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| Broken Spears: Aztec Account of the Conquest of New Mexico |
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| "The Conquest of New Spain" |
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| The First Voyage: The West Indies |
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| The Narrative of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca |
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| A General Description of Virginia, New England and the Summer Isles; A Description of New England |
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| A Letter to Captain John Smith |
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| A Model of Christian Charity |
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| A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of ______ |
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| Notes on the State of Virginia; Declaration of Independence |
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| Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God |
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| Dissertations on the English Language |
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| Words of Tecumseh (who is the other) |
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| Words of Tenskwatawa (who is the other) |
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| Appeal to Christian Women of the South |
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| Women's Rights Convention |
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| Incidence in the Life of a Slave Girl |
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| Narratives of the Life of Frederick Douglass |
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| Mary Boykin Miller Chestnut |
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| Second Inaugural Address; A Letter to Horace Greenley |
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| Walden; Resistance to Civil Gov't |
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| a bunch of short poems blah blah |
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| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
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| a category of artistic composition |
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| a manner of expression in writing |
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a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid:
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a figure of speech in which a word of phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable:
"I had fallen through a trapdoor of depression"
"Like a city up on a hill" |
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| Autobiography that follows it's subject from a state of damnation to a state of grace. Moral ascension and prophetic language dominate. (think rowlandson and winthrop) |
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| talk on a religious or moral subject |
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| story of people being captured by uncivilized peoples. (mary rowlandson) |
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| formal statement testifying to someone's character and qualifications |
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| a formal examination of evidence by a judge |
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| no religious or spiritual basis |
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| the divine foreordaining of all that will happen, esp with regard to salvation of some and not others |
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| practice of regional rather than central systems of administration or economica, cultural, or political affiliations |
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| representation of primitive humankind as idealized in romantic literature, symbolizing innate goodness of humanity free from corrupting influences of civilization. |
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| Religious revival in early american history. Let by evangelical protestants such as John Edwards |
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| age in western philosophy that changed thinking from relying on established doctrine to only what could be determined through observation and experimentation (franklin, jefferson, newton etc) |
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| an absence of preconceived ideas or predetermined goals; clean slate |
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| belief that there was a god that created the universe but has no active participation in it |
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| a large aggregate of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language inhabiting a particular territory. |
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| patriotic feelings, principles or efforts |
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| status of belonging to a particular nation |
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| the leading character or one of the main characters |
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| self account of ones life |
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| a pithy observation that contains a general truth |
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| a person who recounts events of a story |
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| the aspect of someone's character that is present or perceived by others |
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| the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing |
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| a form of inquiry and debate based on asking questions to stimulate critical thinking. |
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| the route that slave-trade boats took from Africa to America |
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| the passing down of tails through spoken tongue rather than text |
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refusal to comply with certain laws.
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| focus on the power of the executive branch over congress |
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| a doctrine that the spirit exists as distinct from matter or that spirit is the only reality |
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| occuring or existing before a particular war |
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| occuring or existing before a particular war |
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| group of writers that included cooper and irving. based in new york city. |
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| a movement of arts and literature emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual |
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| sign that something is going to happen |
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| protagonist that is not an archtypal hero |
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| a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from the words |
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| the excessive expression of feelings of tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia in behavior, writing or speech |
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| derogatory term for women who fit into stereotypical role of a submissive, female role |
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| an artistic movement that focused on depicting the uncorrupted landscape west of the catskills |
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| a sensational dramatic piece with exaggerated characters and exciting events intended to appeal to the emotions |
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| the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named |
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| poetry that does not rhyme or have a set meter |
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| the action of searching out and publicizing scandalous information about famous people |
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| of or relating to an episodic style of fiction dealing with the adventures of a rough and dishonest but appealing hero |
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| time of rapid growth of post civil war era during reconstruction |
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| the doctrine that all events, including human action, are ultimately determined by causes external to the will |
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| a novel delaing with one person's formative years or spiritual education |
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