Semester 1 Final Flashcards

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Edward Taylor

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Puritan wrote: Huswifery

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Native American Lit stories

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

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Anne Bradstreet:

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Puritan wrote: To My Dear and Loving Husband;
Verse Upon the Burning of Our Home
By Night While Others Soundly Slept

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Jonathan Edwards wrote?

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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

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Nathaniel Cole wrote?

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The Great Awakening Comes to Weathersfield, Connecticut

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Benjamin Franklin

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Enlightenment Thinker/Founding Father wrote: The Autobiography, Poor Richard’s Almanack, Speech in the Convention

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Thomas Paine

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Enlightenment thinker/founding father wrote: The Crisis

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Patrick Henry

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Enlightenment thinker/founding father wrote: Speech in the Virginia Convention

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M. G. J. de Crevècoeur

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Founding father/enlightenment thinker wrote:
Letters from an American Farmer
The U.S. Constitution

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Washington Irving

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Romantic writer, wrote: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

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Walt Whitman

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Romantic writer, wrote: 
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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Romantic Writer, wrote:
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
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Fireside Poet, wrote: 
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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Fireside poet wrote:

Old Ironsides

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William Cullen Bryant

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Fireside Poet wrote:

Thanatopsis

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James Russell Lowell

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Fireside poet, wrote:

The First Snowfall

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Edgar Allen Poe

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Gothic writer, wrote:
The Raven,
The Bells,
Annabel Lee

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Herman Melville

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Pessimist wrote:

Moby Dick

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Pessimist wrote: The Hollow in the Three Hills

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Transcendentalist wrote: Nature, Self-Reliance

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Henry David Thoreau:

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Transcendentalist wrote: Walden, Civil Disobedience

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Allusion

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an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

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Slogan

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A short, attention-getting expression

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Alliteration

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Rhyme with end constant sounds

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Metaphor

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a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

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Mood

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The atmosphere that pervades a literary work with the intention of evoking a certain emotion or feeling from the audience.

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Parallelism

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the use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in their construction, sound, meaning or meter.

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Onomatopoeia

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the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g., cuckoo, sizzle ).

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True Rhyme

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is a form of rhyme between two words or phrases, satisfying the following conditions: The stressed vowel sound in both words must be identical, as well as any subsequent sounds.

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Olaudah Equiano wrote

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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano