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| 1-1 of 1Herman melville flashcard sets | |||
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| # | Title | Terms | Date |
| 1 | Poems by Herman Melville and Emily Dickinsonby mlsmith | 10 terms | November 17, 2008 |
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| herman melville definitions | |||
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| # | Definition | Sets | |
| 1 | moby dick | 19 sets | |
| 2 | wrote moby dick | 12 sets | |
| 3 | american writer whose experiences at sea provided the factual basis of moby-dick (1851), considered among the greatest american novels | 8 sets | |
| 4 | billy budd | 6 sets | |
| 5 | bartleby the scrivener | 6 sets | |
| 6 | moby-dick | 5 sets | |
| 7 | author of moby dick | 4 sets | |
| 8 | american writer in the 1800s. drew on his experiences at sea and living on south pacific islands for material. wrote "moby dick" | 3 sets | |
| 9 | novelist—works often set at sea—keenly interested in conflict between good and evil | 3 sets | |
| 10 | romanticism | 2 sets | |
| 11 | typee | 2 sets | |
| 12 | wrote billy budd, sailor; moby dick; classified as a dark romantic; american novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet | 2 sets | |
| 13 | he had lived among the sea and had endured many fearful encounters with cannibals and the ocean. he used these to write moby dick, which took a while to become well-liked and popular | 2 sets | |
| 14 | benito cereno | 2 sets | |
| 15 | bartleby | 2 sets | |
| 16 | wrote moby dick; he rejected the optimism of the transcendentalists and felt that man faced a tragic destiny. | 2 sets | |
| 17 | author who wrote the book, moby dick, about the whaling industry | 2 sets | |
| 18 | "what redburn saw..." | 1 set | |
| 19 | romantic | 1 set | |
| 20 | victorian | 1 set | |
| 21 | an author who published the story "moby dick" | 1 set | |
| 22 | moby dick author 1851 | 1 set | |
| 23 | billy budd: foretopman | 1 set | |
| 24 | wrote moby dick. | 1 set | |
| 25 | wrote moby dick about his experiences at sea | 1 set | |
| 26 | "moby dick" | 1 set | |
| 27 | ran away to sea when young and sailed around the world; moby dick | 1 set | |
| 28 | was an author born in new york in 1819. he was uneducated and an orphan. he served eighteen months as a whaler. these adventuresome years served as a major part in his writing. he wrote moby dick in 1851 which was much less popular than his tales of the south seas. he died in 1891. | 1 set | |
| 29 | new york writer whose romantic sea tales were more popular than his dark literary masterpiece | 1 set | |
| 30 | new york writer whose romantic sea tales were more popular than his dark literary masterpiece. | 1 set | |
| 31 | bartleby, the scrivener | 1 set | |
| 32 | american novelist and poet famous for his longest novel, moby dick | 1 set | |
| 33 | a later write - he wrote moby dick | 1 set | |
| 34 | wrote moby dick (1851) about a captain ahab who seeks revenge on the white whale that crippled him but ends up losing his life, his ship, and his crew. wasn't popular at the time but now highly regarded. melville rejected the optimism of the transcendentalists and felt that man faced a tragic destiny. his views were not popular at the time, but were accepted by later generations. | 1 set | |
| 35 | romanticism - dark romanticism; moby dick; billy bud | 1 set | |
| 36 | wrote moby dick, he rejected the optimism of the transcendentalists and felt that man faced a tragic destiny. | 1 set | |
| 37 | an orphaned and ill-educated new york writer with interesting influences from jumping ships; he had fresh and charming tales of the south seas which were instantly popular, but his world-renowned novel, "moby dick," did not gain popularity for decades | 1 set | |
| 38 | new york writer whose sea tales were more famous than his dark literary masterpiece | 1 set | |
| 39 | (1819-1891) is most famous for his book, moby dick, published in 1851. | 1 set | |
| 40 | writer of the novel moby dick. | 1 set | |