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| The movement that furthered American education, self-improvement, and cultral development. |
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| Why Romantic writers rejected rationalism. |
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| intution and imagination yield greater truths. |
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| What the writings of James Fenimore Cooper explored. |
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| frontier communities and native Americans. |
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| Natty Bumpo's character represents. |
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| the American Romantic hero |
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| As literacy models, American Romantic poets used? |
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| poetric traditions established by european romantics. |
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| Whom Nature speaks to at the beginning of the poem |
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| the person who thinks about Nature. |
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| According to the poem, what should people do when they feel afraid of death. |
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| Go into Nature and listen to what Nature teaches. |
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| in this poem, Nature urges the poet to find comfort in? |
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| Kowledge that death joins us with all other people. |
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| According to the last stanza, how should people regard death? |
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| "Thanatopsis" is a good example of Romantic poetry because? |
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| nature arouses emotions and insights in the speaker. |
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| What is the storys setting? |
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| A forest near Boston, MA, circa 1727 |
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| Tom Walkers wife is best described as? |
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| fierce shrew, always nagging and yelling. |
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| What best enabled you to predict that the figure that appears to Tom in the forrest is the devil? |
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| Tom's wife decides to go into the forest because she? |
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| decides to make her own deal with the devil. |
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| He is stricked by his own words. |
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| what happens to the traveler in the poem? |
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| What does the rising and the falling of the tide suggest? |
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| What is the theme of the poem? |
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| Humans have little control over their fate. |
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| Why does longfellow use iambic pentameter in the poem? |
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| to express his feelings about death. |
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| What can you infer from the poem about how longfellow feels about death? |
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| accepts that life goes on after someone dies. |
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| In the poem, the images of a halo, fire, and sunlight contrast with? |
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| the image of a sunless mountain ravine. |
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| the cross the speaker wears is? |
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| Readers can conclude that the female subject is? |
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| Remembered fondly and deeply missed by the speaker. |
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| What is surprising about the image of the cross? |
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