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first American work widely read on both sides of the Atlantic

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The Sketch Book

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wrote The Sketch Book

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Washington Irving

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popularized the new literary spirit of romanticism which helped America win literary independence from Great Britain

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the Sketch Book

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3 Knickerbocker authors

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Washington Irving, James Cooper, William Bryant

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4 New England School Poets

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Whittier, Longfellow, Holmes, Lowell

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romantic authors who were located in New York

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Knickerbockers

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romantic authors who were located in Boston, Mass.

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New England School Poets

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short story Knickerbocker

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Washington Irving

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poem Knickerbocker

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William Bryant

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novelist Knickerbocker

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James Cooper

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complex, described with details that distinguish him as a particular individual; multifaceted

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round character

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one with little individuality and whose mindset the reader knows little about; two-dimensional

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flat character

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one with whom the reader identifies or for whom he has favorable feelings

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sympathetic character

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one with whom the reader cannot identify or for whom he has strong feelings of dislike

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unsympathetic character

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wrote Rip Van Winkle

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Irving

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theme of Rip Van Winkle

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bad marriage compares to George III’s bad rule

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describes George III’s rule in Rip Van Winkle as ________

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petticoat tyranny/petticoat government

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4 characteristics of romantic literature

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  1. imagination
  2. distance
  3. individualism
  4. nature
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created the first American hero

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James Cooper

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America’s first novelist, who wrote the Deerslayer

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James Cooper

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4 qualities of a romantic hero

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  1. isolated from society’s corruption
  2. unwavering moral goodness
  3. ability/chivalry in battle
  4. period of testing or initiation
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new name for the Deerslayer

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Hawkeye

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last Knickerbocker poet

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William Bryant

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Bryant used _______ as a moral teacher in his works

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nature

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America's first great poet of nature
Bryant
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a poetic device that carries a sentence or phrase over the end of a line
enjambment
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a pause in the middle of a line of poetry, usually indicated by a mark of punctuation
caesura
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an address to an absent person, an abstraction, an inanimate object, or a nonhuman entity
apostrophe
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a person, place, thing, or idea within a narrative or poem that means something in addition to itself
symbol
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______ means meditation on death
Thanatopsis
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wrote Thanatopsis
Bryant
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2 reassurances in Thanatopsis
1. joining kings/people who have already died, so you won't be alone 2. everyone is going to die at some point
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wrote To a Waterfowl
Bryant
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To A Waterfowl symbolizes
bird's flight connects to the author's solitary journey through life
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true or false: in To a Waterfowl, there is a spiritual application
true
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most versatile of all the New England School poets
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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author whose works focus on America's past
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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descriptive words or phrases that appeal to sense perceptions to create an impression
imagery
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an imaginative comparison of two dissimilar things, which can be implied or stated, brief or extended
metaphor
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a brief poem expressing the personal views of a single speaker on a particular topic
lyric
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fourteen lines written in iambic pentameter
sonnet
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poem about the brevity of life
Psalm of Life
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wrote Psalm of Life and Mezzo Cammin
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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imagery in Psalm of Life
footprints = legacy
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lyric poem
Mezzo Cammin (hill is symbolic, so is waterfall)
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Quaker author
Whittier
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short poem expressing lament or mourning on someone's death
dirge
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Ichabod was written to criticize who and what?
Daniel Webster with his speech supporting the Compromise of 1850, which supported slavery
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wrote Ichabod and First Day Thoughts
Whittier
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biblical allusion in Ichabod comes from this verse
1 Samuel 4:21
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characteristics of the Quaker Sunday
1. called Sunday "First Day" 2. silent
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author who wrote satires that ridiculed other authors
James Lowell
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corrective ridicule in literature, or a work that is designed to correct an evil by means of ridicule
satire
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genial, generally light-hearted satire
Horatian satire
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satire that is biting, savage, and more serious in intent
Juvenalian satire
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in A Fable for Critics, these people are described as what? 1. Bryant 2. Cooper 3. Lowell
1. cold, lacks emotion and warmth 2. characters lack dimension, stick figures 3. uses too many techniques, too preachy
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wrote A Fable for Critics and The Courtin
James Lowell
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narrated The Courtin
Hosea Biglow
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characters in The Courtin
Zekle and Huldy
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Hosea Biglow's dialect was ________
New England
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2 things dividing national optimism
1. sectionalism 2. cultural provincialism (inferior quality of literature)
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2 things that kept American literature from growing
1. lack of copyright laws 2. low expectation of American readers
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2 schools of thought for improving literature
1. write strikingly American literature 2. universal appeal
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two ways distance is used
time and place
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short and one unified thought
short story
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year Origin of Species was written
1859
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put nature as God
transcendentalism
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rejects God as the head
Deism
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doctor
Holmes
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Old Ironsides protests this ship's dismantling
USS Constitution
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speaker's meaning differs from what he expresses in words
verbal irony
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striking comparison carried out in detail
conceit
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