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Exam Study Guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | Scarlet Letter & Minister's Black Veil |
| Washington Irving | The Devil in Tom Walker |
| Langston Hughes | I, too |
| Angela De Hoyos | To Walt Whitman |
| Michel- Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur | Letters from an American Farmer |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Nature , Self Reliance |
| Edward Taylor | Huswifery |
| Jonathan Edwards | Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God |
| Walt Whitman | I hear America Singing |
| Abigail Adams | Letter to Her Daughter From the New White House |
| Olaudah Equiano | The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano |
| Henry David Thoreau | Civil Disobedience |
| Arthur Miller | Crucible |
| Edgar Allan Poe | Fall of the House of Usher , The Raven , |
| Abraham Lincoln | Dear Mrs. Bixby |
| Ann Bradstreet | Letter to my Dear Loving Husband |
| Metaphor | two things that aren't alike compared “a mighty fortress is our god” |
| Simile | two unlike things compared using like or as |
| Juxtaposition | the state of being close together to compare “the young and the old” |
| Paradox | statement that is contradictory or opposed to common sense “bittersweet” |
| Assonance | repetition of vowels in neighboring words “it beats as it sweeps as it cleans” |
| Consonance | repetition of consonants “pitter patter” |
| Alliteration | repeated first consonant “ladera’s lizard licks lips.” |
| Onomatopoeia | words that sound like objects they name “zip, meow” zipper & cat |
| Indirect Characterization | self explanatory |
| Direct Characterization | self explanatory |
| Scansion | Iamb (2 syllables: unstressed & stressed) Trochee (stressed & unstressed Anapest (Unstressed, unstressed, stressed) Dactyl (stressed, unstressed, unstressed) Spondee (stressed, stressed) Pyrrhic (unstressed, unstressed) |
| Meters | 1 foot – monometer 2 feet – dimeter 3 feet – trimester 4 feet – tetrameter 5 feet – pentameter 6feet – hexameter 7 feet – heptameter 8 feet – octometer 9 feet – nanometer |
| Metonymy | related objects or concepts |
| Synecdoche | part of something used to be described other as a whole |
| Analogy | two unlike things being compared |
| Allusion | Referring to something |
| Symbol | represents objects, idea, people |
| Imagery | painting mental picture |
| Parallelism | comparing two things |
| Anaphora | repetition of words in more than one line |
| Single Effect | Edgar Allan Poe |
| Three Fireside poets | Oliver Wendall Holmes John Greenleaf Whittier Henry Wadsworth Long fellow |
| Types of love | Agape Philia/Philial Eros |
| Parable | Teaches a moral lesson |
| Themes | Implicit & Explicit |
| Implicit? | Implied |
| Explicit? | Somewhere in the story it is explained |
| The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Types of Irony | Situation, Verbal, Dramatic |
| Frame Story | A story within a story |
| Euphonious | Good sounding |
| Cacophony | Harsh mixture of words |
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