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What is "balm"?
A word meaning "something that heals or soothes, as an ointment."
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Who is Margaret Fuller?
The author of "Woman in the Nineteenth Century"
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Who are Poe, Irving, and Hawthorne?
The main three Dark Romanticists
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Who is Mark Twain or Samuel Clemens?
The author of Huck Finn.
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What is "placid"?
A word meaning "calm; peaceful; undisturbed."
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Who are the Native Americans?
The views of the American Transcendentalists are similar to this people group.
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What is Gothic Fiction?
The main literary influence on Dark Romantic short stories.
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What is 1884.
The year that Huck Finn was published.
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What is "lattice"?
A word meaning "a structure of criss-crossed strips."
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What is "Self-Reliance"?
The essay in which Emerson praises the virtues of "being true to yourself" or else you will have to be a follower!
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What is the fascination with death?
The fascination that the Dark Romanticists display in almost every one of their works.
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What is anxiety over the legacy of the institution of slavery in Reconstruction America.
The main social concern of the novel.
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What is "deduce"?
A word meaning "to draw a conclusion from something known or assumed."
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What is Walden Pond?
The geographical feature that the title of Walden refers to.
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What is a weathervane or weathercock?
The shape of Ichabod Crane's head reminded the author of this barn tool.
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What is traveling down a river?
The main flow of the narrative follows Jim and Huck doing this.
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What is "lethargy"?
A word meaning "sluggish inactivity or drowsiness."
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Who are children and poets?
The groups of people who the American Transcendentalists hold up as ideal (two different groups).
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What is "Supernatural or natural"?
The question that Dark Romantics ask their readers to ask in each tale.
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What is the Frontier?
What is the setting for this novel (think about big terms for ideal places in American Literature).
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