ABeka Lit 11 - Chapter 1 - Identify terms
Terms
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- The correspondence of sounds
- rhyme
- An outstanding modern poet from New England
- Robert Frost
- The regular recurrence of sounds
- rhythm
- The repetition of vowel sounds
- Assonance
- The repetition of final consonant sounds
- Consonance
- A missionary to China who also wrote poetry
- Elizabeth Scott Stam
- The literary term associated with using words which sound like what they mean
- Onomatopoeia
- A Christian statesman and brilliant orator from New England
- Daniel Webster
- Author of "Letters from an American Farmer"
- Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur
- A type of approximate rhyme in which initial consonant sounds are the same
- Alliteration
- A Presbyterian minister who wrote "America for Me"
- Henry Van Dyke
- An artist from Iowa who painted "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere"
- Grant Wood
- The author of "John Brown's Body" and "American Names"
- Stephen Vincent Benét
- A poet who wrote about the sea and fields around his home in Maine
- Robert P. Tristram Coffin
- America's most beloved illustrator who painted a series entitled The Four Freedoms
- Norman Rockwell
- The reason for America's greatness cited by James Russell Lowell in "The Nation and the Gospel"
- Christian Belief
- A poet who used the pen name Namcy Boyd and who was known for "Renascence and Other Poems"
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- The philosophy or philosophies which "The Portland Declaration" seeks to counteract
- totalitarianism, socialism, tyranny, caste societies, "classless" societies, etc.
- 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
- The artist who painted characters from the small towns and scenes of rural life in the South and Midwest such as "Independence and the Opening of the West"
- Thomas Hart Benton