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159 Cards in this Set
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The Negro Speaks
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Langston Hughes
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Cask of Amontillado setting?
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Venice
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Who wrote Flight?
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John Steinbeck
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Who wrote Hills Like White Elephants?
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Hemingway, Spain, about abortion
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1. Wrote poems Chicago, Big City of Show
2. Won 2 pulitzers one for Lincoln biography |
Carl Sandburg
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1. Poet and Playwright
2. First woman to win pulitzer 3. Best known poem "First Fig" |
Edna Millay
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Who wrote Love Song of Alfred Prufrock and The Wasteland?
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T.S. Eliot
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Who wrote poems Richard Cory and Miniver Cheevy?
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E.A. Robinson
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Who wrote Civil Disobedience and On Walden Pond?
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Thoreau
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Who wrote the poems Hiawatha, Paul Revere's Ride and Psalm of Life
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Longfellow
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Who Wrote history of New York, Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle?
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Washington Irving
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Who is the narrator in the Great Gatsby?
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Nick Carraway
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"Moral decay lies beneath the flashy veneer of New York high society"
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Edith Wharton
House of Mirth |
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Elegy
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Poem of rememberance or loss
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Who wrote Sketches of a Southern Life?
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Frances Harper
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Who wrote poem "The courtship of Miles Standish"
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Longfellow
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Who wrote Windy McPhersons Son, Many Marriages, and Marching Men?
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Sherwood Anderson
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Who wrote poems "The Enormous Room" and "Tulips and Chimneys"
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ee Cummings
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Who wrote Omoo, Typee, and Mardi?
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Herman Melville
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Famous for Speech at the Virginia Convention
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Patrick Henry
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Setting of "For whom the bell tolls"
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Spanish Civil War
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Who wrote The Bell Jar, Ariel, and The Colossus
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Sylvia Plath
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First American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
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Sinclair Lewis
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Who wrote Arrowsmith, Main Street and Babbit?
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Sinclair Lewis
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Who wrote House of Seven Gables and the Blithedale Romance?
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Hawthorne
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Famous for "Old Ironsides"
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, saved the USS Constitution
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1. American poet, did most of his work in England.
2. Eventually became a British citizen |
T.S. Eliot
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Who wrote the Narrative of the Captivity?
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Mary Rowlandson
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Wrote poems Love Song of Alfred Prufrock and the Wasteland?
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T.S. Eliot
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Who wrote Ethan Frome?
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Edith Wharton
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Who wrote Thanatopsis, To a Waterfowl and the Prairies?
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William Cullen Bryant
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Who wrote a Model of Christian Charity?
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John Winthrop
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Who wrote Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses?
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Mark Twain
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Who wrote The Harlem Dancer, The Lynching, and If We Must Die?
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Claude McKay
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Flannery O'Connor
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Good Country People
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Who wrote Divinity School Address, Self-Reliance and Experience?
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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William Bradford
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Of Plymouth Plantation
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Who wrote the poems "The Prologue" "The Author to Her Book" and "To My Dear Children?"
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Anne Bradstreet
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Here Follows Some Verses Upon the Burning of Our House?
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Anne Bradstreet
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Cotton Mather
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Magnalia Christi Americana
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Who wrote Goopherd Grapevine and The Wife of His Youth?
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Charles W Chesnutt
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Who wrote Winter Dreams and Babylon Revisited?
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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This author wrote Anti Phillipine-American War literature.
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Mark Twain
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The Yellow Wallpaper
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Who wrote At the 'Cadian Ball, The Storm, and Desirees Baby?
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Kate Chopin
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Who wrote "On the Immigration to to America and Peopling of the Western Country," "On Mr. Paine's Rights of Man," and "On the Religion of Nature?"
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Philip Freneau
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Daisy Miller: A Study
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Henry James
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Who is credited at having started the Harlem Renaissance?
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Claude McKay
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Created Yoknapatawpa County, Mississippi?
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William Faulkner
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Who wrote A Rose For Emily, That Evening Sun, and Barn Burning?
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William Faulkner
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Setting: Palace Hotel, Ft. Romper, Nebraska in the late 1800s
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The Blue Hotel, Stephen Crane
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Who wrote How it Feels to be Colored, and the Gilded Six Bits?
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Zora Neale Hurston
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Up from Slavery
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Booker T Washington
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Who wrote Bartelby the Scrivener and Benito Cereno?
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Herman Mellville
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New England Nun
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Mary E Wilkins
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An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge?
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Ambrose Bierce
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Who wrote Song of Myself, When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer, and Beat! Beat! Drums?
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Walt Whitman
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This author was a colorist on the Louisiana Creoles.
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Kate Chopin
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Restoration of Mrs. Mary
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Mary Rowlandson
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Who wrote A Negro Speaks of Rivers, Mother to Son, and Song for a Dark Night?
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Langston Hughes
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Letters From an American Farmer
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J. Hector St. John De Crovecoeur
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What 2 authors wrote about wealthy Americans?
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1. Edith Wharton
2. Henry James |
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Who wrote The Way to Wealth and Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America?
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Benjamin Franklin
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1. First famous Jewish-American writer.
2. Wrote inscription on the Statue of Liberty. |
Emma Lazarus
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Souls of Black Folks
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W.E.B. DuBois
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Who wrote General History of Virginia, New England and the Summer Isles, and Description of New England?
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John Smith
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Mr. Flood's Party
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E.A. Robinson
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Who wrote The Open Boat, Blue Hotel, and Episode of War
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Stephen Crane
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Cities of the Red Night
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Truman Capote
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In a Hollow of the Hills
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Bret Harte
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Setting: Northern Alabama during the Civil War
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An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge (Ambrose Bierce)
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Abraham Cahan
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Jewish-American writer
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Setting: Masquerade Ball during the plague years, Prince Prospero.
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The Masque of the Red Death
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Setting: Hero and Friend Toby jump ship in Marquesas islands and are captured by cannibals. Fayaway nurses hero, he chooses return to civilization.
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Typee (Melville)
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Who wrote Clotel, the first book by a black American writer?
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William Wells Brown
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Setting: New England boy stows away on a whaler, drifts toward South Pole in a canoe.
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The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym (Poe)
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Characters: King Media, Philosopher Babbalanja, poet Yoomy, and Historian Mohi?
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Mardi
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The Piazza Tales
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Herman Mellville
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Plot: Artist Bannadonna rivals god.
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The Bell Tower (Melville)
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Plot: Sketches based on the Galapagos Isles.
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The Enchanted Isles (Melville)
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Plot: A sea creature enlarges its shell as it grows.
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The Chambered Nautilus (O.W. Holmes)
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Plot: Man and his soul walk in woodland on Halloween following Venus, stopped by the door of a forgotten tomb.
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Ulalame (Poe)
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Plot: Shy man asks John Alden to woo Priscilla Mullins for him, she married John instead with his blessing
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The Courtship of Miles Standish (Longfellow)
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The Alhambra
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Washington Irving
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The Cambridge Poets
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1. Longfellow
2. Holmes 3. Whittier 4. Lowell |
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Plot: Colonel Pyncheon obtains land by accusing owner Matthew Maule of withcraft, jailed for murder committed by another man,spell broke through marriage.
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House of Seven Gables (Hawthorne)
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Democracy In America
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Alexis De Toqueville
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Includes Howe's Masquerade, The Grey Champion, The Great Carbuncle, and the Ministers Black Veil
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Twice-Told Tales (Hawthorne)
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Plot: Based on Brook Farm, Miles Coverdale narrates, Zenobia loves Hollingsworth who loves Priscilla.
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Blithedale Romance (Hawthorne)
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Captain My Captain
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Walt Whitman
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A History of New York by Deidrich Knickerbocker.
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Washington Irving
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Who wrote Ligeia and The Bells?
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Poe
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Tales of a Wayside Inn
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Longfellow
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Includes:
1. Paul Revere's Ride 2. Elizabeth 3. The battle of Carmilhan 4. The Saga of King Olaf |
Wayside Inn Tales
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The Wreck of the Hesperus
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Longfellow
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Includes Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon
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Annabell Lee
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Poe
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Includes Howe's Masquerade, The Grey Champion, The Great Carbuncle, and the Ministers Black Veil
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Twice-Told Tales (Hawthorne)
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Plot: Based on Brook Farm, Miles Coverdale narrates, Zenobia loves Hollingsworth who loves Priscilla.
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Blithedale Romance (Hawthorne)
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Captain My Captain
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Walt Whitman
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A History of New York by Deidrich Knickerbocker.
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Washington Irving
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Who wrote Ligeia and The Bells?
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Poe
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Tales of a Wayside Inn
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Longfellow
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Includes:
1. Paul Revere's Ride 2. Elizabeth 3. The battle of Carmilhan 4. The Saga of King Olaf |
Wayside Inn Tales
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The Wreck of the Hesperus
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Longfellow
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Includes Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon
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Annabell Lee
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Poe
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Wrote Biographies of Columbus and Washington
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Washington Irving
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History of New England
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John Winthrop
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Poems on Various Subjects Religious and Moral
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Phyllis Wheatley
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Brief History of the Pequod War
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John Mason
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Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America
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Anne Bradstreet
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An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences
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Increase Mather
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First newspaper published in Boston circa 1690
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Publick Occurences
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What was the first book published in America?
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The Bay Psalm Book (1640)
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Who wrote The Dismal Swamp and The History of the Dividing Line?
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William Byrd
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Who wrote the poem Huswifery?
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Edward Taylor
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Who wrote The Natural?
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Bernard Malamud
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Who wrote Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy?
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Theodore Dreiser
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Who wrote Stuart Little and Charlottes Web?
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E.B. White
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Who wrote the 4 novel series about John "Rabbit" Angstrom?
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John Updike
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Who wrote the poem Huswifery?
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Edward Taylor
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Who wrote Black Boy, Shall We Gather At the River and Native Son?
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Richard Wright
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Who wrote The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty?
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James Thurber
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Who wrote the poem Fog?
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Carl Sandburg
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Who wrote the book McTeague and the Octopus?
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Frank Norris
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Who wrote Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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Edward Albee
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Who wrote The Executioners Song?
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Norman Mailer
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Who wrote The Eighth Day, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, and Our Town?
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Thornton Wilder
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Who wrote the poem John Browns Body?
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Stephen Vincent Benet
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The Awakening
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Kate Chopin
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Maggie: A girl of the streets
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Stephen Crane
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The Age of Innocence
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Edith Wharton
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The House of Mirth
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Edith Wharton
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O Pioneers!
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Willa Cather
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One of Ours
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Willa Cather
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The Sound and the Fury
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William Faulkner
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Absalom Abasalom
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William Faulkner
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Sanctuary
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William Faulkner
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Invisible Man
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Ralph Ellison
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Native Son
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Richard Wright
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H.D.
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Hilda Doolittle
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What were the 2 most important settlements in New England?
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I. Plymouth colony
II. Massachusets Bay Colony |
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Flagship Arbella
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Massachusets Bay Colony (1630) (The Arbella Bay Covenant)
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Difference between Arbella compact and Mayflower compact?
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Mayflower compact advocated ties to England.
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Hallmarks of Puritans: (TULIP)
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I. Total Depravity-Original sin
II. Unconditional election-god saves chosen few. III. Limited atonement-Jesus died for chosen few. IV. Irrefutable grace-grace is freely given. V.Perseverence of saints-those elected by god can interpret gods law. |
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Gods grace is present in human action and natural phenomenon.
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Typology
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Saved believers can fall into temptation or sin
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Backsliding
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Function of Puritan writers: (3)
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I. Transform a mysterious god.
II. Make god more relevant to the universe. III. To glorify god |
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Style of puritan writing 2 P's
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I. Protestant-against ornateness.
II. Purposeful |
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Puritan reading public were:
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I. Literate
II. Well grounded in religion |
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Common themes in Puritan writing:
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I. Idealism-Religious and political
II. Pragmatism |
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Elegaic verse
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Puritan fascination with death
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A model of Christian Charity
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John Winthrop
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Preserved journal by John Winthrop detailing colony events down to the miniscule
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A History of New England
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New England's Plantation
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Rev Francis Higginson
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New England's Prospect
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William Wood
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Contemplations
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Anne Bradstreet
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The Day of Doom
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Michael Wigglesworth
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