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The Colonial Period
1600-1750
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Bradford
Plymouth Plantation
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Putitan Beliefs
- The Bible
- Predestination
- Origional Sin
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Jonathan Edwards
- "fire and brimstone sermons"
- "sinners in the hands of an angry God"
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Thomas Jefferson
'Declaration'
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Thomas Paine
- "the crisis"
- "common sense"
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Patrick Henry
"give me liberty or give me death!"
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Rene Descartes
"I think therefore I am"
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Ben Franklin
- THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- the pennsylvania gazette
- poor richards almanac
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IVy League
4 schools.....?
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Civilization is the great corruptor
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Samuel Coleridge
the willing suspension of disbelief
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Jean Rousseau
Noble Savage
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Knickerbocker School
Cooper,Bryant, Irving
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The Transcendentalists
Emerson, Thoreau
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The Brooding Romantics
Poe, Hawthorne, Melville
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The Fireside Poets
Longfellow, holmes, lowell
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The scarlet letter
Hawthorne
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James Cooper
- "the spy"
- "last of the mohicans"
- "featherstocking tales"
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Natty Bumppo
Protagonist of leatherstocking tales
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william bryant
Thanatopsis----view of death
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scansion
analyzing poetry
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Iambic Pentameter
blank verse
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Irving
"Rip Van Winkle"--SLEEP
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satire
- mockery of mankind so to improve
- -exageration (hyperbole)
- -irony
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mephistopheles
devil's agent
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British/ American FLAG
union jack/old glory
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Longfellow
- "The courtship of miles standish"
- The tide rises the tide falls
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Brahmins
- rich wealthy influential
- Kennedys
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abba abba cde cde
ryme scheme
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Old ironsides--uss constitution
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symbol of good life
nautilus
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Lowell
- abolitionist
- "she came and went"
- "the vision of sir lannfal"
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mans soul = world soul
OVERSOUL
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gleam of light--intuition
self-relience
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Emerson
Self Reliance--Envy is ignorance, imatation is suicide
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Thoreau
- the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation
- The unexamined life is not worth living
- "Walden"
- Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity
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Edgar Allan Poe
- Father of the detective story
- "Fall of the house of usher"
- "Bells"
- "Annabell Lee"
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Gothic Romance
- death decay and the supernatural
- (Frankenstein and dracula)
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Horror
Ratiocination
- Gothic Romance
- Deductive Reasoning
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Authur Doyle
- Sherlock Holmes
- hound of baskervilles
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foil
contrasting character
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professor moriarty
sherlock's arch-enemy
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macabre
peroccupation with death
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T.S. Eliot
the human kind cannot bear much reality
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Hawthorn
- The scarlet letter
- minister's black veil
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Dissillusionment
loss of dreames
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Moby Dick
- "Call me Ishmael"
- Captain Ahab
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Ying and Yang
Balance of Life
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Death is the great equalizer
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