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25 Cards in this Set
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William Bradford
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Works: Of Plymouth Plantation
Genre: History Period: Puritan |
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Anne Bradstreet
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Works: Upon the Burning of our House, To My Dear and Loving Husband
Genre: Poetry Period: Puritan |
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Jonathan Edwards
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Works: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Genre: Sermon Period: Puritan |
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John Smith
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Works: General History of Virginia
Genre: History Peiod: Puritan |
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Edward Taylor
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Works: Huswifery, Upon a Spider Catching A Fly
Genre: Poem Period: Puritan |
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De Crevecour
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Works: Letters From An American Farmer
Genre: Epistle Period: Colonial |
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Ben Franklin
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Works: Poor Richards Almanack, The Autobiography
Genre: Almanack, Autobiography Period: Colonial |
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Patrick Henry
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Works: Speech in Virginia Convention
Genre: Oratory Period: Colonial |
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Thomas Paine
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Works: Crisis, Common Sense
Genre: Essay Period: Colonial |
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Phillis Wheatly
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Works: To His Excellency George Washington
Genre: Poetry Period: Colonial |
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William Cullen Bryant
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Works: To A Waterfowl, Thanatopsis
Genre: Poetry Period: Romantic |
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Works: Scarlet Letter (Novel), The Minister's Black Veil, Young Goodman Brown
Genre: Short Story Peiod: Romantic |
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Washington Irving
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Works: Rip Van Winkle, Devil and Tom Walker
Genre: Short Story Period: Romantic |
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Edgar Allen Poe
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Works: The Raven (Poem), The Tell-Tale Heart (Short Story), The Fall of The House of Usher (Short Story), Annabel Lee (Poem)
Period: Romantic |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Works: From Nature, From Self-Reliance, The Snowstorm, Concord Hymm
Genre: Poetry Period: New England Renaissance |
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Henry David Thorough
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Works: Civil Disobedience, From Walden
Genre: Essays Period: New England Renaissance |
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Emily Dickinson
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Works: Success is Couted Sweetest, The Soul Selects Its Own Society, Because I Could Not Stop For Death, I Never Saw A Moor, I Heard A Fly Buzz- When I Died, My Life Closed Twice- Before It's Close
Genre: Poetry Period: New England Renaissance |
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Oliver W. Holmes
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Works: Old Ironsides
Genre: Poetry Period: New England Renaissance |
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Henry W. Longfellow
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Works: A Psalm of Life, The Tide Rises And the Tide Falls
Genre: Poetry Period: New England Renaissance |
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James Russell Lowell
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Works: The First Snowfall
Genre: Poetry Period: New England Renassaince |
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John G. Whittier
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Works: From Snowbound
Genre: Poetry Period: New England Renaissance |
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Assonance
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Repitition of vowel sounds at the beginning of words or syllables
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Consonance
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Repitition of consanant sounds at the beginning words or accented syllables
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Alliteration
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Repitition of consanant sounds at the end of words or accented syllables
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Apostraphe
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A Speaker directly addresses an absent person or an inanimate object
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