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she is as pretty as a flower
What is a "simile"
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This movement held that every individual can reach ultimate truths through spiritual intuition, which transcends reason and sensory experience.
What is "Transcendentalism"
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Brainstorming, diagramming your thoughts with a web or other visual aid, and outlining those ideas for a writing activity.
what is "prewriting"
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This author's poetry was mainly shaped by his abilty to absorb and comprehend everything he observed. One of his most famous poems is "leaves of grass"
Who is "Walt Whitman"
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A blossoming of African American culture, particularly in the creative arts and the most influential movement in African American literary history.
What is the "Harlem Renaissance"
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Alice’s aunt ate apples and acorns around August.
What is "alliteration"
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this movement is a revolt of rationalism. Writers glorified nature and celebrated individuality. their treatment of subject was emotional rather than analytic.
What is "romanticism"
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the central idea or lesson of a text
What is "theme"
200
This author dedicated himself to testing the Transcendentalist philosophy through personal experience. Throughout his life he explored the spiritual relationship between humanity and nature supporting his political and social beliefs.
Who is "Henry David Thoreau"
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a time period in which many innocent women were accused of being witches and were exicuted
What is "Salem Witch Trials"
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the sky is falling
What is "personification"
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This movement began in the 17th century, which held that we can arrive at truth by using our reason rather than relying on the authority of the past, on the authority of the church, or on intuition.
What is "rationalism"
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the authors attitude in a piece of writing
What is "tone"
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This author expresses his beliefs in individuality and in humanity's spiritual connection to nature. The young people of his time were most receptive to his work.
Who is "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
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"And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons."
What is the "emancipation proclamation"
400
A rich man is no richer than a poor man.
What is a "paradox"
400
a term for the bold new experimental styles and forms that swept the arts during the first and third of the twentieth century
What is "modernism"
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a literary genre based on imagination and not necessarily on fact. Short stories and novels are examples.
What is fiction
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This author is an African American writer who emerged from the Harlem Renaissance. He experimented with a variety of forms and techniques and often tried to re-create the rhythms of contemporary jazz.
Who is "Langston Hughes"
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an order to show respect to all of the soldiers that perished in the battle of gettysburgh
What is the gettysburgh address
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the crown holds all the power
What is "metonymy"
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a term for the dominant trend in the arts since 1945
What is "post-modernism"
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a literary genre based on fact. Essays, editorials, and biographies are examples
What is non-fiction
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This author wrote thousands of poems but only 7 of them were published after her death. She used an eccentric style of punctuation and irregular meter and rhyme.
Who is "Emily Dickinson"
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Broadly defined as "the faithful representation of reality" or "verisimilitude,"
What is realism