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promotional literature-
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Come to America type stuff. Works: Drayton’s “Ode to Virginia Voyage” (describes America as paradise and land of opportunity)
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captivity narrative-
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Related Ideas: Providence, Englishness (and/or Christian-ness, Civilization) in the face of savagery. Works: “Hannah Dustan’s Captivity Narrative,” as told to Cotton Mather (Dustan is kidnapped then prays and finds opportunity to escape)
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sea-deliverance narrative-
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Accounts of sailors lost at sea who face all sorts of hardship and then, once they appreciate what they have/ask for God’s help, they are saved. Works: “Christus super aquas,” Cotton Mather (shipwrecked, almost dies, is thankful for small things, is rescued)
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providence (all senses)-
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God’s influence in the world, can be positive or negative. Designed to test His followers or rewarded them, or both. Works: “Circumstance” (captured by beast, has to sing to survive, only after she sings hymns/has faith in God does her husband find her)
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typology-
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interpretation of life-- providence. Living in New Testament, everything has an Old Testament precedent. Everything has meaning. Works: “Wonders of the Invisible World” Cotton Mather (parallel with ancient Israelites who had to survive wilderness)
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Puritan attitudes toward nature-
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Bradford: nature is a test, something that has to be overcome, wilderness is desolate. Works: “Of Plymouth Plantation,” Bradford ("Besides, what could they see but a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wild beasts and wild men?")
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Jeremiad-
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group has fallen from original righteousness, God promises punishment unless you repent. Works: “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” Jonathan Edwards (describes hellfire fate of sinners, only God's hand holds them up from the pits of hell)
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Deism-
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belief that reason and observation of natural world prove existence of God. Works: "Thoughts on the Works of Providence," Wheatley (balance of the universe is an act of providence, proof of God)
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Quakerism-
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Christian sect, doesn’t believe in violence or swearing oaths, first abolitionists. Works: Life in the Iron Mills (Quaker woman at end saves Deborah, takes body of Hugh to bury where it's nice and green)
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religious enthusiasm-
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religious fervor/excitement, the Great Awakening. Works: "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," reeking of religious enthusiasm, many people saw Edwards as crazy
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Horatian aesthetic-
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to instruct and delight. Works: “The Contrast” (funny but morals at end)
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John Locke-
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Father of Classical Liberalism, deist
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satire-
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sarcastic, mocking, says something about society. Works: “Blockheads,” Mercy Otis Warren (makes fun of British soldiers, comedy around Battle of Bunker Hill)
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sensational-
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depictions of graphic violence and horror, insider accounts of the underside of American life Works: Douglass descriptions of torture of slaves, Crevecoeur description of slave in cage with eyes eaten by birds
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sentimental-
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indulgence of emotionalism, focus on women and children, try to tug at the heartstrings of readers. Works: Frederick Douglass (doesn't remember his momma)
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plantation novel-
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slaves are happy, kind masters, the law protects them. Works: Douglass proves these false.
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blackface-minstrelsy-
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racist portrayals of slaves, super popular, comedy skits/music, downplays severity of slavery, plays into notion that slaves sing and dance and have a good time on the plantations. There are also songs about how miserable the freed slaves were.
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sublime-
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pit of stomach falls, physical reaction to an idea, image, etc. Works: “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” Jonathan Edwards (descriptions of hellfire, fate of sinners)
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gothic-
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Sensational, mysterious, perverse. Woods become sign of Gothic in America in absence of castles. Works: “Young Goodman Brown,” Nathaniel Hawthorne (witchcraft). “Bartelby, The Scrivener,” Herman Melville (Bartelby is like a ghost).
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perverse-
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People torture themselves psychologically, act in ways opposite of their self interest. Works: “The Raven,” Poe (keeps asking questions, knowing it'll only say Nevermore)
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romanticism-
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movement in 18th century; emphasized inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual. Works: "The Indian Burial Ground," Philip Freneau (talks about the positions of the Indians and their spiritual adventures "reason is no match for imagination when in a romantic setting")
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realism-
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describes real life Works: “Common Sense,” Paine (straightforward arguments about why America should be independent)
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epistolary novel-
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piece of work written in letters Works: Crevecoeur’s Letters
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grave robbing-
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digging up graves for valuables or for the body for research. Works: “An Oration” (speaker describes how his mistress died and then he dug up her body to cut up in the name of science)
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unreliable narrator-
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things narrator says cannot be taken as 100% true. Works: “Ligeia,” Poe (dude was high on opium the whole time)
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narrative layers-
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story within a story Works: "Sleepy Hollow," Irving (speaker tells story of how he met another man who tells the story of sleepy hollow)
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subscription (as a publishing practice)-
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Method of publishing where people “subscribe” to a book that is trying to get published, promising they’ll buy it. So it has some sure-thing buyers. Works: Wheatley
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autobiography (especially elements of the American autobiographical tradition)-
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rags to riches, slavery to freedom, family history Works: Ben Franklin (becomes model for almost all future autobiographies)
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closet drama-
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plays you read at home instead of going to see them. Works: “The Contrast,” Royall Tyler
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Dame Van Winkle-
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Rip Van Winkle’s wife, angry and naggy, becomes the predecessor of all naggy housewife tropes. Works: Rip Van Winkle
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Natty Bumppo-
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likes the Indians, complains about farmers, complains about wasteful habits of men (The Pioneers excerpt with pigeon shooting), inspired by Daniel Boone. Works: Last of the Mohicans, James Fennimore Cooper
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speaker (of a poem)-
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person who is narrating the poem, not the same as the author. can have different thoughts, opinions, experiences, etc. Works: Annabel Lee, Poe ("my" annabel lee, poe isn't speaker)
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Hudibrastic-
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iambic tetrameter, satire. Works: Samuel Butler's Hudibras (a mock-heroic satirical poem ridiculing the Puritans)
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meter-
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The patterned structure of a poem. Works: "The Author to her Book," Anne Bradstreet (uses heroic couplets)
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ballad/hymn meter-
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iambic lines of 7 accents, each arranged in rhyming pairs, usually arranged in a 4-line stanza. can be sung to “Amazing Grace” Works: Emily Dickinson ([Because I could not stop for death])
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heroic couplet-
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2 lines that rhyme. Works: "The Author to Her Book," Anne Bradstreet
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blank verse-
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unrhymed iambic pentameter. Works: “Thanatopsis,” William Cullen Bryant.
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free verse-
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not any rhyme or reason Works: “Leaves of Grass,” Walt Whitman
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slant rhyme-
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almost rhymes Works: Dickinson
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anaphora-
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lists, repetition Works: Whitman
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