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100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 300 400 500 200 Literary Periods Writers Imagery Literary Devices
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Predestination Colonialism 100
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200 Heredity or Environment is powerful Naturalism
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300 Optimistic about man and potential Transcendentalism
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400 Focus on distinctive speech patterns and dialects Realism
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500 A focus on the common good. Revolutionary
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100 Not a Romantic writer: Poe, London, Irving, Hawthorne Jack London
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200 Name the Transcendentalists who wrote “American Scholar” and “Civil Disobedience” Emerson and Thoreau
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300 Wrote “Speech to the Second Virginia Convention” Patrick Henry
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400 Wrote “The Fall of the House of Usher” Edgar Allan Poe
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500 “Of Plymouth Plantation” William Bradford
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100 Nathaniel Hawthorn
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200 “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” John Edwards
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300 “The Open Boat” Stephen Crane
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400 Romantic writer who used folklore and superstition in his famous short story “Rip Van Winkle” Washington Irving
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500 Anne Bradstreet
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100 For the life of him, he couldn't figure why these East Enders called themselves black. He kept looking and looking, and the colors he found were gingersnap and light fudge and dark fudge and acorn and butter rum and cinnamon and burnt orange. But never licorice, which, to him, was real black. (excerpt from Maniac Magee) Visual
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200 "The cold water touched her skin and she felt a shudder run down her spine." Tactile
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300 "She smelled as sweet as roses." "I was awakened by the strong smell of a freshly brewed coffee." Olfactory
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400 "With a wild rattle and clatter, and an inhuman abandonment of consideration not easy to be understood in these days, the carriage dashed through streets and swept round corners, with women screaming before it, and men clutching each other and clutching children out of its way. At last, swooping at a street corner by a fountain, one of its wheels came to a sickening little jolt, and there was a loud city from a number of voices, and the horses reared and plunged." (excerpt from 'A tale of two cities' by Charles Dickens) Kinesthetic
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500 Tumbling through the ocean water after being overtaken by the monstrous wave, Mark unintentionally took a gulp of the briny, bitter mass, causing him to cough and gag." Gustatory
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100 Simile
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200 Allusion
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300 Onomatopoeia
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400 “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” Understatement
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500 "Blue Moon, you saw me standing alone Without a dream in my heart Without a love of my own. (Lorenz Hart, "Blue Moon") Apostrophe
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100 Metaphor
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200 "It rained on his lousy tombstone, and it rained on the grass on his stomach. It rained all over the place." (Holden Caulfield in J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, 1951) Anaphora
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300 Parody
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400 “Damned Human Race” Satire
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500 Personification
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