Fall Semester Review

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Fall Semester Review
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Early American Literature
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The Puritans

• Puritan work ethic
• 3 main beliefs
• -people should believe in God
• -be literate
• -self-sufficient
• Great Conflict Great Divide
• deism belief in God, based on reason

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The Founding Fathers

• American Dream
• Influenced by English Philosopher
• -Natural Rights
• Jefferson, Franklin, Henry, Paine

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American
Romanticism
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American Romanticism
guilt
Puritan ideals
Equality
Freedom
salvation
Passion
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• Imagination, spontaneity, beauty, patriotism
• escape dull realities life
• -exotic settings
• -nature
• fireside poets
• Romantic Hero

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• Journey towards nature freedom
• of the imagination
• ?romantics wanted to rise above dull realities of
  life to a higher truth
• searched for exotic settings
• wanted to move away from dull realities of life
  
• find the underlying beauty truth

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American Renaissance
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• Renaissance flowering, excitement over human
  possibilities, high regard for individual ego
• Writers of American Renaissance struggled to
  understand what American meantespecially in
  terms of literature
• questioned their identity place in society

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• viewed nature as a doorway to the mystical world
  holding all truths
• Lyceum Movement
• Transcendental Club

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Subject / Predicate

1. Many American citizens believe that the American
   Dream is an elusive concept.
2. Eleven movies by Steven Spielberg were recently
   released.
3. Many seniors choose not to take two electives
   during their senior year.