Abeka American Literature Units 1-6 (Test 6) and Scarlet Letter

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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