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| the belief that God gave us reason to solve problems and left us to solve them ourselves |
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| the belief that we can arrive at truth through reason |
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| who delivered the "Speech in the Virginia Convention" |
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| refering to other sources of literature |
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| whats the difference between connotation and denotation? |
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connotation: meaning behind the words, loaded words
denotation: dictionary definition |
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-circular reasoning
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| traits of the "Romantics" |
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| -intuition and imagination-individual- nature untouched- emotions |
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| what are the divisions of poetry? |
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| fireside poets, transcendentalists, and the dark romantics |
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| Name the 4 fireside Poets |
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| Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, Bryant |
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| name the transcendentalists |
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| what did Longfellow write? |
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| The Psalm of Life, the Cross of Snow and The Tide Rises The Tide Falls |
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| a break in the line, like a comma or natural pause |
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| Chambered Nautillus and Old Ironsides |
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| what boat is being described in Old Ironsides- Holmes? |
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| The Devil and Tom Walker, History of NY, The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. |
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| The fall of the House of Usher and The Raven |
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| consists of verse with end rhyme and usually regular meter |
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| consists of unrhymed iambic pentameter |
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| consists of lines that do not have a regular meter or rhyme |
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| group of verses whose division is based on thought or form |
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2 lines of verse
3 lines of verse
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| couplet.triplet.quatrain.quintet. sestet.septet.octave |
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| regular movement in a line achieved through meter |
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| similarity of sound existing btw. 2 words |
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| similarity occurring at the end of 2 or more lines |
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| similarity in the same line |
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| pattern in which rhyme occurs |
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| repetition of initial consonant sounds in 2 or more words in a line |
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| uses of words to repeat natural sound (crash, whisper) |
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| repetition of one or more phrases or lines at intervals |
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| comparison using like or as |
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| comparison without the use of like or as |
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| giving human characteristics to inanimate objects, ideas, animals |
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| exaggeration for the sake of emphasis; not to be taken literally |
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| addressing someone or something, usually not present, as though present |
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| word or image that signifies something beyond what is literally presented |
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| expresses speaker's feelings, attitudes |
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| dramatic situation- 4 questions to help determine dramatic situation |
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| circumstances of speaker-whos speaking-to whom is he speaking-what are circumstances-how does situation contribute to the meaning of the poem |
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