12 Week Second Semester Flashcards
1
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Leaves of grass
A
Walt Whitman
2
Q
Ode on the confederate dead
A
Henry Timrod
3
Q
Song of the chattahoochee
A
Sidney Lanier
4
Q
The North Star
A
Douglass
5
Q
I hear America singing
A
Walt Whitman
6
Q
Occurrence at owl Cree bridge
A
Ambrose Bierce
7
Q
After the pain of the civil war Americans had a new dynamic and a firmer sense of human potential
A
False
8
Q
Many immigrants came and the population increased
A
True
9
Q
There was a tremendous exploitation of natural resources and human resources
A
True
10
Q
There was a widening distance between the rich and the poor
A
True
11
Q
High idealism was now a weak force
A
True
12
Q
The American Renaissance had greatly diminished by 1865
A
True
13
Q
Foremost American exponent of realism was Walt Whitman
A
False
14
Q
Bret Harte was american’s greatest author to utilize realism
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False
15
Q
Frederick Douglass wrote the souls of black folks in 1855
A
False
16
Q
Mary freeman provides the most fully developed local color writing in New England
A
False
17
Q
About 15% of the students monopolize the teachers’ time with regards to discipline
A
Statistics
18
Q
People don’t mind using medicines with their pets, but they purchase medicines tested on other animals
A
Consistency
19
Q
Early start time is hard on many students and when I woke up at 6 I was always exhausted
A
Anecdote
20
Q
Requiring people to vote is not like requiring them to observe speed laws, voting doesn’t cause damages and deaths
A
Contrast
21
Q
The civil war was to have put an end to slavery and racism
A
Historical allusion
22
Q
There must be tightened security at the Olympic Games so people must make personal sacrifices
A
Current events and media
23
Q
If the government will demand increases in car mileage then manufacturers will have to rethink environmental issues
A
Cause and effect
24
Q
According to the president of AARP retired poeple still want to work
A
Authoritative opinion
25
If children are not helped with their education how can we expect them as adults to later support other causes
Reciprocity
26
Some of us believe in hard work but others want to take advantage of others to get ahead
Inclusive exclusive language
27
That is a post hoc ergo propter hoc logical fallacy since correlation does not imply causation
Formal language
28
Modern educators see little value in comic books just like those in the 1800s saw evil in writing novels
Comparison and analogy
29
Don't all parents want what is best for their children
Rhetorical question
30
Don't be fancy give me good ol down home cookin any day
Informal language
31
Many people who don't want women in management positions also don't want them to work in the first place
Attack
32
Imagine a clean subway where there is a clean seat and un polluted air
Sensory language
33
Prejudice will end when you see kids in a high school cafeteria not eating in cliques
Humor
34
Yes we can stop money for the space race but then our generation might e called the greedy folks
Emotional appeal
35
Lincoln's opinion of God in the war
God punishing them for slavery but He would get them through
36
When I heard the learned astronomer
Gain more knowledge from his own experience
37
2 answers to who smoke King is
Industrialization, pride, hatred
38
Why is huck Finn great
First person perspective
Diction and voice of young boy
Stance against racism
39
Why was huck banned
Racism
| Huck not a good kid
40
Chapters 20-21
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Duke and King suspect Jim of runaway
Huck pretends they're orphans
Duke and King take beds, perform, false personas, work in newspaper for $10, dauphin, Romeo and Juliet, made up,
Go to AR
Handbills for play
Lynching of sher burn rude and drunk
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41
Who says the dudes are fake
Doctor Robinson
42
What does Mary Jane do with her money
Let's the crooks invest it
43
Who is the hare lip
Joanna
44
Structure of huck Finn
Intro, rise, climax, fall, conclusion
45
Five people in huck's life
Pap, Jim, Duke and King, Tom, Aunt Sally
46
Climax
Huck saw Jim as a person
47
Closing chapter
Not society
| Huck strong
48
Hypocrisy in huck Finn
Civilization manners, stock in dead people, darker parts of society with ridiculous actions - feuding
Drunken man shot for insult
Judge gives custody to evil pap
Racist slaveholders good people
49
Steffens and Riis both wrote to exalt good social role models in society
False
50
Americans believed science could be applied to every area of life
True
51
Edward Bellamy wrote a utopian novel showing how technology would produce a perfect society
True
52
Zola promoted a determinism which was influenced which was influenced by the forces of freewill and chance
False
53
America's mobile society and rapidly changing social situations made it hard for American writers to accept the laws of heredity and environment as determiners of a person's character
True
54
Theodore dreiser's novels linked social development to biological evolution
True
55
Naturalism replaced realism in the minds of most American writers and they saw people as robots where lives were determined by outside forces
False
56
What did the men not know
The color of the sky
57
What did the men know
Colors of the sea
58
Why were the men in the small boat
Their ship went down
59
What was the oiler's name
Billie
60
What animal did crane compare the boat's motion to
Bucking bronco
61
How did the men know it was broad daylight
The color of the sea went from slate to emerald green
62
What did the cook and correspondent argue about
Who will save them, what's near mosquito inlet light
63
What did the captain ask
Do you think we've got much of a show now boys
64
What did the crew reply before the captain assured them
Silence
65
How did the bird stick in the minds of the men
Somehow gruesome and ominous
66
What did the captain see
Lighthouse
67
By what was each man warmed
Subtle brotherhood
68
For how long had the men gone without food
2 days and 2 nights
69
What did the four men do before they took a drink of water
Puffed cigars, judged well and I'll of all men
70
What sentence is repeated at least three times
Funny they don't see us
71
What did the oiler ask the captain
Shall I take her to sea again
72
What can become a seat for many aches and pains
The human back
73
The vehicle was seen on the shore that belonged to a hotel
Omnibus
74
What was the man on the shore doing that didn't mean anything
Waving a coat
75
What did the cook ask Billie at the end of Part IV
What kind of people do you like best
76
What did Billie meekly ask the correspondent
Will you spell me for a little while
77
For most of the section who was the only person awake
Correspondent
78
For most of the section who was awake
Correspondent
79
What does not regard a man as important
Nature
80
What had been playing around
Shark
81
What steadied the chills of the correspondent
Whiskey and water
82
What was the word used twice to describe nature
Indifferent
83
What state were they close to
Florida
84
What did the captain tell the correspondent
Come to the boat
85
What did the correspondent tell his rescuer
Thanks old man, go
86
Who died
Oiler
87
About crane
Red badge of courage
Open boat
war correspondent
Views nature as indifferent and almost negative
88
Chechaquo means
Newcomer
89
When he spat, his spittle
Made an explosive crackle
90
Why was the man traveling in this area
He was considering a business venture that involved timber
91
The temperature was
75 below zero
92
A constant danger was
Pools of water
93
Old timer's law
One should not travel alone if the temperature is 50 below zero
94
The man's mistake was that
He had built his fire under a spruce tree
95
The match that was lighted was extinguished when it
Fell to the snow
96
After being thrown into a panic the man began
Running along the creek bed
97
When he got back to the states, he could tell
What real cold was
98
When did the story begin
9 am
99
Where does the story take place
Alaska
100
What was the man's destination
Left fork of Henderson creek
101
The dog had learned and wanted ____
Fire
102
----- prompted to bite the ice between his toes
Instinct
103
At 12:30 the man
arrived at the creek’s forks B. built a fire C. ate his lunch
104
The Italian sonnet has three stanzas with four lines and ends with two lines called a couplet
False
105
When the man became wet
His trip was delayed 1 hour
106
Even if the second fire was successful
The man would probably lose some toes
107
When the man reached for a second piece of bark
He could not feel it
108
The man devoted his whole soul
To matches
109
____ matches lit at once
70
110
The man could smell that
His hands were burning
111
The man's _____ caused another attempt to fail
Shivering
112
The man could not kill the dog because
His hands did not function
113
How long did the man beat his hands at his side's
Five minutes
114
The flaw in the theory of running to the camp was that
The man lacked endurance
115
The vision of ___ kept him moving
His frozen body
116
The man would tell the old timer
He was right
117
At the end
The dog trotted toward the camp
118
The lower quarter was exclusively Mexican, with no mixture
False
119
From the time of galarza's arrival to WWI the Mexican colony dwindled annually since its residents would move to larger cities
False
120
The refugee's first concern was to find a place to eat
False
121
Galarza's said that he loved the smell of outdoor American markets
False
122
Every year in the barrio one man was chosen to be a mediator between the people and the officials at city hall
False
123
Volunteers helped the barrio
True
124
The ponchos and the chicos saw themselves as equals
False
125
What were collections for
Funerals
126
London
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To build a fire
Call of the wild
Read 19 hours a day
50 literary works
Killed himself
Evolutionist if outlook
Saw nature as against man
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127
About Robinson
Wrote three pulitzers for his poetry in the 20s
128
Robinson experimenting all
False
129
Edgar Lee masters wrote a book of poems about inhabitants of Illinois
True
130
Masters optimistic or pessimistic
Pessimistic
131
What did masters write
Spoon river anthology
132
Masters
Gray, mat lock, fiddler
133
Robinson
Mr. Flood
Richard Corey
Miniver Chevy
134
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Promoted African American cause
Strove to be master poet who focused on larger theme than race
Douglass - leadership to be admired
Life's tragedies - remember failures more than victories
135
How does the novel differ from short story
More characters
More complex situations
Talks more about setting and society
136
Novels Which have mysterious plots, melodramatic characters and elements of suspense and horror are called
Gothic novels
137
Who created one of the central character types in American literature
Cooper
138
Scarlet letter admired for
Artistic depth
Psychological depth
Moral depth
139
Why is Moby dick prized
Deals with profound questions
140
All lit comes from huck
Hemingway
141
No novels about social realism until 1940
False
142
Decade most rich in lit
1920s
143
Richard wright's native son burned itself into the American conscious
True
144
James Baldwin and Ralph Ellison African American novelists
True
145
Toni Morrison and Alice Walker northern regional novelists
False
146
Eudora Welty, flannery o Connor, Truman capote southern regional writers
True
147
N. Scott momaday Native American
True
148
Rodolfo Anaya
Mexican American
149
Maxine Kingston
Chinese
150
Saul bellow
Not African American
151
Main character of modern chivalry
John farrago
152
What author's ideas about immigrants prevailed until 1900
Creveceour
153
Year immigrants began to write
Late 1800s
154
How many immigrants in 1907
1,285,00
155
Group immigrated from west
Asians
156
How many got entry permits
16 million
157
Immigrants on west coast went
Angel island
158
How many immigrants from south 1820-1930
1.3 million
159
How long immigrant workwee
72 hours
160
Where did immigrants learn the requirements of citizenship
At night schools
161
2 cities Eastern Europeans settled in
Boston and New York
162
Where did Scandinavians go
Midwest
163
What did Mexican immigrants do
Harvest crops
164
What did Asian immigrants do
Mines railroads
165
Tenements in
NYC
166
In what state did the Japanese immigrant children arrive
California
167
Mary Anton wrote
Promised land
168
Industry in the jungle
Meat packing
169
Ethnic group rolvagg
Norwegian
170
Process from rolvagg
Assimilation
171
Ethnic group wrote gold mountain poems
Chinese
172
In gold mountain poems
Expectations and disillusionment expressed
173
Ernesto galarza wrote
Barrio boy
174
What influenced galarza
War
175
Where did galarza live
Sacramento
176
What did galarza earn doctorates
History
| Politica science
177
Who instructed newcomers about being greenhorns
Their father
178
What object did the five newcomers experiment on their first day
Rocking chair
179
Father wanted his children to have
Education
180
Where did the children go to be glorified in each other's eyes
Department store
181
Language of children's names
Hebrew
182
Mary's sister went to
Workplace
183
When Mary went to school, her sister became
A woman
184
Who made Mary's outfit
Her sister
185
Where did Mary go to school
Boston
186
Mary compared herself to a
Blind person
187
Their minds were not full of troublesome thoughts about
Germs
188
It was a land of high
Prices
189
Jury came out with ____ rubles sewed up in his coat
80
190
It was an ____ odor, raw and crude
Elemental
191
All their thoughts were of
Packing town
192
Beyond this dump stood a great____ with smoking chimneys
Brickyard
193
A ghastly odor of all the dead things of the
Universe
194
J. Szedvilas owned a _____ business
Delicatessen
195
Of ____ for thousands upon thousands of men
Employment
196
You could pick him out by his impatience and
Restlessness
197
But my back is
Broad
198
There were ___ in their party
12
199
It had been made by dumping the city's
Garbage
200
____ I shall go there and get a job
Tomorrow
201
Jonas suggested they all go to
America
202
The colors of things became
Dinghies
203
Before half the day they were ____ friends
Lifelong
204
In the twilight it was a vision of
Power
205
There was an agent who proved to be a
Scoundrel
206
They were pitiable in their
Helplessness
207
The most uncanny thing about this neighborhood was the number of the ____
Children
208
For two days they had almost ____ themselves
Starved
209
Since the prize was within reach, jurgis's heart _____
Leaped
210
His ancestors had lived in the part known as
Breloviczs
211
Jurgis met on a at a ____ fair
Horse
