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amlit final vocab & key terms
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Literature
10th Grade
01/27/2013

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Anaphora
Definition
repitition of word or phrase at the beginning of 2 sentences
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Juxtaposition
Definition
placing verbal elements side by side to let the reader decide a meaning
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Tone
Definition
how the author feels about the writing
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Mood
Definition
how the reader feels about the writing
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Dichotomy
Definition
2 opposing definitions of the same situation
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stratification
Definition
assigning people into social classes
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hegemonic
Definition
having dominance in a social or political context
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egalitarianism
Definition
belief in equality of all people
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concomitant
Definition
naturally accompanying/associated
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gentrify
Definition
buying/renovation of homes by higher class than that of the neighborhood
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paradigm
Definition
typical example
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Paradoxically
Definition
seemingly contradictory but true
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Disseminated
Definition
Spread or disperce
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homogeneity
Definition
of the same kind or nature, essentially alike
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burgeoning
Definition
Begin to grow/increase rapidly
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Nebulous
Definition
An unclear/vague idea
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Agrarianism
Definition
Rural life
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Privation
Definition
when commodities essential to life are low or lacking
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mythologization
Definition
changing a message or story into a myth
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transient
Definition
not long lasting
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Magical realism
Definition
incorporating magic into a reality based narrative
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Critical race theory
Definition
race is an inextricable element in American history
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aphorism -
Definition
a terse statement of truth or philosophy
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Black Hills/ Mount Rushmore
Definition
Owned by Sioux, when gold was found, Indians were removed
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Sterilization
Definition
42% of adult native american women are coerced into sterilization
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Horse slaughter
Definition
800 horses killed, Spokane River, punishment for Indians killing settlers
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fancy dance
Definition
invented in 1920s, no religious affiliation, religious dances were banned
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Diabetes
Definition
Common among native americans
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Dawes Act
Definition
1887: takes 2/3 of indian land, to "integrate" almost no compensation for seized land
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Tribal hospital
Definition
federal program by IHS to take care of native americans
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uranium mining
Definition
Opened jobs for native americans but had great risks and hurt health. It later contaminated indian water and land
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commodity food
Definition
cheap unnutritious food sent to native americans
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wounded knee
Definition
after refusing to give up weapons for a religious ceremony, indians are taken to wounded knee creek and forced to give up all weapons. Ended in military killing 300 of the 350 native americans, women and children killed. 25 soldiers died.
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basketball
Definition
alternative to drugs
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coeur d'alene/spokane plainswar
Definition
Native americans attempted to attack US troops and were killed off.
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Puritan's problems with church of england
Definition
confessions
icons
henry VIII using the church e.g. his divorce
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Branches of Christianity
Definition
catholic, protestant, other
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Puritan lit aspects
Definition
plain, lists, elevated language, journalistic, biblical references, religious figurative language
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Views on nature
Definition
Puritans - evil, should be conquered
Jamestown- profitable
Native americans - sacred
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Narrative nonfiction
Definition
easier to read, vivid imagery, facts more digestable, less reliable
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Acuate
Definition
To sharpen; to make pungent; to quicken
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Hud Homes
Definition
HUD homes are homes in which the money used to purchase the home is insured by the FHA. HUD (U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ) is a government agency that promotes “affordable homeownership and equal opportunity for all citizens to own their share of the American Dream”
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General Custer:
Definition
General George Armstrong Custer was born on December 5, 1839 and served as a general in the Union forces. He graduated the last in his class at Westpoint Academy, but still became an officer in the Civil war. Custer gained recognition during the Civil war for fighting in the First Battle of Bull Run. Custer is most well known, however, for his involvement in the Indian wars, to which he was dispatched to after the Civil War. Custer was sent to the west to defeat Indians. In 1868, Custer saw his first battle against Indians when he and his men attacked a Cheyenne encampment where he killed 103 Indians and shot all 875 of the Indian’s ponies. The US troops also took 53 women and children prisoner. This battle was later known to be the Battle of Washita River, and was later thought to be the first substantial victory in the Southern Plains War. This defeat of the Cheyenne people caused most of them to be forced into a reservation. Custer is most known for the Battle and Little Bighorn in 1874 where he and his men fought against a group of Lakota and Cheyenne Indians. Custer and all of his men were annihilated by the natives.
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Smallpox Blankets
Definition
On june 29, 1763 Colonel Boquet was about to kill a group of native americans at fort pit. But, before he could, he received a letter from General Armherst suggesting that he spread smallpox among the native americans instead because they had to use every available resource they could to kill the native americans.
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Ghost Dance
Definition
It was believed that the ghost dance could bring back dead relatives and loved ones and provide protection during battle.
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broken treaties:
Definition
Over the course of the time, 500 treaties were made with Native Americans and every one of them were either broken, nullified, or changed on the whim of the government. Treaties like the Treaty of Six Nations stated that the United States would not interfere with the Indians and they would keep their reservations
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crazy horse
Definition
Crazy Horse was a legendary warrior, he stole one hundred horses from the Crow Indians before he was thirteen and led his first war party before he was 20, he fought to stop American encroachment on Lakota lands following the Fort Laramie treaty of 1868, helping to attack a surveying party sent into the Black Hills by General George Armstrong Custer in 1873. Crazy Horse became a leader of the Resistance, he gathered a force of twelve hundred Oglala and Cheyenne at his village and turned back General George Crook on June 17,1876. After the victory Crazy Horse joined forces with Sitting Bull and on June 25 led his band in the counter attack that destroyed Custer’s seventh calvary
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Sherman Alexie
Definition
a famous Native American writer, (he’s the author of the book we’re reading in class). He was born on October 7, 1966 on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, Washington. Alexie’s parents are from two different Indian tribes. His mother is a Spokane Indian and his father is a Coeur d’Alene Indian.
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Puritan lit we read:
Definition
To My Dear Loving Husband-Anne Bradstreet
Wickedness Breaks Forth-William Bradford
Upon the Burning of Our House-Anne Bradstreet
What Is an American-J.Hector St. John De Crevecoeur
Information for Those Who Wish to Remove to America- Benjamin Franklin
Witch Trial at Mount Holly-Benjamin Franklin
Huswifery-Edward Taylor
Childbirth-Jane Coleman Turell
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God-Jonathan Edwards
Zeitoun-Dave Eggers
The Sovereignty and Goodness of God: Being a Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson-Mary Rowlandson
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Transcendentalism
Definition
Anti- predestination, rationalism, accept fear and suffering, anti-fear-based religion, similar to romanticism, love of nature, indwelling god, anti-religious empiricism, low taxes, anti-expansion by war, preserving nature
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