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33 Cards in this Set
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Professor at Cambridge
Fireside/Schoolroom Poet |
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John Greenleaf Whittier
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Journalist
Fireside/Schoolroom Poet |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Doctor
Proffesor at Harvard Fireside/Schoolroom Poet |
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James Russell Lowell
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U.S. Minister to Britain
Fireside/Schoolroom Poet |
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William Cullen Bryant
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Lawyer
Editor of Saturady Evening Post |
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Founding Principle: U.S. born from a mistrust of governmental authority
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Progressive Principle: Government should and could exert more power to insure justice and well-being
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Founding Principle: Democratic government should be small and unobtrusive (laissez-faire)
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Progressive Principle: Simple, inflexible government is ineffective in a complex industrial age
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Founding Principle Government should interfere only to establish balance and then withdraw
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Public power is needed to counteract ineffeciency, corruption, and exploitation
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Issues of reform
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civil service (Pendellton Act)
non-partisan elections watch on expenditures poverty relief housing tax reform railroad regulation |
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local reform leaders
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city commisions
progressive mayors city commissions government style city manager/professional administration |
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state reform
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intiative
referendum recall direct election direct primary Australian ballot |
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National reform
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universal suffrage
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initiative
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petition for introduction for a bill
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referendum
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petition for a general vote on a bill
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recall
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petition to remove an elected official
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trochee
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stressed unstressed
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"Edna St. Vincent Milay, won't you come over to play"
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trochee
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anapest
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two unstressed one stressed
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dactyl
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one stressed and two unstressed
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spondee
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two stressed no unstressed
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pyrrhic
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two unstressed
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iamb
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unstressed then stressed
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"To be or not to be"
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iamb
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hexameter
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six feet
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seven feet
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heptameter
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pentameter
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five feet
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repetition of intial consonant sounds or any vowel sound in closely associated words
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alliteration
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assonance
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similar vowel sounds in stressed syllables that end in different consonant sounds
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lake-fake
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rhyme
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lake-fate
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assonance
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consonance
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last word in line where final consonant is sam but vowels that preced them differ
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add-read
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consonance
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born-burn
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consonance (slant rhyme)
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