_____ is the extent of individual freedom and discretion in the work and its scheduling

Which poet revolutionized American poetry by improvising the form that has come to be known as free-verse?

Which of the following writers served as a hospital attendant during the Civil War?

In “The Cask of Amontillado,” the English translation of the Montresor family motto is as follows:

Which of the following is NOT a defining characteristic of transcendentalism?

Choose the correct answer below to fill in the blank:  In the manner of ______________, whom he greatly admired, Frederick Douglass presented himself as a representative American whose rise in the culture attested to the possibilities inherent in the nation’s egalitarian ideology.

In “The Cask of Amontillado,” the word “mason” has a double meaning:  While Fortunato is referring to the Freemasons, Montresor uses the term to mean one who builds with stone, brick, etc.

Identify the work in which the following quote appears:  “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge.”

Identify the work that was first delivered as an oration before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge on August 31, 1837, by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

In “The American Scholar,” Emerson’s controlling metaphor is a hand divided into fingers.