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non-fiction english
non-fiction english final review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| biography | someones life story told by someone else |
| autobiography | someones life story told by themself |
| first hand history | history told by someone that lived through the event |
| second hand history | history told by someone who researched an event but didnt live through it |
| analogy | comparison made to show similarities |
| allusion | indirect reference to something |
| paradox | contradictory but has truth to it |
| repetition | repeating words or phrase |
| rhetorical questioning | questioning not meant to be answered |
| parallel structure | a balance of two or more similar words, phrases, or clauses |
| tone | sound or quality of something |
| satire | use of sarcasm |
| first person | story told by the person involved in the event from their point of view using words like i, me, myself, and we. |
| third person omniscient | knowing the thoughts of more than one character |
| third person limited | thoughts from only one character |
| theme | a message about life that is revealed through a literary work . stated as a sentence. |
| universal theme | a message about life that can be understood by people of most cultures and across periods of years |
| age of reason | |
| sinners in the hands of an angry god | sermon by jonathan edwards in which he preached to his people about hell |
| speech to the virginia convention | henrys give me life or give me death speech |
| nature | book by emerson about transcendentism |
| civil disobedience | essay by thoreau about your right to follow your conscience |
| narrative of the life of frederick douglass | singing songs in field. he was an american slave himself |
| aint i a woman | by truth. speech that questioned the rights of women |
| day of infamy speech | by fdr. to congress on the day that japan attacked pearl harbor |
| hiroshima | book by hersey. six storys about the atomic bomb dropping and their expierences with it |
| inaugural address | by jfk about the foreign policy |
| black boy | by wright. wasnt allowed to read which made him want to read more |
| edwards | african american author and wrote poems |
| jfk | inaugural address |
| hersey | american jornalist |
| truth | African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist |
| douglass | an african american abolitionist and author |
| thoreau | American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist |
| emerson | American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th ... |
| henry | American attorney, planter and politician who became known as an orator during the movement for independence |
| edwards | an american preacher |
| great awakening | A movement rooted in spiritual growth which brought national identity to Colonial America |
| transcendentalism | beyond what we can see...existence of an ideal spiritual reality that transcends the empirical and scientific and is knowable through intuition |
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