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  Author described:   I wrote for the common individual with a message of political democracy. My propaganda helped the American Revolution be successful. My essay in January 1776 called for American independence from Britain, six months before the Declaration of Independence was written. I helped raise the morale of the continental army by my essay during the bleak time after Washington retreated in New Jersey in December 1776.  

Reason Rip Van Winkle is missing from his village for twenty years, a generation of time.

Author described:  Europeans were curious about America. Born in France, I was one of the first to perceive the significance of the frontier environment and to observe the blending of many nations into one. I tried to define this new person who inhabited America.

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.