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| 8923871513 | conciliatory tone | how that you are willing to end a disagreement with someone | 0 | |
| 8923879388 | parallel structure | is the repetition of a chosen grammatical form within a sentence. By making each compared item or idea in your sentence follow the same grammatical pattern | 1 | |
| 8923887157 | subject, occasion, audience, purpose, speaker | soaps | 2 | |
| 8923903974 | Romanticism | A movement during the early to mid 1900s that was a reaction to the Enlightenment. Encouraged finding the truth through intuition and emotion and emphasized the individual OVER society | 3 | |
| 8923920354 | Transcendentalism | -a movement within transcendentalism Ideals: Intuition is the guide to universal true God is all loving MAN IS INNATELY GOOD God can be found in nature; humans become aware of their spirituality in nature WRITERS: Thoreau Emerson | 4 | |
| 8923941587 | anti- Transcendentalism | -small movement in opposition to transcendentalism Ideals: There is a very fine line between good and evil and humans can go back and forth Nature is not good God can only be found through good works and life experience -the mind is less trustworthy than the heart -sins are real and their effects are long lasting WRITERS: Hawthorne "the Scarlett Letter" | 5 | |
| 8923967235 | Emerson | Author of "Self Reliance" Transcendentlist | 6 | |
| 8923970669 | "Self Reliance" | -written by Emerson -man= good society= bad -we have a moral responsibility to disobey immoral laws -criticism of conformity, habitual/thoughtless actions and wasted thoughts -society as a "joint stalk company" -famous theologians being misunderstood -"no law can be sacred to me but that of my nature" -society never advances -cant find yourself traveling | 7 | |
| 8923985184 | Thoreau | Author of "Where I Lived, What I lived for" and "Civil Disobedience" Transcendentlist | 8 | |
| 8923990869 | "Where I Lived, What I lived for" | -written by Thoreau THEMES: -dont just go through the motions of life -nature is an escape from the influence of society IDEAS: To understand what is wonderful and sublime about life, you don't have to go off into distant corners of the earth. The sublime is right here, right now, in the everyday. Whoa. Newspapers never tell us anything new, according to Thoreau. He wants to dig "through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearance" and get to reality. Journalist, indeed. -waking up -nature | 9 | |
| 8924008549 | Hawthorne | Anti- Transcendentalist Author of "The Scarlett Letter" | 10 | |
| 8924017703 | "The Scarlett Letter" | Written by Hawthorne THEMES: -humans can become evil (chillingsworth) -dont try to be or appear perfect, embrace yourself including your sins SYMBOLS: -Pearl= living incarnation of sin -Scarlett Letter= sin | 11 | |
| 8924036036 | Miller | Author of "Death of a Salesmen" Obsessed with morals | 12 | |
| 8924054537 | "Death of a Salesmen" | -Written by Arthur Miller -Morality play -It is immoral to amass wealth at the expense of other human beings, and it is immoral to use wealth as a measure of a person's worth -individualism vs. conformity -criticism of the American dream SYMBOLISM -The Loman family represents the US -Flute: nature, possibility, freedom | 13 | |
| 8924058484 | Morality play | Play that puts the morality of a time on trial ex: Death of a Salesmen | 14 | |
| 8924079756 | Salinger | Author of "Catcher in the Rye" | 15 | |
| 8924117692 | "Catcher in the Rye" | Written by Salinger THEMES: -Negative tone but positive theme -everyone experiences pain, but we much help each other over through it SYMBOLISM: -Hunting hat: protection of innocence -Phoebe, Allie, Jane: innocence -Carousel: permanence -used paradox and stream of consciousness | 16 | |
| 8924143800 | stream of consciousness | inner monologue | 17 | |
| 8924150401 | "Civil Disobedience" | Written by Thoreau after he was jailed for not paying a poll tax -harshly criticizes the American government especially about the Mexican War - Argues it is a citizens duty to disobey immoral laws THEMES: -the biggest obstacle to morality is those who know something is wrong but choose to do nothing -an unjust law is no law at all | 18 | |
| 8924171642 | "Letters from Birmingham Jail" | -Written by Martin Luther King in jail, in response to an open letter by clergy of different religions who criticize the peaceful protests and sit ins. King explains why the Civil Rights movement CANT WAIT -HUGE use of rhetorical strategies | 19 |
