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| Emerson | Resigned from the ministry because of thoughts on self reliance and tradition |
| Poe | Considered the father of the short story because of his success with gothic tales |
| Dickinson | Never married and rarely ventured away from home |
| Poe | Women in his life suffered from tuberculosis |
| Poe | Born, lived, and died in poverty |
| Dickinson | most famous American lyric poet |
| Hawthorne | Expressed difficulty in accepting idealistic philosophies of Transcendentalism |
| Poe | Abandoned by his alcoholic father |
| Thoreau | Valued simple living and communed with nature by building a cabin beside Walden pond |
| Emerson | Famous lecturer and spokesperson of Transcendentalism |
| Hawthorne | Born in Salem to a prominent Puritan family |
| Thoreau | Conductor on the Underground Railroad |
| Poe | A life filled with tragedy allowed this writer to produce horrific works of terror |
| Hawthorne | Considered innovative because of psychological novels |
| Dickinson | Wrote poems anonymously because they served as a self portrait and spiritual biography |
| Picturesque | The hopeful side of Romantic literature, focusing on nature and beauty |
| Gothic | style of literature emphasizing the grotesque, mysterious, and desolate |
| Renaissance | movement or period of vigorous artistic and intellectual activity |
| Romanticism | Emphasis on the examination of inner feelings and emotions over reason, logic, and scientific observation |
| Manifest Destiny | imperialistic expansion...”how the west was won”, from sea to sea |
| Transcendentalism | The human being can transcend to a higher spiritual plane |
| Short Story | a piece of fiction which can be read at a single sitting |
| Narrative Poem | poem that tells a story |
| Raven | “a glorified crow” that can be up to two feet long and often appears in legend and literature as sinister omens |
| Extended Metaphor | A comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem |
