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Proverbs and Idioms flashcards
1
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A henpecked husband who loathes profitable labor

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Rip van winkle

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2
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Rips cantankerous wife

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Dame van winkle

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Who was the last Mohican. With the coming colonies, natives Americans are dying out and killing the culture

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Uncas

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4
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Loyalty and devotion to the nation.

Pride

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Nationalism

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Devotion to ones region. Holding the interest of the region over the countries need

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Sectionalism

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Westward expansion. They want the nation to be bigger

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Manifest destiny

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Thomas Jefferson bought from France. Doubled the size of America. Lewis and Clark.

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Louisiana purchase

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8
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Invented the reaper-cotton

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Cyrus McCormick

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9
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Invented the steam boat

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Robert Fulton

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10
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Invented the cotton gin

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Eli Whitney

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They tried to keep a balance between slave and free states. They were worried the glance would be off when Missouri wanted to be a slave state but they make Maine a free state.

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Missouri compromise

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12
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Repetition of vowel sounds within phrase or sentences

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Assonance

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13
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Repetition of consonants with different vowel sounds

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Consonance

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14
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Describing something which isn’t human as having human qualities

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Personification

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15
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Exaggeration; used to create emphasis

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Hyperbole

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16
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Born a slave in talbot county Maryland

Separated from his mother, Harriet Bailey, when he was still an infant.

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Frederick Douglass

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17
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Skalp born by whites raised by Indians

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Hawkeye

18
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Born near Huntington Long Island New York
Worked as printers apprentice and school teacher
Lived in New Orleans 4 months
Songs of myself

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Walt Whitman

19
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Attended Harvard
Could of been a teacher.
Tutor, surveyor, pencil manufacturer
Handyman to Ralph Emerson

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Henry David Thoreau

20
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Main character in “rappaccinis daughter”. Discovered Beatrice’s secret.

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Giovanni

21
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Rappacinis daughter.

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Beatrice

22
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Incidents of a slave girl.

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Harriet Jacobs. Linda Brent.

23
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Intellectual movement during the New England Renaissance. Particularly interested in the natural world and its relationship to humanity. believed that if they explored nature throughly they would come to know themselves and the universal trusts better. Thought that the human spirit is reflected in nature. All forms of being-God nature humanity- are spiritually untied through a shared universal soul

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Transcendentalism

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Leading transcendalist

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Ralph Emerson and Henry David Thoreau

25
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Mohican chief. Uncas father. Last Mohican.

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Chingachgook

26
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Artistic literary and intellectual movement that originated in Europe in the late 18th century.

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Romanticism

27
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Sleepy hallow

Katrina’s father. Huge house and land.

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Baltus van tassel

28
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Sleepy hallow.

Strong and rough. Street smart. Lots of friends. Resident alpha male. Awesome horseman.

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Brom van brunt

29
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Ichabods current landlord. Burns ichabods books.

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Hans van ripper.

30
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Main character in sleepy hallow. Chicken. Crybaby. Wimp. Loves scary stories but scared of everything specifically the supernatural. Will do anything to have people like it but hates everyone.

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Ichabod crane

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Likes ichabod crane. Pretty and smart.

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Katrina van tassel

32
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Wrote last of the Mohicans.

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James fenimore Cooper.

33
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A genre or mode of literature that combines function horror Death and romance.

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Gothic literature

34
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American abolitionist. Journalist. Suffragist. Apical reformer. Newspaper called the liberator.

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William Lloyd garrison

35
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Abolitionist. Believed armed insurrection was the only way to overthrow slavery.

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John brown

36
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Wrote self reliance. Led the transcendental its movement.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

37
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Who wrote Barteby, the scrivener

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Herman Melville

38
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In Harriet Jacobs incidents, who was the slave owner?

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Dr. Flint

39
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In Harriet Jacobs incidents, who was the neighbor and had a baby with her?

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Mr. Sands

40
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Who wrote rip van winkle and sleepy hollow?

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Washington Irving

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