lit questions

wanted to marry priscilla

miles standish, john alden

priscilla love

john alden

who did hiawatha want to marry

minnehaha

did not want to hiawatha to marry minnehaha

grandmother nacomas

meter that longfellow used in “paul revere’s ride”

anapestic and dactilic tetrameter

theme of “nature”

death

an angle formed by a tangent and a chord drawn from the point of tangency is measured by one half the intercepted arc

theorem 44

longfellow said could be “ victory in disguise”

defeat

nature compared to

mother

expresses the far reaching consequences of our our actions

the arrow and the song

group of poets that were meant to be enjoyed with fam and friends

schoolroom poets/fireside poets

poem expresses the simple thought of complete trust in God

Dear Lord and father of mankind

god is always good

eternal goodness of our father

paradox in “ the value of the bible”

the bible is priceless but it isnt something we need to pay for

bible produce within us

inward beauty

americas greatest pastoral poem

snowbound

prayed that he could be of help to someone

andre reichman

poem about the constitution

old ironsides

how was the poem “ old ironside” ironic

his desire was to save the vessel but he said he was going to tear it down

expresses positive view of labor and its achievements

the plowman

wrote “ a sunday hymn”

holmes

metaphors in the plowman

page=field words=crops scholar= farmer/plowman

holdey in love with

ziekel

biblical values are absolute and will not change

international copywright

old ironsides author

holmes

not dwell on past accomplishments

the present crisis

poem shows love for words

jingle of words

expresses that there are false philosophies that will destroy

portland declaration

american names , a creed for americans author

Benet

the word of god will never make a nation worse

the nation of the gospel

initial consonant is same

alliteration

end consonant is the same

consonance

middle vowel sound the dame

assonance

“ they taught the nation fairness thrift and the golden tongue”

america was schoolmasters, written coffin

tourists being incredibly mean to their tour guides

innocnts abroad

they have yarns

sandburg

the notorious jumping frog of calabaras county

mark twain

wrote “reflections of an american life, a collection of saying”

rogers

the bumblebee, the mule

josh bilings

my life story

artimas ward

prisoner tortured

the pitt and the pendulum

man wishes to get arrested

the cop and the anthem

bray sisters presented

the town poor

correspondent and captain

the open boat

wrote the open boat

stephen crane