 American Lit Warm-Up: Paraphrase the following sentence: John Brown embraced abolitionist views and spent the remainder of his life fighting against the enslavement of humanity.

 John Brown embraced abolitionist views and spent the remainder of his life fighting against the enslavement of humanity. (replace keywords with synonyms)  John Brown accepted anti-slavery ideas and spent the rest of his years protesting against the enforced servitude of human beings. (rearrange sentence structure)  John Brown’s acceptance of anti-slavery ideas led him to spend the rest of his years protesting against the enforced servitude of human beings.

 Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville were known as anti- Transcendentalists or Dark Romantics  Had much in common with Transcendentalists:  Focus on the imagination and spirituality  Fascination with nature and its power, but emphasized the negative aspects  Explored conflicts between good and evil, psychological effects of guilt and sin, and madness

Anti- Transcendentalists Nathaniel Hawthorne Herman Melville Edgar Allan Poe

 Best known for Moby- Dick, a novel about one man’s obsessive, doomed mission to hunt the great white whale  Themes include the relationship between man and nature, fate vs. free will, revenge, and madness

 Considered the father of the detective story and the modern horror story  Many mysteries surround his life and death  Best known for short stories such as The Tell-Tale Heart and poetry including “The Raven”

 Best known for The Scarlet Letter, a novel set in the Puritan period in New England.  Explores themes of sin and redemption, guilt, religion, and adultery

 “Go to the Grave”  “The Darken’d Veil”  “Earthly Pomp”  “Address to the Moon”  “The Ocean”  Your Task (with a partner):  Identify and define 5 unfamiliar words from your chosen poem  Identify three examples of figurative language (simile, metaphor, personification, allusion, etc.)  Complete a line-by-line paraphrase of the four best lines from the poem  Write a one-sentence statement of the poem’s theme

 List three things that all of the poems we read today have in common.