According to Emerson in “Self-Reliance,” for non-conformity

Identify the term as defined: the men who wrote the Constitution of the United States of America and who are tagged with the intent of “originalism” whether they believed in it or not

Identify the term defined as: A creation of the person who writes the literary selection; it is not the narrator. One way of understanding this creation is to see him or her as an idealized version of the human being behind the story, poem, novel, or drama

One way John Smith marked our nation was with his __________.

Why did Thoreau refuse to pay his poll tax?

Emily Dickinson often used metaphors in her poetry that acted as

“The Speech of Miss Polly Baker” is what type of writing?

What is the miraculous item(s) that John Smith shows the indigenous peoples and with which he explains the workings of the universe?

Identify the genre as described: characterized by an overindulgence in emotion, especially the conscious effort by the author to induce emotion in order for the reader to enjoy the experience of it. This genre often has an optimistic overemphasis of the goodness of humanity—or an expression for a wish for the goodness of humanity

Identify the term to know as defined: a system by which people are given positions of power or achieve otherwise desirable ends in their lives and societies by virtue of their own abilities—not as a result of who their parents are or their previous position in society.