| A | B |
|---|
| educator who compiled America's first dictionary | Noah Webster |
| essay written as a defense against humanistic philosophy | The Portland Declaration |
| describes the loss of a child in "A Funeral Poem on the Death of C. E., an Infant of Twelve Months" | Phillis Wheatley |
| the most widely read poet of Puritan New England | Michael Wigglesworth |
| first American writer to become famous throughout the world | Washington Irving |
| author whose works deal with themes of sin and guilt | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| poet who signed the Declaration of Independence | Francis Hopkinson |
| Poor Richard's Almanac | Benjamin Franklin |
| rhythm occurring at regular intervals | meter |
| "Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning" | Mark Twain |
| first book printed in America | The Bay Psalm Book |
| found the Great Carbuncle | Matthew and Hannah |
| drowned trying to get to shore | the oiler |
| tried to get arrested | Soapy |
| slept for twenty years | Rip Van Winkle |
| wanted to kill John Smith | Powhatan |
| recounted a frog story | Simon Wheeler |
| injured during a shipwreck | the captain |
| tells sister-in-law that Smith family is ruthless | Leonora Thorpe |
| expresses God's inifinte, unconfined love | "Meditation One' |
| rebel soldiers try to surpise the enemy | "The Battle of the Kegs" |
| expresses the inadequacies felt by the poet | "The Author to Her Book" |
| longs to be home in America | "America for Me" |
| Hoosick Falls in Winter | Grandma Moses |
| Homecoming | Norman Rockwell |
| The Fall of the Cowboy | Frederic Remington |
| Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose | John Singer Sargent |
| Paul Revere | John Singleton Copley |
| Rip Van Winkle | N. C. Wyeth |
| "Thou ill-informed offspring of my feeble brain." | "The Author to Her Book" |
| "I did ot bid her draw off her glove as sometime I had done. Her dress was not so clean as sometimes it had been. Jehovah jireh!" | "The Courtship of Madam Winthrop" |
| "A slight noise attracted by notice, and, looking to the floor, I saw several enormous rats traversing it." | "The Pit and the Pendulum" |
| "For at midnight broke forth a light,/which turned the night to day,/ and speedily a hideous cry/ did all the world dismay" | The Day of Doom |
| "Boast not, proud English, of thy birth and blood, Thy brother Indian is by birth as good" | A Key into the Language of America |
| "They struck their jaws together so close to my ears as almost to stun me, and I expected every moment to be dragged out of the boat and instantly devoured." | "An Escape from Alligators" |
| "Being thus arrived in a good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of Heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean" | Of Plymouth Plantation |
| dialect | "The bumblebee iz a kind ov big fly" |
| end rhyme | "the light did spy....my heart did cry" |
| onomatopoeia | "Casckle, crackle, yowl, and yap" |
| alliteration | "To make the Future freed" |
| ballad | "Strange things I'll tell which late befell/ In Philadelphia city" |
