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Henry David Thoreau was an important author of which sub-genre of the American Romanticism movement?

Transcendentalism

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Edgar Allan Poe was an important author of which sub-genre of the American Romanticism movement?

Gothic

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Henry David Thoreau wrote a timeless essay called "Civil Disobedience". Define the main idea of Civil Disobedience.

It is the refusal to obey the demands or commands of a government or occupying power, without resorting to violence or active measures of opposition.

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Define the "climax" in a plot.

It is the highest point of tension or drama in a narratives’ plot. Often, it is also when the main conflict of the story is faced and solved by the protagonist

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Define "personification"

Personification is a kind of metaphor in which you describe an inanimate object, abstract thing, or non-human animal in human terms.

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Identify the difference between a metaphor and a simile.

In the image

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Why do some question the authenticity of Olaudah Equiano's "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano"

Because some historians question his place of birth, which would mean he did not cross the Atlantic on a slave ship

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In the second line of the poem "Beat! Breat! Drums!", by Walt Whitman, can see which literary devices of repetition of sounds?

It's assonance, the repetition of same or similar vowel sounds. In this case, it's the "o" sound (through/door) and the "u" sound (burst/ruthless)

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Identify the 4 main types of conflicts and which one is the main one in "Moby Dick"

The types of conflict: man vrs self; man vrs man; man vs society; man vrs nature. "Moby Dick"'s main conflict is man brs nature, against the whale.

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Explain why the Puritans came to America

They came to America to find a place to practice their religion freely

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Explain what is the climax of "The Crucible".

It's the moment John Proctor admits his adultery to the court in Salem, which was his main conflict in the whole story.

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Compare biographies and autobiographis

When a person writes his/her own life story, it is an autobiography. When an author writes a book about another person’s life, it is a biiography

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Define "hyperbole"

Hyperbole is a figure of speech in which an author or speaker purposely and obviously exaggerates to an extreme. "The suitcase weighed a ton"

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