American Literature- Unit #1 Flashcards
Who wrote American for Me?
Henry Van Dyke
Who wrote The Flag Goes By?
Henry Holcomb Bennett
Who wrote A Creed For Americans?
Stephen Vincent Benét
Who wrote What Is an American?
Hector St. John De Crévecoeur
Who wrote American Was Schoolmasters?
Robert P. Tristram Coffin
Who wrote A Jingle of Words?
Elizabeth Scott Stam
Who wrote Liberty and Union?
Daniel Webster
Who wrote The Portland Declaration?
Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Who wrote The Nation and the Gospel?
James Russell Lowell
Who wrote American Names?
Stephen Vincent Benét
Super quick summary of America for Me
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.
Super quick summary of The Flag Goes By
To show respect to what the American flag stands for
Super quick summary for A Creed for Americans
This showed the beliefs that are essential to our system of government; We believe…
Super quick summary of What Is an American?
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
Super quick summary of America Was Schoolmasters
American taught “children” morals that shaped our minds like schoolmasters used to do
Rhyme
The correspondence of sounds
Rhythm
The regular recurrence of sounds
End rhyme (most obvious type of rhyme)
The repetition of the accented or stressed vowel sound and all succeeding sounds in words which come at the ends of lines in poetry.
Alliteration
Type of approximate rhyme in which initial consonant sounds are the same
Example: tried and true; safe or sorry.
Consonance
The repetition of final consonant sounds
Example: First and last; loves and lives (the end consonants are the same)
Assonance
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)
Onomatopoeia
Words which sound like what they mean
Example: growl, hiss, pop
Super quick summary of A Jingle of Words
Words are beautiful, powerful, and mighty. They sound nice too; Onomatopoeias
Super quick summary of Liberty and Union
We cannot have a union if we don’t have liberty. What things would look like if we got into a civil war
Super quick summary of (from) The Portland Declaration
What ideologies threaten the free world
Some are:
Socialism
Communism
Materialism
Evolution
Sameness
Transgender-ism
Totalitarianism
Super quick summary of The Nation and the Gospel
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
Read James Russell Lowells (1819-1891)
Read Daniel Webster (1782-1852)
Read Elizabeth Scott Stam (1906-1934)
Read Robert P. Tristram Coffin (1892-1955)
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Read Hector St. John de Crévecoeur (1735-1813)
Read Stephen Vincent Benét (1898-1943)
Read Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933)
“They taught the nation fairness, thrift, and the golden tongue.”
American Was Schoolmasters
“The American is a new man who act upon new principles. He must therefore entertain new ideas and form new opinions.”
What Is an American?
