the characteristics and ideas of their civilizations
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Trandscendentalists
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these men, Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville, were knwon for their darker, moodier writing
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The Brooding Romantics
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this group consisted of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell
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Fireside Poets, Cambridge Poets
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major work by Walt Whitman in 1855
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Leaves of Grass
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America's first notable novelist, first novel was "The Spy", major work was "TheLeatherstocking Tales"
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James Fenimore Cooper
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tale about a journey into a mythical world(a forest), main character was Natty Bumppo
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The Leatherstocking Tales
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first American poet to win European reputation, thought that nature was the visible token of God's beauty and that man is able to "know God" by intuition and conscience
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William Cullen Bryant
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a view of death
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thanatopsis
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analyzing poetry, most common form is blank verse
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scansion
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form of poetry which consisted of five iambs, which went from unaccented to accented, and supposedly sounded closest to normal speech
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iambic pentameter
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born of wealthy New York merchants, was a big fan of satire, modified many books from German Romantic literature
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Wahsington Irving
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mockery of mankind and its institutions in order to improve mankind
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satire
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exaggeration to make a point
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hyperbole
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opposite of what one expects
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irony
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"History of New York"
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Washington Irving, main character is Diedrich Knickerbocker, a typical New Yorker
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"The Sketch Book"
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Washington Irving, legend of sleepy hallow, featuring Rip Van Winkle
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a character who is commonly associated with someone who "sleepwlaks through life"
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Rip Van Winkle
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"Tales of the Alhambra"
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Washington Irving, spanish legends
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legend of a man, ____, who sold his soul to the devil
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Faust legend, man was Johann Fausten
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tempter of Faust, devil's helper
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Mephistopholes
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"Rip Van Winkle"
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Washington Irving, followed tale of man who slept through Revolution and didn't notice changes in his life
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attended Bowdoin College in Maine, tauhgt at Harvard, most popular poet of 19th century, member of the "Brahmins"
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Boston's most influential families(Holmes, Lowells, Emersons, etc.)
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Brahmins
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"Evangeline: A Tale of Acadia"
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Henry Longfellow, 1847
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"The Song of Hiawatha"
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Henry Longfellow, derived from Finnish epic "Kalevala"
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"The Courtship of Miles Standish"
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Henry Longfellow, starred John Alden and Priscilla Mullens, a Frecnh hero
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Tales of a Wayside Inn"
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Henry Longfellow, modeled after "The Canterbury Tales"
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"The Cross of Snow"
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Henry Longfellow, his most famous sonnet
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14 lines of poetry
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sonnet
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from Cambridge, Massachusets, wrote "Breakfast table essays" from Atlantic Monthly magazine, original Brahmin, alos a physician
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Oliver Wendell holmes
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"Old Ironsides"
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Oliver Holmes, about the War of 1812 and patriotism
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"The Cahmbered Nautilis"
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Oliver Holmes, displayed the transcendentalist idea that man is capable of spiritual perfection
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symbol of good life
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nautilis
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From Cambridge, Massachustes, from a Bramin family, a diplomat and noted abolitionist, Editor of The Atlantic magazine
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James Russell Lowell
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"She Came and Went"
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James Lowell, romantic view of death and use of nature
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"The Vision of SirLaunfal"
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James Lowell, related to the Grail Myth
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idea that man should transced beyond its previous conceptions and look to God or the cosmos, reaction to 18th century Rationalism
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Transcendentalism
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From Concord, Massa., lecturer as well as writer, comtemporary of Wordsworth and Coleridge
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Self Reliance"
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Ralph Emerson, themes of envy=igorance, imitation=suicide, trusting oneself
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From Concord, Massa., harvard degree(disregarded the degree), spent to years at Walden Pond in a cabin, seeker of "truth and beauty"
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Henry David Thoreau
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"Walden"
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Henry David Thoreau, story about his life in the woods and his quest to live plainly
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"Resistance to Civil Government"
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Henry Thoreau, his thoughts on how governments should and could work
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story by Lawrence and Lee(authors of "Inherit the Wind") that tells about non-violent protest and uses Thoreau as an example
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"The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail"
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From Richmond, Virginia, lived in Baltimore, famous for poems and short stories, made heavy use of Gothic Romance, "Father of the Detective Story"
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Edgar Allen Poe
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"Tamerlane"
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Edgar Allen Poe, 1827
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"Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque"
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Edgar Allen Poe, 1831
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"Broadway Journal"
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Edgar Allen Poe, 1845
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type of writing which uses a distant setting, a sense of loneliness, and themes of death, decay, and the supernatural(classic examples are "Castle of Otranto", "Mysteries of Udolpho", "Frankenstein", and "Dracula")
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Gothic Romance
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deductive reasoning is also known as?
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Ratiocination
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19th century London detective story character, based off Oliver Wendell Holmes, so popular that many believe he actually existed
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Sherlock Holmes
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two types of stylistic writing devices are?
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poetry and prose
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"Masque of the Red Death"
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Edgar Allen Poe, an allegorical story which centers around the concept of the 7 ages of man(infancy, childhood, lover, soldier, justice, old age, and dementia and death)
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famous character of "The Masque of the Red Death", symbol of worldly power and prosperity
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Prince Prospero
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these men included colonists, the Pilgrims, and men who stepped away from England
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Separatists
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principle author of the Dec. of Independence
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Thomas Jefferson
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what is man's great equalizer?
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death
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what branch of Judaism is Asher Lev in, and where did he live as a boy?
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Haisitic Judaism, Brooklyn
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another name for the British flag
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union jap
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another name for American flag
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old glory
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present name of Acadie in Canada
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Nova Scotia
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author of Sherlock Holmes books
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Doyle
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theme of "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls"
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life/death
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another name for the USS Constitution
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Old Ironsides
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someone against slavery, James Lowell was one
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abolitionist
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comparison using "like" or "as"
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simile
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concept that man's soul is equal to the world's soul
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oversoul
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"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation"
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Henry Thoreau
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"The unexamined life is not worth living"
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Socrates
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concept of being yourself, you dance to a...
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different drummer
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another name of "Resistance to Civil Gov't"
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Civil Disobedience
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two genres of short stories written by Poe
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horror stories and ratiocination(detective) stories
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a contrasting character, Dr. Watson is this to Sherlock Holmes
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foil
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the only painting on the test, compared to Mona Lisa
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"Girl with a Pearl Earring"
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golden city, "gilded one"
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Eldorado
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know quotes from which Poe poem?
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"Annabel Lee"
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"Human kind cannot bearmuch reality"
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T.S. Eliot
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a mysterious double
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doppleganger
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protagonist of "The Scarlet Letter"
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Hester Prynne
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"A" in "The Scarlet Letter" stands for what?
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Adultery
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dangerous woman
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Femme Fatale
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loss of dreams
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disillusionment
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corruptibility of power, single-minded madness
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monomania
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"I would prefer not to..."
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Bartleby
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position of non-existence
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fetal position
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lived in Salem, Massa., changed name because grandfather was involved in witch trials, went to Bowdoin College, involved in Puritan tradition, themes of guilt and secrecy and intellectual and moral pride
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Hawthorne
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where Hawthorne lived for a short period of time
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Brook Farm
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"Twice Told Tales"
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Hawthorne
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"Mosses from an Old Manse"
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Hawthorne
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"The Scarlet Letter"
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Hawthorne
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"House of the Seven Gables"
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Hawthorne
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"The Blithedale Romance"
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Hawthorne
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"The Minister's Black Veil"
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Hawthorne
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"Rappaccini's Daughter"
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Hawthorne
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protagonist of "Rappaccini's Garden"
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Giovani Guasconte
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the roses in Rappaccini's Garden are what?
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mithridatic
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Rap's Garden could be compared to what?
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Garden of Eden
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from New York City, "Dark Man" of American letters, close friend of Hawthorne, tragic vision of life
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Melville
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Typee, Omoo, Mardi"
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Melville
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"Moby Dick"
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Melville
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father of Arab race, referred to in Moby Dick
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Ishmael
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noble savage of Moby Dick
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queequeeq
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what are the two qualities of all men's hearts?
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blindness, desires of heart
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protagonist of Moby Dick
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Ahab
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"We are what we pretend; therefore, be careful what we pretend"
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Kurt Vonnegut
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Pierre, or the Ambiguities"
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Melville
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"The Piazza Tales"
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Melville
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subtitle of "The Piazza Tales"
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A story of wall street
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Bartleby could be considered a ____ double
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psychological
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"The Confidence Man"
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Melville
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"Billy Budd"
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Melville
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"Sinner in the Hands of an Angry God"
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Jonathon Edwards
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Sherlock Holmes's most famous book
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
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"The Canterbury Tales"
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Chaucer
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"Fall of the House of Usher'
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Poe
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