12 Week Second Semester Flashcards
Leaves of grass
Walt Whitman
Ode on the confederate dead
Henry Timrod
Song of the chattahoochee
Sidney Lanier
The North Star
Douglass
I hear America singing
Walt Whitman
Occurrence at owl Cree bridge
Ambrose Bierce
After the pain of the civil war Americans had a new dynamic and a firmer sense of human potential
False
Many immigrants came and the population increased
True
There was a tremendous exploitation of natural resources and human resources
True
There was a widening distance between the rich and the poor
True
High idealism was now a weak force
True
The American Renaissance had greatly diminished by 1865
True
Foremost American exponent of realism was Walt Whitman
False
Bret Harte was american’s greatest author to utilize realism
False
Frederick Douglass wrote the souls of black folks in 1855
False
Mary freeman provides the most fully developed local color writing in New England
False
About 15% of the students monopolize the teachers’ time with regards to discipline
Statistics
People don’t mind using medicines with their pets, but they purchase medicines tested on other animals
Consistency
Early start time is hard on many students and when I woke up at 6 I was always exhausted
Anecdote
Requiring people to vote is not like requiring them to observe speed laws, voting doesn’t cause damages and deaths
Contrast
The civil war was to have put an end to slavery and racism
Historical allusion
There must be tightened security at the Olympic Games so people must make personal sacrifices
Current events and media
If the government will demand increases in car mileage then manufacturers will have to rethink environmental issues
Cause and effect
According to the president of AARP retired poeple still want to work
Authoritative opinion
If children are not helped with their education how can we expect them as adults to later support other causes
Reciprocity
Some of us believe in hard work but others want to take advantage of others to get ahead
Inclusive exclusive language
That is a post hoc ergo propter hoc logical fallacy since correlation does not imply causation
Formal language
Modern educators see little value in comic books just like those in the 1800s saw evil in writing novels
Comparison and analogy
Don’t all parents want what is best for their children
Rhetorical question
Don’t be fancy give me good ol down home cookin any day
Informal language
Many people who don’t want women in management positions also don’t want them to work in the first place
Attack
Imagine a clean subway where there is a clean seat and un polluted air
Sensory language
Prejudice will end when you see kids in a high school cafeteria not eating in cliques
Humor
Yes we can stop money for the space race but then our generation might e called the greedy folks
Emotional appeal
Lincoln’s opinion of God in the war
God punishing them for slavery but He would get them through
When I heard the learned astronomer
Gain more knowledge from his own experience
2 answers to who smoke King is
Industrialization, pride, hatred
Why is huck Finn great
First person perspective
Diction and voice of young boy
Stance against racism
Why was huck banned
Racism
Huck not a good kid
Chapters 20-21
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
Who says the dudes are fake
Doctor Robinson
What does Mary Jane do with her money
Let’s the crooks invest it
Who is the hare lip
Joanna
Structure of huck Finn
Intro, rise, climax, fall, conclusion
Five people in huck’s life
Pap, Jim, Duke and King, Tom, Aunt Sally
Climax
Huck saw Jim as a person
Closing chapter
Not society
Huck strong
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
Steffens and Riis both wrote to exalt good social role models in society
False
Americans believed science could be applied to every area of life
True
Edward Bellamy wrote a utopian novel showing how technology would produce a perfect society
True
Zola promoted a determinism which was influenced which was influenced by the forces of freewill and chance
False
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
Theodore dreiser’s novels linked social development to biological evolution
True
Naturalism replaced realism in the minds of most American writers and they saw people as robots where lives were determined by outside forces
False
What did the men not know
The color of the sky
What did the men know
Colors of the sea
Why were the men in the small boat
Their ship went down
What was the oiler’s name
Billie
What animal did crane compare the boat’s motion to
Bucking bronco
How did the men know it was broad daylight
The color of the sea went from slate to emerald green
What did the cook and correspondent argue about
Who will save them, what’s near mosquito inlet light
What did the captain ask
Do you think we’ve got much of a show now boys
What did the crew reply before the captain assured them
Silence
How did the bird stick in the minds of the men
Somehow gruesome and ominous
What did the captain see
Lighthouse
By what was each man warmed
Subtle brotherhood
For how long had the men gone without food
2 days and 2 nights
What did the four men do before they took a drink of water
Puffed cigars, judged well and I’ll of all men
What sentence is repeated at least three times
Funny they don’t see us
What did the oiler ask the captain
Shall I take her to sea again
What can become a seat for many aches and pains
The human back
The vehicle was seen on the shore that belonged to a hotel
Omnibus
What was the man on the shore doing that didn’t mean anything
Waving a coat
What did the cook ask Billie at the end of Part IV
What kind of people do you like best
What did Billie meekly ask the correspondent
Will you spell me for a little while
For most of the section who was the only person awake
Correspondent
For most of the section who was awake
Correspondent
What does not regard a man as important
Nature
What had been playing around
Shark
What steadied the chills of the correspondent
Whiskey and water
What was the word used twice to describe nature
Indifferent
What state were they close to
Florida
What did the captain tell the correspondent
Come to the boat
