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the correspondence of sounds |
rhyme |
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an outstanding modern poet from New England |
Robert Frost |
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the literary term associated with using words which sound like what they mean |
onomatopoeia |
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a Christian statesman and brilliant orator from New England |
Daniel Webster |
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author of Letters from an American Farmer |
Hector St. John de Crevecoeur |
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a type of approximate rhyme in which initial consonant sounds are the same |
alliteration |
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a Presbyterian minister who wrote "America for Me" |
Henry Van Dyke |
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the repetition of vowel sounds |
assonance |
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the author of John Brown's Body and "AmericanNames" |
Stephen Vincent Benet |
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the repetition of final consonant sounds |
consonance |
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a missionary to China who also wrote poetry |
Elizabeth Scott Stam |
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the reason for America's greatness cited by James Russell Lowell in "The Nation and the Gospel" |
the gospel of Christ |
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a poet who wrote about the sea and fields around his home in Maine |
Robert P. Tristram Coffin |
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the philosophy or philosophies which The Portland Declaration seeks to counteract |
evolution, existentialism, materialism, socialism, totalitarianism, humanism, and atheism |
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the most obvious type of rhyme which is the repetition of the accented or stressed vowel sound and all succeeding sounds in words which come at the ends of lines of poetry |
end rhyme |
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a poet who used the pen name Nancy Boyd and who was known for Renascence and Other Poems |
Edna St. Vincent Millay |
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Who wrote: America for Me |
Henry Van Dyke |
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Who wrote: American Names |
Stephen Vincent Benet |
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Who wrote: What Is an American? |
Hector St. John de Crevecoeur |
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Who wrote: America Was Schoolmasters |
Robert P. Tristram Coffin |
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Who wrote: A Creed for Americans |
Stephen Vincent Benet |
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Who wrote: I Like Americans |
Nancy Boyd |
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Who wrote: A Jingle of Words |
Elizabeth Scott Stam |
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Who wrote: Liberty and Union |
Daniel Webster |
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Who wrote: The Gift Outright |
Robert Frost |
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Who wrote: The Portland Declaration |
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn |
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Who wrote: The Nation and the Gospel |
James Russell Lowell |
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Who was Henry Van Dyke? |
a diplomat abroad wanting to go home to America |
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Who was Stephen Vincent Benet? |
an American poet and short story writer; received a Pulitzer Prize for his major work, John Brown's Body, a long poem that describes the Civil War as seen through the eyes of various ordinary Americans |
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Who was Nancy Boyd? |
the pen name used by Edna St. Vincent Millay; best known for Renascence and Other Poems |
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Who was Robert P. Tristram Coffin? |
a poet, novelist, and essayist who was mainly inspired by the sea and fields around his home in Maine; earned the Pulitzer Prize; said of America "promises---promises kept" (no I did not make that up, he used a dash) |
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Who was Robert Frost? |
considered by many to be the outstanding American poet of the twentieth century |
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Who was Hector St. John de Crevecoeur |
a man who loved frontier life and encouraged other Europeans to settle in America; his best known work, Letters from an American Farmer, gives a vivid account of colonial America |
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Who was Elizabeth Scott Stam? |
a missionary to China; was martyred at the hands of the Chinese Communists; her story is told in The Triumph of John and Betty Stam by Mrs. Howard Taylor |
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Who was Henry Van Dyke? |
a versatile Presbyterian minister, writer, Princeton professor, and diplomat |
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Who was Daniel Webster? |
a Christian statesman and brilliant orator from New England, served as a congressman, senator, and secretary of state; "Liberty and Union" was a speech he gave during a debate with Senator Robert Hayne of South Carolina in 1830 |
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Summarize: America for Me |
a poem expressing his admiration of the following qualities of America: how she looks forward, innovates, is a brand new country, and how favorable she is in contrast with Europe |
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Summarize: American Names |
a poem that utilizes iconic American names to celebrate a number of historical events such as "Wounded Knee" |
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Summarize: What Is an American? |
an essay in which the author argues that an American has shed off the weight, pressure, and expectation that his ancestral past once wrought; he is a new man, a new creation |
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Summarize: America Was Schoolmasters |
a ... unique poem (in other words, it's lame) that argues that America (the land itself) disciplined and matured its citizens into great, hard-working people |
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Summarize the five main points of A Creed for Americans |
equality and opportunity, individual freedom (speech, assembly, religion), justice and law, responsibility, democracy |
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Summarize: I Like Americans |
a light-hearted poem with a touch of humor that makes fun of other nationalities in order to praise Americans |
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Summarize: A Jingle of Words |
a poem expressing the power of words; written by an author who must have understood the power of words as she was using words to bring others to Christ |
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Summarize: Liberty and Union |
a speech given in 1830 in which the speaker declares that there must not even be a contemplation of a broken union as it was through the union that liberty could reign; without unity, there is no liberty |
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Summarize: The Gift Outright |
an allusion to Christianity; Robert Frost claims that it was the destiny of Americans to live in this land as the land chose us long before we ever chose it |
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Summarize: The Nation and the Gospel |
James Russell Lowell states that skeptics have no right to bash on Christianity as it is the foundation that everything moral and good is built upon; there is not one morally right country that Christianity has not influenced |
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Summarize: The Portland Declaration |
in this exhaustive rant (you can tell I'm getting sick of writing these) the author argues against the precepts of leftist ideology and makes numerous declarations; to offer just a few: we have a Creator God, Man is above all the other beasts, and we serve a personal God; "If there is no personal God everything is permissible, and if God exists, everything is possible." |
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the regular recurrence of sounds |
rhythm |
