Abeka American Literature Units 1-2 – Flashcards
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America for Me
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Henry Van Dyke
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The Flag Goes By
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Henry Holcomb Bennett
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A Creed for Americans
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Stephen Vincent Benet
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What is an American?
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Hector St. John do Crevecoeur
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America Was Schoolmasters
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Robert P. Tristram Coffin
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A Jingle of Words
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Elizabeth Scott Stam
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Liberty and Union
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Daniel Webster
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The Portland Declaration
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Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
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The Nation and the Gospel
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James Russel Lowell
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American Names
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Stephen Vincent Benet
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They Have Yarns
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Carl Sandburg
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My Life Story
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Artemus Ward
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A Business Letter
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Artemus Ward
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The Mule The Bumblebee
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Josh Billings
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The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
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Mark Twain
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Reflections on American Life: A Collection of Sayings
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Will Rogers
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"Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars."
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America For Me
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"Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air; And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers in her hair;"
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America For Me
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"a blare of bugles"
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An alliteration
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"The American is a new man, who acts upon new principles; he must therefore entertain new ideas, and form new opinions."
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What is an American
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"They taught the nation fairness, Thrift, and golden tongue."
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America Was Schoolmasters
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Correspondence of sounds
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rhyme
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A regularly recurrence of sounds
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rhythm
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The repition of the accented or stressed vowel sound and all succeeding sounds in words which come at the ends of lines of poetry
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end rhyme
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a type of approximate ryhme in which initial consonant sounds are the same
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Alliteration
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the repetition of vowel sounds as in a mile
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Assonance
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using words which sound like what they mean
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Onomatopoeia
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"Clatter, pop, and bang, Scrape, and creak, and snarl, and snort,"
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A jingle of words
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"In words you have weapon, More weighty than a gun-"
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A Jingle of Words
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"The family is the living cell of every society"
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The Portland Declaration
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"I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass. Bury my heart at Wounded Knee."
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American Names
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Has no metrical pattern
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Free Verse
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Tells the story of the narrator
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Simon Wheeler
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conversation between characters
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Dialogue
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the arrangement of incidents
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Plot of the story
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Samuel Clemens
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Mark Twain
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Part Cherokee Indian and an outstanding oral humorist
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Will Rogers
