unalienable: that may not be taken away

despotism: absolute power or control; tyranny

transient: passing away with time

usurpations: acts of wrongfully taking over a right or power that belongs to someone else

conjured: appealed to

consanguinity: blood relationship

acquiesce in the necessity which denounces: recognize that we must demand

parallelism: the use of similar grammatical forms to express ideas of equal importance

insurrections: an act or instance of rising in revolt, rebellion, or resistance against civil authority or an established government

parallelism: when a writer uses similar grammatical forms or sentence patterns to express ideas of equal importance.

- Samuel Langhorne Clemens is his real name.
- He was born on November 30, 1835.
- At age 12 his father died.
- He became a river pilot and Mark Twain came from river talk.
- Married Olivia Langdon and had three kids that died before age 20.
- By the end of his writing career he had written over 30 books.
- Mark also used Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass as another name.

- Irony - the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning.

Jules Verne was another writer at the same time as mark and wrote Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

1. Why do they repeat it?
because man is dominant
2. Why do they make it personal?
because if its personal then its more effective to one person which makes a free country
3. How does the D.I. anticipate its audiences resistance to change?
because it gives people their own opinion
4. How does the D.I. use parallelism? How does it impact the effectiveness of the piece?
using alot of important sentences and repeating alot. because it grabs the eye when you see a repeating line
5.What to you is the most convincing example stated in the D.I.? Why?
He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. i think this because our laws are slipping and they need to be followed

UNIT 3

GOTHIC LIT.

- Gothic Lit. is characterized by grotesque characters, bizzare situations, and violent events.
- Romanticism plays a big roll in Gothic Lit. also by setting a different kind of mood in the story or movie.
- American Gothic is cavernous gothic cathedrals with random towers and high stained glass windowns to inspire awe and fear to the viewers.
- Gargoyales were intended to ward off evil spirits
You can find almost all of these things in any movie but if they aren't with each other then the movie cant be concidered a Gothic movie.

Gothic Literature, Romanticism, Transcendentalism

- Gothic Literature -

- Gothic Literature combines both horror and romance.

- Popular during the end o the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century.

- Romanticism -

- A movement in art and literature in the late 18th century into the

early 19th century.

- Celebrated nature rather than civilization

- Transcendentalism -

- Transcendentalism was a group of new ideas that came to New England in the early 19th

century to the middle of the 19th century.

- The new ideas were Literature, Religion, Culture, and Philosophy.

- It was sometimes called American Transcendentalism to distinguish if from the word

transcendental.

The Crucible Notes

- Reverend Samuel Parris - Salem, Massachusetts in 1962, He is in his middle 40's, he doesn't like children, he doesn't/didn't think that they should be ready to be young adults.

- Salem Residents thought children were thankful for being able to walk straight, eyes lowered, arms to the side, and mouths shut until bidden to speak.

- Salem was a really small town of about 200 - 300.

- The Salem tragedy developed from a Paradox.

- Tituba - Reverend Parris' slave, is 40 years old

Samuel Parris
- Abigail Williams - Parris's niece, 17 years old, beautiful, orphan

- Mrs. Ann Putnam - 45 years old

- Thomas Putnam, landowner, nearly 50, his wife's brother-in-law is James Bayley, fought indeans at Narragansett

- James Bayley - turned down as minister of Salem

Thomas Putnam

The Salem Witch Trials

From June 1692 through September, nineteen men and women were convicted of doing witchcraft, they were brought to Gallows Hill for hanging. One man that was over eighty years old was pressed under heavy stones to death for refusing to go through the charges for witchcraft.

The Salem Witch Trials

From June 1692 through September, nineteen men and women were convicted of doing witchcraft, they were brought to Gallows Hill for hanging. One man that was over eighty years old was pressed under heavy stones to death for refusing to go through the charges for witchcraft.

The Puritan's

The Puritan's didn't like how their church was feeding them their religious believes so they decided to leave and practice religion somewhere else

-Leslie Marmon Silko (author), born in New Mexico, grew up on the Laguna Pueblo Reservation
-Pueblos, lived in American Southwest

my grandma once jumped in a hole and broke her toe