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Period that used themes of relationship with society.
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Poem by Anna Bradstreet that talks about her husband and what would happen when she passes away.
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Sermon written by Jonathan Edwards.
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Speech to convince the Virginia Convention to form a militia to fight the British.
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Document that made it so American Colonies could break from British rule.
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Pamphlets written during the American revolution (1776-1783)
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Speech written by Benjamin Franklin but wasn't read by him as he was sick at the time of the Convention.
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Literary period that had themes of coming of age.
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A short story about Tom Walker.
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An essay about humans not accepting the beauty of nature.
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A man in his home is tormented by a raven.
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A fictional story. A woman is punished for acts of adultery.
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Emily Dickinson's poetry collection.
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The story tells the adventures of wandering sailor Ishmael.
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A man goes to the woods to isolate himself from society.
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A poetry collection of Walt Whitman's works.
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Realists wrote about ordinance characters in ordinary situations.
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A poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The theme of human endurance in the face of overwhelming natural forces
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A boy named Huck Finn and all his adventures he experienced
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Writers focused on the distinctive qualities of their geographical setting
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The inner experience of a soldier fleeing combat
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Edna Pontellier and her struggle to reconcile her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood in the South
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A dog named Buck who was stolen from his californian home and sent to Alaska where he learns to survive and become a leader in the wild
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A young Bostonian named Clark receives word that his Aunt Georgiana is coming to visit from Nebraska to settle an estate
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Post world war II made American writers lose the optimistic view of American life.
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E.E. Cummings
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T.S. Eliot
One of T.S. best works, a 64 pg poem -
This era was expressed primarily by African Americans. They expressed their feelings and their personal experiences through this time.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby was a novel that described what F. Scott thought to be the downfall of American life. -
Ernest Hemingway
This book is about a group of British and American expatriates who travel to Pamplona to watch the Running of the Bulls. -
Countee Cullen
This poem described the early life of African Americans. -
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes publishes this poem in 1926. The poem was famed in the Harlem Renaissance period. -
It is the story of the death of Addie Bundren and her family's quest and motivations to honor her wish
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It tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades
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Zora Neale Hurston
This was one of the first books written by an African American at this time. -
The novel focuses on the Joads, a poor family of tenant farmers driven from their Oklahoma home who set out to California for a better future
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The novel tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, a black American youth living in utter poverty
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John Hersey
John won the Pulitzer Prize for this novel. -
Post World war II era, Writers described their life during and after the war. Irony was a big part of writings during this time. Enlightment and a modernist approach to literature.
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It addresses many of the social and intellectual issues facing African-Americans early in the twentieth century
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William Golding
This book is about Golding's thoughts of what would happen if a group of British boys got stranded on an island. -
Flannery O'Connor
Was a collection of short stories written by O'Connor. -
A story about a major trial that goes on in Maycomb, Alabama
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James Joyce publishes This book in Febuary of 1922.
It goes through the life of Leopold Bloom
