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American Literature- Unit #1 Flashcards

1
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Who wrote American for Me?

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Henry Van Dyke

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Who wrote The Flag Goes By?

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Henry Holcomb Bennett

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Who wrote A Creed For Americans?

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Stephen Vincent Benét

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Who wrote What Is an American?

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Hector St. John De Crévecoeur

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Who wrote American Was Schoolmasters?

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Robert P. Tristram Coffin

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Who wrote A Jingle of Words?

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Elizabeth Scott Stam

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Who wrote Liberty and Union?

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Daniel Webster

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Who wrote The Portland Declaration?

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Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

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Who wrote The Nation and the Gospel?

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James Russell Lowell

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Who wrote American Names?

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Stephen Vincent Benét

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Super quick summary of America for Me

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It was written by Henry Van Dyke while he was in Europe. In the poem, he says that Europe is nice, but there is no place like America for a home. He misses home; America.

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Super quick summary of The Flag Goes By

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To show respect to what the American flag stands for

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Super quick summary for A Creed for Americans

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This showed the beliefs that are essential to our system of government; We believe…

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Super quick summary of What Is an American?

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Pretty much all those that live in America are American. Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men. Better system than that of Europe

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Super quick summary of America Was Schoolmasters

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American taught “children” morals that shaped our minds like schoolmasters used to do

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Rhyme

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The correspondence of sounds

17
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Rhythm

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The regular recurrence of sounds

18
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End rhyme (most obvious type of rhyme)

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The repetition of the accented or stressed vowel sound and all succeeding sounds in words which come at the ends of lines in poetry.

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Alliteration

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Type of approximate rhyme in which initial consonant sounds are the same

Example: tried and true; safe or sorry.

20
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Consonance

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The repetition of final consonant sounds

Example: First and last; loves and lives (the end consonants are the same)

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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds

Example: mile, time, mind; beach, easy, leaf(all make long e sound); said, ready, regret (all make short e sounds); (vowels SOUNDS are the same)

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Onomatopoeia

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Words which sound like what they mean

Example: growl, hiss, pop

23
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Super quick summary of A Jingle of Words

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Words are beautiful, powerful, and mighty. They sound nice too; Onomatopoeias

24
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Super quick summary of Liberty and Union

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We cannot have a union if we don’t have liberty. What things would look like if we got into a civil war

25
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Super quick summary of (from) The Portland Declaration

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What ideologies threaten the free world

Some are:
Socialism
Communism
Materialism
Evolution
Sameness
Transgender-ism
Totalitarianism

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Super quick summary of The Nation and the Gospel

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Even those that claim there is no God benefits from the blessings God has given them; without Christians, the world would be awful! Unbeliever benefit from believers because they, with God, tamed the wild sinful beast humans are

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Read James Russell Lowells (1819-1891)

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28
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Read Daniel Webster (1782-1852)

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29
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Read Elizabeth Scott Stam (1906-1934)

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30
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Read Robert P. Tristram Coffin (1892-1955)

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D

31
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Read Hector St. John de Crévecoeur (1735-1813)

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32
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Read Stephen Vincent Benét (1898-1943)

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33
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Read Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933)

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34
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“They taught the nation fairness, thrift, and the golden tongue.”

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American Was Schoolmasters

35
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“The American is a new man who act upon new principles. He must therefore entertain new ideas and form new opinions.”

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What Is an American?

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