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Identify title of the quote: Look to my little babes, my dear remains.  And if thou love thyself, or loved’st me,  These O protect from stepdame’s injury. And if chance to thine eyes shall bring this verse, With some sad sighs honor my absent hearse; And kiss this paper for thy love’s dear sake, Who with salt tears this last farewell did take.  

Identify the literary trend: This literary trend began in the early 1800s in American literature and painting, a generation after Europeans had use it. The trend often focuses on nature. It can also use the mystical, long ago and far away, the unknown. It stresses the emotional side of human experience rather than the intellectual side of the previous century. Among the great writers of this trend are Poe, Hawthorne,  Melville, and Bryant.

Identify the speaker of the quote: “BROTHERS–The Great Spirit is angry with our enemies; he speaks in thunder, and the earth swallows up villages, and drinks up the Mississippi. The great waters will cover their lowlands; their corn cannot grow; and the Great Spirit will sweep those who escape to the hills from the earth with his terrible breath . . .BROTHERS–We must be united; we must smoke the same pipe; we must fight each other’s battles; and more than all, we must love the Great Spirit; he is for us; he will destroy our enemies, and make all his red children happy.”

According to LeChâtelier’s principle, predict whether adding H3O+ causes the system to shift in the direction of reactants, products, or no change.NH4+(aq) + H2O(l) ⇌ NH3(aq) + H3O+(aq)

Identify the author: Poet, fiction writer, and literary critic, he formulated the modern short story format and devised the only literary genre created by Americans–the short story. He is still among the most popular of American authors. Abandoned by his father, he lost his mother and wife to tuberculosis and often wrote about the death of a beautiful woman in his work. His work has Gothic elements.

When we watch a production of Hamlet, we enjoy the acting and the spectacle, but also find ourselves contemplating its themes, like the idea of revenge. What term describes this phenomenon?

  Identify the title of the quote: They gave me to understand we were to be carried to these white people’s country to work for them. I then was a little revived, and thought if it were no worse than working my situation was not so desperate; but still I feared I should be put to death, the white people looked and acted, as I thought, in so savage a manner; for I had never seen among any people such instances of brutal cruelty, and this is not only shown towards us blacks, but also to some of the whites themselves.

The suggestion Tecumseh is making to the six Native American tribes to deal with white immigrant invasion of their lands.

8 pt. paragraph answer: Compare two of the play performances you watched for this class in three specific ways. Do NOT discuss the plot (what happened). Instead, focus on THREE specific observations related to the actual production videos that were assigned, such as how they were costumed and staged. 

Who wrote the play “Trifles”?