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Puritanism
Puritanism basically was from the beggining of time from when the indiams passed down mouth told stories to each generation to the end of colonial times. -
To My Dear and Loving Husband
Anne Bradstreet writes this poem to describe the meaning of her husband to her and how she feels about him. -
Benifacius Essays to do good
Cotton Mather wrote these essays to promote humanitarian acts. -
Sinners in Hands of Angry God
In this typical sermon of the Great Awakening given by Jonathan Edwards tells and emphasizes his belief in a hell. -
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Rationalism
Rationalism is the belief that the mind is the best way of determining truths. -
Speech to Virginia Convention
Patrick Henry made this speech to raise a militia and to put Virginia in a place for defense. -
Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson wrote this declaration of Independence to tell why the United States are independent from England and the basic rights of the Americans. -
From the American Crisis
Thomas Paine wrote this in his support for an independent and self-governing America -
Speech in the Convention
Benjamin Franklin made this speech to say how he had not wanted there to be a paid presidency, and he wanted there to be multiple executive powers instead of just the president. -
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Romanticism
Romanticism was a movement of artistic and intelectual thinking. -
The Devil and Tom Walker
Washington Irving wrote this tale about a man, Tom Walker, who doesnt take a deal from the devil but ends up losing his wife the the devil who wanted him to take the deal. -
From Nature; Self Reliance
Ralph Waldo Emerson describes that the best part of nature is is its embrace in humanity. -
The Raven
Edgar Allen Poe wrote this essentially about a girl who died and he just missed her. -
The Scarlet Letter
This book, written by Nathaniel Hawthorn, describes a women who committed adultary and was run out of town after being made to ebroider a golden "A" onto her clothing. -
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Regionalism
This writing stlye focuses on a sepcific place or area and tries to express or show it. -
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Realism
This writing style focuses on how things were and trying to show them. -
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Naturalism
A writing style that focused on how enviroments change people. -
Moby Dick
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From Walden
This essay, Written by Henry David Thareau, is mainly about how he depicted the seasonal changes. -
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman wrote this collection of poetry throughout his life so that the reader would eventually see a self formed through the words of the book. -
Poetry Collection
Emily Dickinson wrote this collection of poems that amazes so many people because she seems to have come from many traditions all at once. -
Civil War start
The american civil war Starts with the succesion of the Confederaecy. -
Beloved
By Toni Morrison -
We Wear the Mask
Written by Paul Laurence Dunbar -
Civil War end
The Civil war ends with the Union victorius and slavery is abolished. -
The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls
Henry Wdsworth Longfellow wrote this peom that tells a tale about a traveler who dies with the oceans tide. -
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Written by Mark Twain -
The Red Badge of Courage
Writtien by Stephen Crane -
The Awakening
Written by Kate Chopin -
Call of the Wild
Written by Jack London -
A Wagner Matinee
Written by Willa Cather -
The House of Mirth
Written by Edith Wharton -
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Modernism
The time in history when people began to focus and move towards more modern thoughts and beliefs in art and literature. -
The Road Not Taken
By Robert Frost -
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Harlem Renaissance
Period of time when africans realized their freedoms and began to expres them. -
The Wasteland
By T.S. Eliot -
The Great Gatsby
By F. Scott Fitzgerald -
I, Too, Sing America
By Langston Hughes -
As I Lay Dying
By William Faulkner -
Their Eyes Were Watching God
By Zora Neale Hurston -
The Grapes of Wrath
By John Steinbeck -
Native Son
By Richard Wright -
A Worn Path
By Eudora Welty -
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Postmodernism
The time in history after the modernism movements. -
Catcher in the Rye
By JD Salinger -
The Crucible
By Arthur Miller -
A Good Man is Hard to Find
Flannery O'Connor -
Old Age Sticks
By EE Cummings -
To Kill A Mockingbird
By Harper Lee -
For Whom the Bell Tolls
By Ernest Hemingway -
Invisible Man
By Ralph Ellison
