Literature 2nd Quarter (terms) Flashcards
1
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America’s first real imaginative writers
A
Knickerbockers
2
Q
Authors who are highly imaginative, symbolic, and idealistic quests
A
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Edgar Allen Poe
3
Q
Questions expressing some idea but to which no answer is required or expected
A
Rhetorical questions
4
Q
First part of sentences sounds are repeated
A
Alliteration
5
Q
Comparison not using like or as
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Metaphor
6
Q
Descriptions used to appeal to our senses
A
Imagery
7
Q
Comparison that does use like or as
A
Simile
8
Q
End sound repeated
A
Consonance
9
Q
Writers who wrote on sympathetic portrayal of the mistreated and the downtrodden
A
Harriet Beecher Stowe and Richard Henry Dana
