US Literature I Final Review

The only way to deal with reality is to face it. - Frank Herbert

The only way to deal with fear is to face it head-on. - Henry David Thoreau

It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. - J.K. Rowling

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you. - Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

What is the main theme of "Our Town"?

I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. - Bram Stoker, Dracula

There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand. - Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

The last man! Yes I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me. - Mary Shelley, The Last Man

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. - Louisa May Alcott

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. - Maya Angelou

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. - Philip K. Dick

Years of love have been forgot, in the hatred of a minute. - Edgar Allan Poe

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. - Henry David Thoreau, Walden

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. - Edgar Allan Poe

The only source of knowledge is experience. - Albert Einstein

It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. - J.K. Rowling

I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. - Bram Stoker, Dracula

What is Rhyme Scheme?

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. - Henry David Thoreau, Walden

What are conjunctions?

Which author spent two years in isolation at Walden Pond?

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction. - Rachel Carson

It is the hour of midnight, and the Black Veil still hangs over the city. A pestilence stalks through the land; we are marked for its prey, and must die. - Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion. - Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify. - Henry David Thoreau, Walden

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. - William Arthur Ward

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat. - Edgar Allan Poe

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul. - Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

We loved with a love that was more than love. - Edgar Allan Poe

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. - Albert Schweitzer

I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future. - Gianni Versace

What did transcendental authors collectively believe in?

Who were our three Transcendental Authors?

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. - Oscar Wilde

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. - Henry David Thoreau

What are the Gothic Elements?