American Literature Flashcard
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the educator who compiled America's first dictionary
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Noah Webster
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the first American writer to become famous throughout the world
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Washington Irving
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the author of "poor Richard's Almanac"
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Benjamin Franklin
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the author of "Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning"
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Mark Twain
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what essay was written as a defense against humanistic philosophy
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"Liberty and Union"
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rhythm occurring at regular intervals is called
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meter
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the arrangement of events for a story is called
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plot
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the attitude of the narrator toward the subject or audience is called
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tone
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what is the theme of "meditation one"
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God's amazing love
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what is the theme of "A jingle of words"
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the power of words
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what is the theme of "The great carbuncle"
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motivation reveals character
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what is the theme of "The author to Her book"
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poet's inadequacies
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what is the theme of " American Names"
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love of American places
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found the great carbuncle
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Matthew and Hannah
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drowned trying to get to shore
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the oiler
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tried to get arrested
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soapy
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slept for twenty years
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Rip Van Winkle
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wanted to kill John Smith
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Powhatan
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recounted a frog story
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Simon Wheeler
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injured during a shipwreck
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the captain
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tells sister-in-law that the Smith family is ruthless
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Leonora Thorpe
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"Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain"
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"The Author to Her Book"
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"I did not bid her draw off her gloves as sometimes I had done. Her dress was not so clean as sometime it had been. Jehovah jireh!"
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"The Courtship of Madam Withdrop"
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"It was hope...that whispers to the death-condemned even in the dungeons of the inquisition"
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"The Pit and Pendulum"
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"For at midnight broke forth a light, which turned the night to day, And speedily a hideous cry did all the world dismay"
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The Day of Doom
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"Boast not, proud English, of thy birth and blood, Thy brother Indian is by birth as good."
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A Key into the Language of America
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"They struck their jaws together so close to my ears as almost to stun me, and I expected every moment to be dragged out of the boat and instantly devoured."
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"An Escape from Alligators"
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"Being thus arrived in a good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of Heaven who has brought them over the vast and furious ocean."
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Of Plymouth Plantation
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"The bumble iz a kind ov big fly" is an example of what?
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dialect
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"the light did spy, .....my heart did cry" is an example of what?
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end rhyme
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"Cackle, crack, yowl, and yap" are examples of?
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onomatopoeia
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"to make the Future free,-"
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alliteration
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"Gallants, attend, and hear a friend Trill forth harmonious ditty: Strange things I'll tell, which late befell In Philadelphia city."
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ballad
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"Lord, blow the coal, Thy love enflame me."
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conceit
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"I blest His name that gave and took"
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allusion
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who wrote "On being brought from Africa to America"
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Phillis Wheatley
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who wrote "of Plymouth plantation"
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William Bradford
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who wrote "Rip Van Winkle"
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Washington Irving
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who wrote "The open boat"
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Stephen Crane
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who wrote the quote," Lord, blow the coal, thy live enflame me"
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Edward Taylor
