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Identify: A form of literature extremely important to Native American culture, which had no written language. Leaders frequently addressed the community or served as spokesman. Wise men called on spiritual powers, leaders debated issues, warriors described battles.

Identify the literary trend: This literary movement concentrates on the dark side of human nature, often using the supernatural. The atmosphere is mysterious with the threat of unknown dangers. There may be dreams or visions. Often the setting involves dungeons, hidden rooms, or forests. Poe especially used this technique.

  Identify title of quote: Experience keeps a dear school, but Fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.–Dost thou love Life, then do not squander Time, for that’s the Stuff Life is made of.–Lost time is never found again. 

Name the title:   The past the present wilt–I have fill’d them, emptied them, And proceed to fill my next fold of the future. Listener up there! what have you to confide to me? Look in my face while I snuff the sidle of evening, (Talk honestly, no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute longer.) Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) I concentrate toward them that are nigh, I wait on the door-slab. Who has done his days’ work? who will soonest be through with his supper? Who wishes to walk with me? Will you speak before I am gone? will you prove already too late?

Which of the following is the correctly balanced equation for the complete neutralization of H3PO4 by  ?

When an acid reacts with a metal like Al, the products are ________.

Identify the term: The eighteenth century in American Literature is known by this term. It was a time that stressed logic, common sense, decorum, rational thought. 

Identify this person: Born about 1752 and dying in 1830, this Seneca chief served on the American side in the War of 1812. His native name was Sogoyewapha, but he was known by a gift of clothing given to him by a British officer during the American Revolution. He was a gifted orator who used logic and reason to try to get the point of the Native Americans across to the whites. He rationally defended the Native American spirituality against encroachment by Europeans.

When more reactant is added to a system iat equilibrium, the reverse reaction is favored.

Identify the title for the quote:Whither ‘midst falling dew,While flow the heavens with the last steps of day,Far, through their rosy depth, dost thou pursueThy solitary way? . . .He, who, from zone to zone,Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight,In the long way that I must trace alone,Will lead my steps aright.