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What was the main idea of Fantopsias?
- Once you die you become a part of nature
- (eternal)
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What was Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poem?
The raven
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What did Nathaniel Hawthorne write?
The Scarlett Letter
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Who was the father of the Fireside Poets?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Where does the narration change in the Skeleton in Armor?
Line 17
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What was the moral of the Dr. Heidger's Experiment?
People cannot change
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What type of writing did Walt Whitman do?
Free verse
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Why couldn't Thomas Paine use Allusions in his speech?
He was talking to uneducated soldiers and farmers
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Who wrote Aphorisims?
Ben Franklin
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Who wrote "The Life You Save May be your Own"
Flannery O'connor
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Who wrote "My Bondage, My Freedom"
Fredrick Douglass
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What were the 2 main points of "My Bondage, My Freedom"
- It is unnatural to be slave as it is to be a slave owner
- Once you become educated you it's hard to turn away from it.
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Who was the protagonist in Catch in the Rye
Pheobe
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Who wrote Catcher in the Rye?
Salinger
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When did Catcher in the Rye take place?
1950's
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In The Old Man in the Sea what does he dream of?
Lions
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In The Old Man in the Sea, what did he call the ocean?
- Lamare
- (he always said it was a woman)
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In The Scarlett Letter, was Chillingworth seeking revenge?
Yes
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In The Scarlett Letter, did Hester always feel bitter towards Pearl?
No
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Who wrote "Story of an Hour"
Kate Chopin
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Who wrote "Where is Here"
Joyce Chopin
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Who wrote "The Lottery"
Shirley Jackson
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What did Washington Irving write?
Devil and Tom Walker
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What did Edith Wharton write?
April Showers
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Who wrote Old Iron Sides?
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Who wrote Thanatopsis?
William Cullen Bryant
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Who wrote Snowbound?
John Greenleaf Wittier
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What did Ralph Waldo Emerson write?
(2)
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Believed that human senses can know only physical reality
Transcendentalism
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Who wrote A Growing Nation?
Thoreau
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What was Walt Whitman's nickname?
The Bard of Democracy
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Poetry that has irregular meter and line length
Free verse
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What is the theme of the Old Man in the Sea?
A man can be defeated, but not destroyed
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A concise statement expressing a universly accepted truth
Aphorism
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He could use Allusions because he had a very well educated audience
Patrick Henry
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What did Abraham Lincoln write?
The Gettysburg Address
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How much is Four Score and 7 years ago?
87 years
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What did Emily Dickinson write?
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What did William Bradford write?
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What did Stephen Crane write?
The Red Badge of Courage
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What did Ambrose Bierce write?
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
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