1 1.3.3 Quiz: Understand Theme and Point of View Question 4 of 10
What is a generalization?
A. A simple statement about something complicated.
B. The final resolution or event that ties up loose ends in a story
C. A series of events that make up what happens in a story
D. Hints or clues that tell you what is going to happen in a story
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c) eager anticipation.

henry david thoreau and ralph warren emerson earned the name transcendentalists.you could assume that transcendentalists come from a well educated background from people that were alive before the american civil war.these people, mostly new englanders, mostly around boston, were attempting to create a uniquely american body of literature. it was already decades since the americans had won independence from england. and so they deliberately went about creating literature, essays, novels, philosophy, poetry, and other writing that were clearly different from anything from england, france, germany, or any other european nation.another way to look at the transcendentalists is to see them as a generation of people struggling to define spirituality and religion in a way that took into account the new understandings their age made available.

a white heron is a short story by american author sarah orne jewett. first published in 1886, it was later used as the title story in a white heron and other stories.