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According to Poe, to write a good short story the writer begins with

Identify the term as defined: literature that is written while the author is confined in a location against his or her will, such as a prison, jail or house arrest

One reason that Alcott’s story might have been controversial is that it implies a

Identify the term as defined: the men who wrote the Constitution of the United States of America and who are tagged with the intent of “originalism” whether they believed in it or not

Why did Thoreau refuse to pay his poll tax?

What is the first and most attention-getting metaphor of Emerson’s essay “Nature”? His friend even drew a picture of this metaphor.

What is the miraculous item(s) that John Smith shows the indigenous peoples and with which he explains the workings of the universe?

What metaphor did Williams use to express his idea of the separation of church and state?

“if ever two were one, then surely we” is the first line of one of Bradstreet’s poems from the group known as the

Mary Rowlandson started a new literary genre, the captivity narrative, when she wrote about her time as a war prisoner of the Wampanoags during which war?