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who wrote "Johnny Got His Gun": Dalton Trumbo
what are the types of prose writing?: expository, persuasive, and narrative
What are the four types of sentences?: imperative, exclamatory, interrogative, declarative
what does the A in the Scarlet Letter symbolize? For Hester? For Dimmesdale? For Winthrop?: able, adultery, angel for Gov. Winthrop's death, Arthur's adultery, alienation, affair. For Dimmesdale it is anguish and atonement.
Where does the scarlet A appear?: Hester's dress, her grave, and in the sky.
What does the rosebush symbolize in the Scarlet Letter?: It is red and stands for hope, Pearl says she was plucked from the rosebush.
What does the scaffold symbolize in the Scarlet Letter?: Stands for the cruel puritan code, Hester looks down on the Puritans, where the family is first together in second scaffold scene.
What does the forest symbolize in the Scarlet Letter?: it symbolizes evil, wickedness, where Mistress Hibbins goes, where Hester meets Dimmesdale at and he comes out changed.
What do the kisses symbolize in the Scarlet Letter?: Dimmesdale kisses Pearls brow she excepts it because he helps her, in the forest Pearl washes off his kiss, she kisses him on the scaffold to show he excepts her.
What does Mistress Hibbins symbolize?: Witchcraft
What does the sun do and symbolize in the Scarlet LetteR?: It shines down on PEarl, but not Hester until she removes the A in the forest.
Who wrote 'A Description of New England?': John Smith
What are the three areas of writing?: poetry, prose, drama
Who wrote 'To My Dear and Loving Husband?': Anne Bradstreet
an ideal place or state?: utopia
Who writes and what is plain style?: The puritans; not fancy or ornate, no figures of speech.
What did plain style writers write?: sermons, diaries, and other personal narratives.
Important writers in the Early American Period: John Smith, William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet
Key ideas from the Early American period of writing?: discovery, grace and salvation, utopia, democratic principles, the american lanscape
What are themes of the Early American writing period?: guilt, pride, and alienation
Early American writing focused primarily on...: nature and religion. ie creation stories
Who wrote 'Letters of a woman Homesteader?': Elinore Pruit Stewart
What five 'i's is romanticism classified by?: imagination, intuition, idealism, inspiration, individuality
six qualities of neoclassicism?: reason, moderation, science, society, pragmatism, cool wit
six qualities of romanticism (beside the five 'i's)?: intuition, excess, nature, self, idealism, intense feeling
what does enlightenment mean?: process of acquiring new knowledge or understanding particularly on a spiritual level.
What are three themes of neoclassicism and the age of enlightenment?: justice, liberty, and equality
Who wrote 'Common Sense?': Thomas Paine
Examples of writing in the time of neoclassicism?: politcal pamphlets, travel writing/nature, essays, speeches, aphorisms, propaganda
In the time of neoclassicism writing became more...: secular (free of religion) and political
important writers in the Reason and Revolution period (neoclassicism and enlightenment)?: Thomas Paine, Ben Franklin, Patrick Henry, Jefferson, webster
Key ideas of Reason and Revolution (neoclassicism and enlightenment)?: representative gov., natural rights, freedom, seperation of church and state, american identity, national literature and language
What was the Romanticism a reaction to?: the previous era of reason
Examples of literary works from the Romantic time period?: short stories, novels, poetry, and gothic literature
Who wrote 'The Devil and Tom Walker?': Washington Irving
Who wrote 'I Hear America Singing' and 'Song of Myself'?: Walt Whitman
Who were the improtant writers of the Romantic time period?: Irving, Whitman, Poe
Key ideas from the Romantic time period?: Gothicism, nationalism, and individualism
What was the New England Renaissance?: Transcendentalism (taking romanticism a step forward.)
Many literary works of transcendentalism includes...: songs, poems, symbolism, essays, and philosophies
What is Transcendentalism?: when one goes beyond limits and above others.
Three big beliefs of Transcendentalism?: - direct correspondence between the universe and the individual - people transcend the world and discover union with oversoul that unites us all - follow your intuition, however divergent from the social norm and all people are inherently good
Key ideas of the Renaissance/Transcendentalism period?: spiritualism, transcendentalism, individualism, optimism, idealism, NATURE
Who wrote Walden?: Henry David Thoreau
Who wrote Nature and Self-Reliance?: Waldo Emerson
Important writers during the New England Renaissance?: Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Sojourner Truth
What two movements were Transcendentalists involved in?: abolition and women's rights
Impotant writers of the Conflict and Celebration period?: Douglass, Lincoln, Walt Whitman
key ideas from the Conflict and Celebration period?: civil war, freedom vs. slavery, the american dream
Who wrote 'O Captain, My Captain?': Walt Whitman
Gothic setting?: medivel setting, old castle with secret passages, trap doors, darkness, impenetrable walls, isolation
Gothic atmosphere? (mood and tone): sense of mystery, suspense, darkness, oppressiveness, fear, arouses terror
Gothic themes?: focus on the darker side of human nature: betrayal, revenge, insanity, superstition
Gothic victim?: vulnerable, helpless charcter in danger such as a woman
Gothic villain?: threat that is associated with evil whose powers are immense and/or supernatural
Gothic stories also inclide...: omens, visions, nightmares, and supernatural
Transcendentalist educator?: Bronson Alcott
Transcendentalist feminist writer?: Margaret Fuller
Tone?: writer's attitude towards the material and/or his readers
Mood?: emotions the readers feel while reading or after reading
Blank verse poem?: does not need to rhyme but is written in iambic pentameter
Free verse poem?: no rules of rhyme or rhythm
lyric poem?: personal display of emotion with musical quality
anaphora?: deliberate repitition of a word or phrase at the begginning of two or more lines
3 line stanza 4 line stanza 5 line stanza 6 line stanza 7 line stanza: tercet quatrain quintet sestet septet
Who wrote 'The Open Boat?': Stephen Crane
spacing on MLA paper?: double-spaced
margins on MLA paper?: one-inch all around
page numbers on MLA paper?: pages numbered consecutively with last name on right side
header is _______ inch from top?: half-inch
MLA paper: upper left-hand corner includes?: full name, teacher, course, date
MLA paper: date order?: day, month, year
who wrote 'At the French Front' to the New York Sun?: Alan Seeger
Who wrote The Soldier and what was its concept?: Rupert Brooke, Noble Expectations
Who wrote Munition Wages and what was its concept?: Madeline Ida Bedford, Bittersweet peace
Siegfried Sassoon wrote in what WW1 concept?: harsh realities, and bittersweet peace
who wrote suicide in the trenches?: sassoon, harsh realities
who wrote Dulce Et Decorum Est and what is its concept?: Wilfred Owen, harsh realities
Who wrote 'The Hollow Men' and what is its concepts?: T.S. Eliot, harsh realities
Who wrote look at this) and what is its concept?: e.e. cummings, harsh realities
who wrote Champs d'Honneur, [All Armies Are the Same...], and To Good Guys Dead? What is the concept he writes with?: Ernest Hemingway, harsh realities
Who wrote Survivors? What is the concept: Sassoon, harsh realities
who wrote 'Repression of War Experience?' what concept does it fit in?: Sassoon, harsh realities and bittersweet peace
What concept is 'johnny got his gun?': harsh realities and bittersweet peace

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