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Mindsets

Authors

Works
     Literary Terms
FIRST SEMESTER
           
            Puritan
Colonial
  
 Anne Bradstreet
  
 Poetry of Anne Bradstreet
  extended metaphor

 Edward Taylor
  
 Poerty of Edward Taylor
  conceit

 Jonathan Edwards
 Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God
  imagery

 Henry Wadsworth
 Longfellow
  Courtship of Miles Standish
   epic
        
 Nathaniel Hawthorne
   
 Young Goodman Brown
  allegory
 
  
 Washington Irving
 The Devil and Tom Walker
  folktale
 
 Shirley Jackson
  
 The Lottery
  gothic horror
 
 William Shakespeare
  
The Tempest, Romeo & Juliet
  soliloquy, aside,
 blank verse,
 iambic pentameter
 
SECOND SEMESTER
    Revolutionary- 
    Constitutional
  
 Thomas Jefferson
  
 The Declaration of Indepedence
  parallelism
 
 George Orwell
  
 Animal Farm
  fable, allegory,
 satire
     Civil War
 Stephen Crane
  
 Three Miraculous Soldiers
  realism
 
 Ambrose Bierce
  
 One Kind of Officer
  ambiguity
 
 Gary Paulsen
  
 Soldier's Heart
  historical fiction
 
 Abraham Lincoln
  
 The Gettysburg Address
  diction

 Walt Whitman
  
 O Captain! My Captain,
 When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
  free verse
 
 Harper Lee
  
 To Kill a Mockingbird
  characterization
     Expansion

  
 Willa Cather


  
 O Pioneers!

  characterization

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