Unit 1 Flashcards
What poem compares America to Europe?
America for Me
What is the theme of A Jingle of Words?
The love of the American language
Who wrote America for Me?
Henry Van Dyke
Who wrote American Name and A Creed for an American?
Stephen Vincent Benét
Who wrote What is an American?
Hector St. John De Crèvecoeur
Who wrote America 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 Nation and the Gospel?
James Russell Lowell
Who was the author that was martyred at the hands of the Chinese?
Elizabeth Scott Stam
Rhyme
The correspondence of sounds
Rhythm
The regular recurrence of sounds
The repetition of the accented or stressed vowel sound and all succeeding sounds in words which come at the end of lines of poetry
End rhyme
A type of approximate rhyme in which initial consonant sounds are the same (as in tried and true)
Alliteration
The repetition of final consonant sounds (as in first and last)
Consonance
