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Was a religious reform movement that arose within the Church of England in the late sixteenth century.
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Potrays symbolism, compares her love to something that cannot be compared to.
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This had to do with the Great Awakening, Emphasized the belief that hell is a real place.
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It was the Age of Enlightment.
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Speech where Patrick Henry gave his famous quote , "Give Me Liberty Or Give Me death"
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Theme - The American Dream.
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From the American Crisis is about the American Revolution.
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Speech of the final draft of the Constitution.
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Was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe.
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The Raven is a poem about a talking raven that visits a lover that is sad over the loss of his love.
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Regionalism is the tendency among certain authors to write about specific geographical areas. (speech, customs, beliefs, and history)
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The Scarlet letter is about Hawthorne's concerns with the tension between the public and private selves.
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From walden is about his expirences in a cabin he built near Walden bond.
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Realism, literary movement that began during the 19th century and stressed the actual as opposed to the imagined or the fanciful.
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A literary movement among novelists at the end of the nineteenth century and during the early decades of the twentieth century.
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Mark Twain's "masterpiece" is about a boy who everyone expects for him to become a gentleman, but all he does is punk innocent slaves with his buddy Tom.
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The Red Badge Of Courage by Stephen Crane is about a young military guy who learns of the harsh, coldness of the war.
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Call of the Wild by Jack London is about a Shepard dog who is a sled puller though snow and is mistreated after being stolen from his owner, a judge
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The Fruit of the Tree by Edith Wharton is a controversial book of experience through life itsself , with the morals and right/wrongs.
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Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather is about a married man in a mid-life crisis and he begins to see his ex lover in London. The affair starts to affect the wife.
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The poem's theme exemplifies the chaotic life of the 20th century individuals and society.
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Fitzgerald offers up a variety of themes -- justice, power, greed, betrayal, the American dream, and so on.
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In this novel, idealized romantic love is the protagonist’s ultimate goal. The protagonist battles against the commonly held view of love as unimportant.
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Throughout Steinbeck’s, The Grapes of Wrath, the center focus is on the Joad family and how they stay together during a time of despair.
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Almost every major character in the book is forced to come to terms with their own death, and the deaths of their loved ones.
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The poem begins by focusing on America's history of racial oppression, but looks towards a brighter future, when white Americans will recognize black Americans as their equals, and be ashamed of their previous prejudice.
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Addresses loss of identity and a man's inability to accept change within himself and society.
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Involves the relationship between the pain of actual experience and feeling one's feelings, on the one hand, and on the other hand the equally devastating numbness that comes with shutting down one's emotions in order to avoid suffering.
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The major theme of Invisible Man is the necessity to construct a personal identity in a divided society.
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A tale of good, evil, and divine grace. Other critics, however, have seen in it something more cynical.
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An exploration of human morality, and presents a constant conversation regarding the inherent goodness or evilness of people.