| A | B |
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| Walt Whitman | Free Verse |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | "To be great, is to be misunderstood." |
| Henry David Thoreau | "Simpolify; simplify; simplify!" |
| Emily Dickinson | Slant rhyme |
| Louisa May Alcott | LITTLE WOMEN |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | "Hitch your wagon to a star!" |
| MOBY DICK | "Call me Ishmael." |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | "I 'spect I just growed..." |
| CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE by Thoreau | "Any man more right than his neighbor constitutes a majority of one." his |
| James Russell Lowell | "And what is so rare as a day in June?/Then, if ever, come perfect days." |
| "Concord Hymn" by Emerson | "Here once the embattled farmers stood,/And fired the shot heard 'round the world." |
| "Nature" by Emerson | "In nature...I become a transparent eyeball." |
| Longfellow, Whittier, and Lowell | The Fireside Poets |
| WALDEN by Thoreau | "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately." "Our life is frittered away by details." "We do not ride on the railroad; it rides on us." |
| "The Rhodora" by Emerson | "Beauty is its own excuse for being..." |
| 'Self-Reliance" by Emerson | "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | "The Skeleton in Armor" |
| "Snowbound" by Whittier | A frame story |
| Thoreau | "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps irt is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away." |
| WALDEN by Thoreau | "That government is best which governs least." |
| "The Arsenal at Springfield" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | ""Were half the power that fills the world with terror,/Were half the wealth bestpwed on camps and courts,/ Given to redeem the human mind from error;/There were no need for arsenals and forts." |
| "The Chambered Nautilus" Oliver Wendell Holmes | "Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul..." |
| "Old Ironsides" by Oliver Wendell Holmes | "Ay, tear her tattered ensign down!" "The harpies of the shore shall pluck the eagle of the sea." |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | THE SCARLET LETTER |
| Hester Prynne | She wore the scarlet letter. |
| Pearl | The child of Hester and Dimmesdale |
| Roger Chillingworth | Husband of Hester, wreaks revenge on Dimmsdale |
| Puritan Boston | The setting of the SCARLET LETTER |
| The worst thing, according to Hawthorne | "violating the sanctity of the human soul." |
| Herman Melville | Wrote MOBY DICK |
| Ahab's ship | The Pequod |
| Narrator and only survivor of the Pequod | Ishmael |
| Ahab | Captain of the Pequod in MOBY DICK |
| Queeg-Queeg | The harpooner in MOBY DICK whose coffin saved Ishmael |
| Starbuck | The first mate in MOBY DICK |
| The prophesy in MOBY DICK | "Ahab shall sink and rise again; he will beckon , and all will follow. All will die save one." |
| What Moby symbolizes. | All that is beautiful, unexplainable, and uncontrolled in nature." |
| "There's a certain slant of light" Emily Dickinson | Theme--Weather can effect our moods as well as our physical condition. |
| "A narrow fellow in the grass" Emily Dickinson | Theme: Description of and reaction to a snake. |
| "Tell the truth, but tell it slant" Emily Dickinson | Theme: We have to be led slowly to great truths. |
| "Success is counted sweetest" by Emily Dickinson | Theme: We appreciate things we don't have more than things we have. |
| James Russell Lowell | "The First Snowfall" |
| "I never saw a moor" by Emily Dickinson | Theme: We sometimes have to take things on faith. |
| "Hope is a thing with feathers" by Emily Dickinson | Theme: Hope is in our souls and never leaves. |
| "The bustle in a house" by Emily Dickinson | Theme: How we deal with a loved one's death. |
| "This is my letter to the world" by Emily Dickinson | The author asks society to judge her "tenderly." |
| Slant Rhyme | Rhyme that "almost" rhymes; given/heaven. |
| "Because I could not stop for death" by Emily Dickinson | The author finds death rather appealing. |
| "My life closed twice" by Emily Dickinson | "Parting is all we know of heaven/And all we need of hell." |
