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What is the presenting a discrepancy between appearance and reality or between expectation and fulfillment?

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Irony of the situation

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What is a strongly exaggerated simile or metaphor? On it the two objects being compared are so dismissal that the comparison becomes incongruous.

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Conceit

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What is a short narrative song written in stanzas?

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Ballad

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What is the use of words which appeal to our senses?

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Imagery

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What is an unrhymed iambic pentameter?

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Blank Verse

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What is a reference to mythology?

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Allusion

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What is an approximate rhyme in which initial consonant sounds are the same?

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Alliteration

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What is the corresponding of sounds?

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Rhyme

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What is a comparison in which human qualities are given to an inanimate object or an animal?

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Personification

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What is the regular recurrence of a sound?

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rhythm

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What is the line in poetry consisting of one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables?

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Foot

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What is the ridicule of a human folly or vice with the purpose of correcting it?

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Satire

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What suggests meaning or association of a word?

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Consonance

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What is iamb foot?

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[unaccented][accented]

Ex: “I ám” “A wáy”

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What type of writing style did the colonial era of writing use

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Plan, simple, and giving providence to God

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What is an implied comparison in which one thing is described in terms of another?

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Metaphor

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What is the occurrence of rhythm at regular intervals?

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Meter

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What is the repetition of sounds?

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Assonance

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What is anapest?

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[unaccented][unaccented][accented]

Ex: sibling being a PEST

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What is the reputation of accented or stressed vowel sound and all succeeding sounds in words which come at the end of lines of poetry?

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End Rhyme

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What were most of the writings of the colonial era recorded in?

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Diaries and journals

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What is dactyl foot?

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[accented][unaccented][unaccented]

Ex: a ptyraDACTYL (the accent mark is the head and the unaccented marks are the wings)

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What is using words which sound like what they mean?

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Onomatopeia

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What is saying the opposite of what is meant?

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Verbal Irony

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What was the first printed book in the US?
The bay psalm book
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What is it called when an all-knowing author is the narrator, who comments freely in the actions and characters?
Omniscient Point of View
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What is it called when the author presents the characters in action with no comment, allowing the reader to come to his own conclusions about them?
Objective Point of View
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Name the knickerbockers
Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, and William Cullen Bryant
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What is spondee foot?
[accented][accented] | Ex: 2 SPoons
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What kind of writer was James Fenimore Cooper?
A novelist
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What did James Fenimore Cooper write?
The leather-stocking tales
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What did John Winthrop write?
The history of New England
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What did William Bradford write?
Of Plymouth plantation
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Who loved John Smith?
Pocahontas
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Who was the first port to write verse in America?
Anne Bradstreet
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What is it called when the author tells the story of one character, using either first person or third person?
Limited Point of View
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Where was Roger Williams from?
Rhode Island
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What is the contrasting what a character says and what a reader or audience knows to be true?
dramatic Irony
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What was Anne Bradstreet's quote to remember?
"thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain!"
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Where was William Bradford from?
Plymouth
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What did Michael Wigglesworth write?
The day of doom
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What was the type of writing that William Cullen Bryant used?
Apostrophe
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What did Edward Taylor write?
Meditation one
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What did Anne Bradstreet write?
Verses upon the burnin of my house
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What did John Smith write?
The general history of Virginia and a true relation of Virginia
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What is trochee foot?
[accented][unaccented] | Ex: "máy be"
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Who was the most widely read Puritan poet?
Michael Wigglesworth
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Who was the best Puritan poet, but the least popular in terms of reading
Edward Taylor
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What did William Cullen Bryant write?
Thanatopsis( a meditation on death)
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What type of writing did Washington Irving do?
Short stories
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Where was Edgar Allen Poe from?
BALTIMORE SQUAD REP FAM
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What did Phyllis Wheatley write?
On being a slave from Africa
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What writing wrote with the focus of exposing sin and guilt?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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What type of writing did Edward Taylor use?
Metaphysical conceit
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What did Washington Irving write?
Sleepy hollow and Rip van Winkle
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What stories/poems did Edgar Allen Poe write?
A dream within a dream, Annabel Lee, the Raven, and the pit and the pendulum
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What did Benjamin Franklin write?
Autobiography, and poor Richards almanac
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What book was said to had sparked the American civil war ( per Abraham Lincoln's words )
Uncle Tom's Cabin
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What did Harriet Beecher Stowe write?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Who was governor of Massachusetts bay colony?
John Winthrop
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Who was governor of Rhode Island?
Roger williams
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Who wrote the rules to making a good short story?
Edgar Allen Poe
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Who wrote The Scarlet Letter?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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What kind of writer was William Cullen Bryant?
Poet
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Where was John Winthrop the governor of?
Massachusetts

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