American Literature Flashcards
a type of approximate rhyme in which initial consonant sounds are the same
alliteration
author of “America for Me”
Henry Van Dyke
the Christian statesman and orator from New England
Daniel Webster
Author of “A Creed for Americans” who is best-known for writing JOHN BROWN’S BODY
Stephen Vincent Benét
FREEDOM OF SPEECH, which illustrates a blue-collar worker participating in a town meeting was painted by whom?
Norman Rockwell
Who said “America was schoolmasters,/Tall one by lonely one”?
Coffin
wrote “The Nation and the Gospel”
Lowell
In the poem “American Names,” who wrote “Bury my heart at Wounded Knee”?
Stephen Vincent Benét
the American missionary martyred in China
Elizabeth Scott Stam
the main character in “The Cop and the Anthem”
Soapy
wrote “The Pit and the Pendulum”
Edgar Allen Poe
pen name of William Sidney Porter
O. Henry
wrote “The Town Poor”
Sara Orne Jewett
the ridicule of human folly
satire
the perspective from which a story is told
point of view
Where did the main character in “The Cop and the Anthem” want to spend his winter?
Blackwell’s Island
“The Pit and the Pendulum” takes place during the ___
Inquisition
In “The Town Poor”, whom did Mrs. Trimble and Miss Rebecca Wright visit?
the Bray sisters
how many men were afloat in the dingy in “The Open Boat”
4
In the story “The Open Boat,” which man was injured?
the captain
In the story “The Open Boat,” what was ironic about the men who spotted the crew from the shore?
they did not realize they were in trouble, so they didn’t save them
author of “The Open Boat”
Stephen Crane
In the story “The Open Boat,” which two crew members took turns rowing the boat?
the oiler and the correspondent
In the story “The Open Boat,” what was the oiler’s name?
Billie
In the story “The Open Boat,” what did the captain and the correspondent see near the boat while the others were sleeping?
a shark
In the story “The Open Boat,” which man died at the end of the story?
the oiler
the first book printed in America
THE BAY PSALM BOOK
the artist who painted PAUL REVERE
John Singleton Copley
the poem that gives a striking picture of the Judgment Day
THE DAY OF DOOM
America’s first textbook
the NEW ENGLAND PRIMER
author who wrote about the burning of her house
Anne Bradstreet
kept a journal of Puritan Life
John Winthrop
botanist who wrote “An Escape from Alligators”
William Bartram
tried to court Madam Winthrop
Samuel Sewall
made a difficult journey to New York
Sarah Kemble Knight
wrote the nation’s first history book
William Bradford
regular occurrence of rhythm
meter
a strongly exaggerated simile or metaphor
conceit
pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in a line a poetry
foot
unrhymed iambic pentameter
blank verse
reference to mythology, history, or a literary work
allusion
on unaccented and one accented
iamb
two accented
spondee
one accented and two unaccented
dactyl
two unaccented and one accented
anapest
one accented and one unaccented
trochee
one accented
monosyllabic foot
(SL) the name of Hester’s infant
Pearl
(SL) grew next to the entrance of the jail
rosebush
(SL) Hester’s husband
Roger Chillingworth
character in conflict with another character
antagonist
(SL) Whom did Hester appeal to when she thought her child would be taken away from her?
Arthur Dimmesdale
(SL) the ladies of the town thought Hester’s punishment to be too ___
lenient
(SL) How did Hester earn her living
sewing
a type of extended prose fiction
novel
(SL) What was the first thing Hester’s child noticed about her mother?
the scarlet letter A
the use of words that appeal to our senses
imagery
(SL) what gesture was Dimmesdale often seen doing in town?
putting his hand over his heart
(SL) What did the townspeople say the “A” in the sky stood for after the Governor Winthrop’s death?
angel
(SL) Dimmesdale’s ___ was found on the scaffold after his midnight vigil.
glove
a narrative or description in which the characters, places and other items are symbols
allegory
(SL) Who wanted to say, “I,…whom you so reverence and trust, am utterly a pollution and a lie”?
Arthur Dimmesdale
(SL) makes a green “A” out of seaweed
Pearl
(SL) the leech’s patient
Dimmesdale
(SL) tells people about the Black Man
Mistress Hibbins
(SL) waits for the minister in the forest
Hester
(SL) seeks revenge on the minister
Chillingworth
(SL) What did Hester reveal to Dimmesdale in the forest>
Chillingworth was Hester’s husband
(SL) What did the mariner reveal to Hester in market-place?
Chillingworth had booked passage on his ship
(SL) Who asked Hester about Dimmesdale in the market-place?
Mistress Hibbins
(SL) Who told Hester and Pearl to join him on the scaffold?
Dimmesdale
(SL) How many years had passed since Hester first stood on the scaffold?
7
(SL) Who received a kiss from Pearl in front of the townspeople?
Dimmesdale
(SL) What happened to Hester and Pearl after the events in the market-place?
they disappeared
(SL) What did Pearl do when Dimmesdale kissed her in the forest?
washed off the kiss
(SL) Who said “Thou hast escaped me!” in the market-place?
Chillingworth
(SL) What did the spectators in the market-place testify to seeing on the minister’s chest?
A
America’s only epic
Moby Dick
narrator of Moby Dick
Ishmael
In Moby Dick, who was Ahab’s first mate?
Starbuck
In Moby Dick, who became entangled in the ship’s lines and drowned on the second day?
Fedallah
Moby Dick’s ___ first caused the men to realize that the whale was nearby.
odor
In Moby Dick, of whom does Captain Ahab speak longingly to Starbuck at the story’s opening?
his family
In Moby Dick, who said “Shall we keep chasing this murderous fish till he swamps the last man?…Oh, oh,–Impiety and blasphemy to hunt him more!”?
Starbuck
In Moby Dick, who was tossed overboard by Moby Dick on the first day?
Captain Ahab
In Moby Dick, who alone survived the shipwreck of the PEQUOD?
Ishmael
wrote “The Ploughman”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
wrote “A Fable for Critics”
James Russell Lowell
wrote “Maud Muller”
John Greenleaf Whittier
wrote “The Village Blacksmith”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
America’s greatest pastoral poem
SNOW-BOUND
most popular American poet of the nineteenth century
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
the group of poets who wrote poems that people enjoyed sharing with family and friends
fireside poets
author known as “Mr. Boston”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
poem that satirizes popular nineteenth century writers
“A Fable for Critics”
wrote “The Experiences of the A.C.
Bayard Taylor
artist of BARN SWALLOWS
Eastman Johnson
wrote “Self-Reliance”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
artist of GLOUCESTER FARM
Winslow Homer
wrote WALDEN
Henry David Thoreau
wrote “O Captain! My Captain!”
Walt Whitman
founder of Transcendentalism
Emerson
compact statements expressing a truth
Aphorisms
America’s first modern poet
Walt Whitman
considered America’s most beloved hymn-writer of the nineteenth century
Fanny Crosby
wrote “My Old Kentucky Home”
Stephen Foster
educator who shared “The Secret of Progress”
Booker T. Washington
America’s unique contribution to folk music
Negro spirituals
legendary railroad hero
John Henry
a warning against humanism
“A World Split Apart”
argument against evolution
“Is the Bible True?”
lament of a dying cowboy
“Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie”
a farmer’s fight against a bug
“Ballad of the Boll Weevil”
wrote “Evolution”
R. G. Lee
wrote “Selfishness Not True Religion”
Charles G. Finney
wrote “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
Jonathan Edwards
wrote “Nuts for Skeptics to Crack”
Billy Sunday
wrote “Employments of Heaven”
T. DeWitt Talmage
implied comparisons in which one thing is described in terms of another
metaphors
the writer’s attitude toward his subject and the response which the writer intends for his readers
tone
have meaning in themselves, but also represent other things as well
symbols
when human qualities are given to inanimate objects or animals
personification
a phrase or sentence which is repeated at intervals
refrain
Q: “Mortality’s Ground Floor/Is Immortality–”
“If My Bark Sink”
Q: “I can not say, and I will not say/ That he is dead.–He is just away!”
“Away”
Q: “But Love and I had the wit to win;/ We drew a circle that took him in!”
“Outwitted”
Q: “How frugal is the Chariot/ That bears the Human soul.”
“There Is No Frigate like a Book”
author known as the Hoosier Poet
James Whitcomb Riley
author known for attempting to combine musical techniques in his poetry
Sidney Lanier
painted BREEZING UP
Winslow Homer
author who wrote almost two thousand poems, most of which were published posthumously
Emily Dickenson
the servant sent to follow Ben-Hur
Malluch
Ben-Hur’s sister
Tirzah
Ben-Hur’s adoptive father
Quintus Arrius
the “friend” who accused Ben-Hur of murder
Messala
the wealthy merchant’s daughter
Esther
the old man whose life Ben-Hur saved
Balthasar
the man whose horses Ben-Hur wanted to use for the chariot race
Ilderim
merchant and former servant of Ben-Hur’s father
Simonides
Eliza Jane Dimmidge was from what story?
“The Boom in the CALAVERAS CLARION”
Simonides was from what story?
BEN-HUR
Brer Rabbit was from what story?
Uncle Remus
Ralph Hartsook was from what story?
THE HOOSIER SCHOOL-MASTER
Candace Whitcomb was from what story?
“A Village Singer”
Jim Butler was from what story?
“Under the Lion’s Paw”
a view of life that emphasizes a detached scientific and photographic accuracy which includes everything and selects nothing
Naturalism
the first prose writer after the Civil War to gain popularity with his famous stories of the West
Bret Harte
portraying in sketches and short stories the life of a particular geographical location
local color writing
remembered for his Uncle Remus tales
Joel Chandler Harris
Jesse Stuart’s occupation
schoolteacher
What finally caused Guy Hawkins to behave in school?
losing the fight with the teacher
the talent Marian Anderson possessed even as a child
singing
What happened to the five missionaries after they finally met the Aucas?
they were killed
In his AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Benjamin Franklin described his attempt to achieve____
moral perfection
wrote YOUNG ABE LINCOLN
Carl Sandburg
wrote THE THREAD THAT RUNS SO TRUE
Jesse Stuart
wrote “Mission Accomplished”
Elisabeth Elliot
wrote “Philadelphia Childhood”
Marian Anderson
the first American woman to receive the Nobel Prize for literature
Pearl S. Buck
wrote about the pleasure-seeking generation of the Roaring Twenties
F. Scott Fitzgerald
known for writing science fiction and tales of fantasy
Ray Bradbury
One of America’s best-known humorists
James Thurber
journalists and novelists of the 1930s who shared the critical viewpoint of the Naturalists
Muckrakers
story that reveals the daydreams of a hen-pecked husband
the Secret Life of Walter Mitty
author that received a Pulitzer Prize for her novel, SO BIG
Edna Ferber
character that went on to night school to learn English
Hyman Kaplan
country where “The Enemy” took place
Japan
the object little Ede took from Billy Markey in “The Baby Party”
teddy bear
