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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Wrote Paul Revere’s Ride
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wrote Concord Hymn
Daniel Webster
Wrote Libery and Union
Billy Sunday
Wrote Nuts for Skeptics to Crack
Jonathan Edwards
Wrote Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
William Cullen Bryant
Wrote Thanatopsis
James Fenimore Cooper
Wrote A Rescue
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Wrote A World Split Apart
Sidney Lanier
Wrote Song of the Chattahoochee
Jesse Stuart
Wrote The Thread that Runs So True
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Wrote We Wear a Mask
Anne Bradstreet
Wrote The Author to Her Book
Phillis Wheatley
Wrote On Being Brought from Africa to America
Elizabeth Scott Stam
Wrote “In words you have a weapon, More weighty than a gun”
Martha Snell Nicholson
Wrote “The twig was bent, the tree inclined/ And so his heart and soul and mind…”
Robert Frost
Wrote ” So all who hide too well away/Must speak and tell us where they are.”
Marianne Moore
Wrote ” My father used to say /Superior people never make long visits”
Washington Irving
1st American author to be recognized internationally
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Wrote The Scarlett Letter
Chillingworth
Hester’s husband
Dimmesdale
Chillingworth wanted revenge on who?
Chillingworth
Said “thou has escaped me”
Scarlett Letter
Sin has consequences
The Baby Party
“I’ve never heard anybody so rude and ccommon in my life”
Cabbage is Beautiful
“Daintiness…should be the keynote of her supper box”
Contents of the Dead Mans Pocket
“And to live even a few seconds longer, he felt, even here on this ledge in the night, was infinitely better than to die a moment earlier than he had to”
The Enemy
“There is something about him that looks American”
Mr KAPLAN Cuts the Gordian Knot
“Humans should not be like Enimals! They should be Thinking!
Old Man at the Bridge
“The fact that cats know how to look after themselves was all the good luck the old man would ever have”
The Baby Party
“When John Andros felt old he found solace in the thought of life continuing through his child”
Mama and the Hospital
“Almost” she said wearily “almost did I get down the hall”
Walt Whitman
Wrote o Captain! My captain!
Fanny Crosby
Outstanding hymn writer of 19c
James Whitcomb Riley
Wrote When the Frost in on the Punkin
Lew Wallace
Wrote Ben Hur
Ray Bradbury
Wrote The Pedestrian
Mr Mead
Arrested while walking
Moby Dick
America’s only EPIC
Josh Billings
Wrote The Mule
Mark Twain
Wrote mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning
Joel Chandler Harris
Wrote Uncle Remus
Douglas MacArthur
Wrote My Father’s Prayer
Stephen Foster
America’s song composer
Conjugal Harmony
Theme – happy home
Fable
Theme – everyone and everything has a purpose
A Ballad of Trees and the Master
Theme – Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane
Philadelphia Childhood
Marian Anderson’s life
Onomatopoeia
Word itself makes sound
Personification
Giving inanimate objects/animals qualities of a human
Alliteration
Repeat of 1st consonant in words
Simile
Comparison using like or as
Dialect
Wording which is written per a geographic area, time period, or accent
Assonance
Repeat Rhyming mid word
Metaphor
Direct Comparison using is
Tone
Attitude or emotion author has towards subject
Symbol
Something that has meaning in itself and represents another thing as well
Aphorism
Compact staten expressing truth
Fireside poets
Group of poets people enjoyed at home with family and friends
Muckrakers
Name of group of naturalist writers who believed people are victims of their environment
Edgar Allen Poe
American detective story and horror poetry
The Experiences of the AC
Enos Billings
Hiawatha’s Wooing
Nokomis
The Unerring Instinct
Belinda Watson
The Great Carbuncle
Mattew & Hannah
The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calvares County
Simon Wheeler
Cabbage is Beautiful
Selina Peake
Spoon River Anthology
Emily Sparks
Mission Accomplished
Jim Elliot
The Thread That Runs So True
Guy Hawkins
The Hoosier School Master
Ralph Harstock
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