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T/F Young goodman brown does not believe what he saw in the woods was a dream.
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false
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metafiction is
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where you must know other works and cultural clues to understand in a work
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pirate tales and adventure stories are...
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romanticistic- considered bad literature to novelists
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romance
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poe, hawthorne, dickens
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novel
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means new thing, was what the early authors thought was good literature (think realism)
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which characters in the adventures of huckleberry finn satarize european fuedal culture
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the sheperdsons and the grangerfords
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define liminal
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in the middle, in between (like huck finn)
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which culture were southern people attached to?
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european culture
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huck finn was unpopular in mainstream culture because...
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mainly because people don't like the dialect used in the book and don't want young boys to emulate it
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the white fog in huckleberry finn represents...
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white culture
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when huck plays a trick on jim, jim calls huck this
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trash
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huck decides to go to this place and help free jim
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hell
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mark twains real name is
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sammuel clemins
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huck unlearns this social system
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slavery (but only for jim)
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the book shows that huck can only change one step at a time.
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this is true for all people, especially young people.
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who takes care of huck in the beginning of the book?
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Mrs. Watson, and the widow Douglas
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What is the name of the island Huck and Jim run to?
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Jacksons island
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how much was jim going to be sold for?
how much was the reward to find jim? |
sold for: $800
reward: $300 |
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How does Huck get caught for not being a girl?
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he threads a needle incorrectly
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in bartleby the scrivner, the red ink represented ________
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debt
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in bartleby the scrivner. The narrorator doesn't understand that he's the reason his employees have so many problems
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he wonders why they're in debt and don't dress nicely
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what years did romanticism take place
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1789-1865 (civil war)
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what years did realism take place?
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(civil war) 1865-1910 (WW I)
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realism authors thought that fiction was a way to preserve history and depict what life was like in their erra
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they also wanted to preserve settings and people assosiated thier work with the region they lived in
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emily Dickinson's peom "I cannot live with you" is about
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her love for either a married man or a celebrate church member
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in the cask of amontiado, the amontiado is...
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the wine
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fortiunato is drunk and montressor kills him by...
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entombing him in his cellar alive
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what is bartleby's famous line?
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"I would prefer not to"
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what were the names of the employees in bartlebey the scrivner?
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nippers, turkey, bartleby, gingernut
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what was the name of the literature movement before romanticism?
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the enlightenment movement
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enlightened thinkers believed in...
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the greatness of cities, logical thinking, and rationality
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fiction writers had to trick readers into reading their material
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they often did this by playing their fiction off as fact
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what is total depravity? and who questioned this idea?
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-the belief that people are bad without a belief in god.
-Hawthore questioned total depravity in the young goodman brown |
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the fall of the house of usher has many similarities to this type of themed fiction
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vampire stories
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what are the two stories in the fall of the house of usher?
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-the vampire storie and the incest story
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