Abeka American Literature Units 1-6 (Test 6) and Scarlet Letter
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van Dyke
wrote America for Me
Bennett
wrote The Flag goes By
Benét
wrote A Creed for Americans, American Names, and John Browns Body
Coffin
wrote America was Schoolmasters
A Jingle of Words
“In words you have a weapon more weighty than a gun. you can sway the multitude of stir the heart of one”
Daniel Webster
wrote Liberty and Union
assonance
repetition of vowel sounds
onomatopoeia
using words which sound like what they mean
rhyme
correspondence of sounds
rhythm
regular recurrence of sounds
end rhyme
repetition of the accented or stressed vowel sound and all succeeding sounds in words which come at the end of lines of poetry
alliteration
type of approximate rhyme in which initial consonant sounds are the same
consonance
repetition of final consonant sounds
Lowell
The Nation and the Gospel
They have Yarns
Carl Sandburg
free verse
has no metrical pattern
dialect
words and pronunciations which are peculiar to a people in a certain section of a country or a certain class if people
cacography
misspellings
Artemus Ward
wrote my life story
Twain
wrote The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and the Innocents Abroad
Will Rogers
part Cherokee oral humorist
Irving
wrote Rip van Winkle
short story
an imaginative prose narrative written to give the reader entertainment and insight
Irving
the first American short story writer (inventor of the short story)
point of view
method of presenting the reader with the ante rials of the story; the perspective from which it is told
omniscient
all knowing author
limited point of view
viewpoint of one character using first or third person
objective pov
character in action with no comment
verbal irony
saying the opposite of what is meant
dramatic irony
contrasting what a character says and what a reader knows to be true
irony of situation
presenting a discrepancy between appearance or reality or between expectation and futile meant
satire
ridicule of human folly or vice with the propose of correcting it
Blackwell Island
where soapy wanted to go
Bray sisters
sisters Mrs Trimble and Miss Wright visited
Jewett
wrote the Town Poor
The Open Boat
“none of them knew the color of the sky”
cook, oiler, correspondent, and, the injured captain
four ppl on the open boat
Crane
wrote the Open Boat
eight
number of people after the great carbuncle
wilder (one of Americas most well known playwrights)
wrote the unerring instinct
John Smith
wrote the first book in American literature
Bay Psalm Book
first book printed in America
Bradford
wrote of Plymouth Plantation- Americas first history book
meter
when rhyme occurs at regular intervals
foot
pattern in a line of poetry consisting of one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables
Williams
wrote a key into the language of America
allusion
reference to history or mythology
Bradstreet
first poet to write verse in America
Wigglesworth
most widely read poet of Puritan New England
conceit
strongly exaggerated similar or metaphor
Hopkinson
wrote the Battle of the Kegs
Wheatley
second American woman to publish a book of poems
Bartram
wrote and escape from alligators
Bryant
first eminent poet of nature
Cooper
first novelist
Irving
first writer of creative stories and sketches
Irving
wrote a republic of prairie dogs
Cooper
wrote a rescue
deerslayer
natty bumpo
thanatopsis
Bryant
Annabel Lee
“we loved with a love that was greater than love”
Shiloh
civil war poem by Mellville
stowe and Dana
sympathetic portrayal of the mistreated and the downtrodden
Dana
wrote two years before the mast
Longfellow
most popular American poet of the ninetieth century
Whittier
Quaker, wrote snow bound
Holmes
Mr. Boston and wrote the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
snow bound
greatest pastoral poem
Longfellow
poet with bust in Westminster abbey
Whittier
the book our mothers read
Longfellow
Paul reveres ride
the lovers errand
“why don’t you speak for yourself John”
Whittier
maud Muller
Lowell
the courtin’
Lowell
the present crisis
Holmes
Old Ironsides
Longfellow
Hiawathas wooing
What is an American
“America is a new man”
The Arrow and the Song
what has the theme of our actions have far reaching consequences
Miles Standish
who sent john alden to propose
Value of the Bible
refers to the Bible as the pearl of great price
prascilla
who did John Alden go to propose to
The Courtin’
what story were the characters Zekl and Holdy from
Coffin
who wrote “thrift in the gold tongue”
4th of July Ode
“fathers fought for liberty”
conflict
struggle between opposing forces
hester
who said “thou shalt forgive me”
Thanatopsis
meditation on death
direct exposition
telling the reader directly what the character is like
3
how many scaffold scenes were there
John Smith
captured by Powahatan
Winthrop
governor
blank verse
unrhymed iambic pentameter
meter
rhythm occurring at regular intervals
Samuel Sowell
courted Madame Winthrop
Sarah Knight
wrote my journey from boston to NY
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