Early American Literature Review

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Poignant

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Deeply affecting the feelings.

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Aphorism

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A short statement that expresses a general truth or true observation.

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Edgar Allen Poe

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Wrote 'The Bells'.

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Walden Pond

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Thoreau lived in a cabin here, near Concord.

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Personification

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Giving human characteristics to something not human.

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Oversoul

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A concept in Transcendentalism that refers to a universal spirit or essence that connects all living things.

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Metaphor

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A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'.

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Simile

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A figure of speech that compares two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'.

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Quatrain

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A stanza or poem of four lines, often with alternating rhymes.

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Transcendentalism

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A philosophical movement that emphasizes the inherent goodness of people and nature.