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In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.
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The speaker of one work by this author observes the "little promontory" on which the titular creature stood. In one of his works, a boy is brought to tears by the "he-birds" calls for his lost mate, and repeatedly makes out the word "death" from the rustling of the ocean. The speaker of another of his poems declares that he sees the "clouds of the west" and the "flood tide below [him]" face to face, while the speaker of his most famous work states that "what [he] assumes, you shall assume" after proclaiming that he celebrates himself. For 10 points, name this American poet whose poems "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" and "Song of Myself" appear in Leaves of Grass.
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Literature

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He proudly labeled the territorial acquisitions he engineered the "epocha," and he proposed a compromise solution to the slavery question, which would allow Florida to enter the union as a slave state but free all children born after 1842. He received the only electoral vote not to go to James Monroe in 1820, and he later nominated his Treasury Secretary Richard Rush as his new Vice-Presidential candidate in his re-election campaign after his former understudy bolted to his opponent's ticket. Later, he presented up to twenty antislavery petitions a year in Congress in defiance of the gag rules. He was the chief U.S. negotiator for the Treaty of Ghent, the defender of the Amistad slaves, and the formulator of the Monroe Doctrine as Secretary of State, but he may be best known for the backroom dealing which defeated Andrew Jackson for this man's one successful national election in 1824. FTP, name this man who won the White House under the "corrupt bargain. "
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History

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R-colored ones result from retroflex or bunched contact and cause a lowered frequency in the third formant. They can differ in roundedness, backness, and height, and Spanish ones are often described as tense, while English ones can be tense or lax. Each has a unique sound known as its quality, and one that changes between two qualities during its duration is known as a diphthong. The amount of air that escapes through the nose during their articulation is known as nasalization. FTP, name these open-tract syllabic sounds in language whose English varieties include A, E, I, O, U, and sometimes Y.
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Literature