Finals Study Guide Flashcards

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William Bradford

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Of Plymouth plantation

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John Smith

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The general history of Virginia

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Edward Taylor

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Huswifery

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Anne Bradsteet

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  • To my dear and loving husband

- by night while others soundly slept

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Jonathan Edwards

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  • sinners in the hands of an angry God

- The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

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Benjamin Franklin

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  • the autobiography
  • poor Richards almanac
  • speech in the convention
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Thomas Paine

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The crisis

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Patrick Henery

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Speech in the Virginia convention

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M. G. J. de Crevècoeur

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  • letters from an American farmer

- the U.S constitution

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Washington Irving

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The legend of sleepy hollow

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Walt Whitman

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  • song of myself
  • O captain, My captain
  • when I heard the learn’d astronomer
  • I hear America singing
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Emily Dickinson

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  • Because I Could Not Stop for Death
  • Water, is Taught by Thirst
  • I Heard a Fly Buzz—When I Died
  • There’s a Certain Slant of Light
  • The Brain is Wider than the Sky
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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  • Tide Rises, Tide Falls
  • Psalm of Life
  • Song of Hiawatha
  • The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
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Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Old Ironsides

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William Cullen Bryant

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Thanatopsis

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James Russell Lowell

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The first snowfall

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Edgar Allen Poe

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  • the raven
  • the bells
  • Annabel lee
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Herman Melville

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Moby Dick

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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The hollow in the three hills

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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  • nature

- self-reliance

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Henry David Thoreau

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  • walden

- civil disobedience

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Puritans/early colonists

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  • John Smith
  • William Bradford
  • Edward Taylor
  • Anne Bradstreet
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Enlightenment Thinkers/Founding Fathers

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  • Benjamin Franklin
  • Thomas Paine
  • Patrick Henry
  • M. G. J. de Crevècoeur
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Romantics

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  • Washington Irving
  • Walt Whitman
  • Emily Dickinson
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Fireside poets

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  • Henry Wadsworth Lonfellow
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • William Cullen Bryant
  • James Russell Lowell
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Gothic

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Edgar Allen Poe

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Pessimists

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  • Herman Melville

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Transcendentalists

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson

- Henry David Thoreau

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Appeal to reason

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Using logic to help prove a point

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Slant rhyme

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Filling a rhyme

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Allusion

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an indirect reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, etc.

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Slogan

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a phrase or short sentence that rallies people up

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Hyperbole

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Exaggeration

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Internal rhyme

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when two words in the same line rhyme

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Appeal to authority

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using an authority figure to help prove a point

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Alltiteration

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repetition of beginning consonant sounds

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Metephor

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a figure of speech that implies a comparison between two unlike things

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Rhetorical questions

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Question that doesn’t have to be answered

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Repetition

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repeated words or phrases, usually used for emphasis

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Appeal to emotion

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using emotion to help prove a point

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Mood

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The emotion of the piece

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Simile

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a figure of speech that implies a comparison between two unlike things, using “like” or “as.”

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Parallelism

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a repeated grammatical structure (parts of speech)

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Imagery

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creates a picture in your mind

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Personification

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giving a non-human creature or thing human-like characteristics

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True rhyme

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normal rhyme - exactness

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Single effect

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wants you to have one main idea/feeling/thought while reading it

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Gothic

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Bleak or remote settings - Macabre or violent incidents- Characters in psychological and/or physical torment- Supernatural or otherworldly elements

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End rhyme

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normal rhyme- location

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Native American Lit

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  • The Earth on Turtle’s Back
  • When Grizzlies Walked Upright
  • Iroquois Constitution