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Proverbs and Idioms flashcards
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a type of approximate rhyme in which initial consonant sounds are the same

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alliteration

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author of “America for Me”

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Henry Van Dyke

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the Christian statesman and orator from New England

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Daniel Webster

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Author of “A Creed for Americans” who is best-known for writing JOHN BROWN’S BODY

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Stephen Vincent Benét

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FREEDOM OF SPEECH, which illustrates a blue-collar worker participating in a town meeting was painted by whom?

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Norman Rockwell

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Who said “America was schoolmasters,/Tall one by lonely one”?

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Coffin

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wrote “The Nation and the Gospel”

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Lowell

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In the poem “American Names,” who wrote “Bury my heart at Wounded Knee”?

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Stephen Vincent Benét

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the American missionary martyred in China

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Elizabeth Scott Stam

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the main character in “The Cop and the Anthem”

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Soapy

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wrote “The Pit and the Pendulum”

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Edgar Allen Poe

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pen name of William Sidney Porter

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O. Henry

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wrote “The Town Poor”

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Sara Orne Jewett

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the ridicule of human folly

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satire

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the perspective from which a story is told

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point of view

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Where did the main character in “The Cop and the Anthem” want to spend his winter?

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Blackwell’s Island

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“The Pit and the Pendulum” takes place during the ___

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Inquisition

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In “The Town Poor”, whom did Mrs. Trimble and Miss Rebecca Wright visit?

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the Bray sisters

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how many men were afloat in the dingy in “The Open Boat”

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4

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In the story “The Open Boat,” which man was injured?

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the captain

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In the story “The Open Boat,” what was ironic about the men who spotted the crew from the shore?

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they did not realize they were in trouble, so they didn’t save them

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author of “The Open Boat”

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Stephen Crane

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In the story “The Open Boat,” which two crew members took turns rowing the boat?

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the oiler and the correspondent

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In the story “The Open Boat,” what was the oiler’s name?

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Billie

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In the story “The Open Boat,” what did the captain and the correspondent see near the boat while the others were sleeping?

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a shark

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In the story “The Open Boat,” which man died at the end of the story?

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the oiler

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the first book printed in America

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THE BAY PSALM BOOK

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the artist who painted PAUL REVERE

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John Singleton Copley

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the poem that gives a striking picture of the Judgment Day

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THE DAY OF DOOM

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America’s first textbook

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the NEW ENGLAND PRIMER

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author who wrote about the burning of her house

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Anne Bradstreet

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kept a journal of Puritan Life

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John Winthrop

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botanist who wrote “An Escape from Alligators”

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William Bartram

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tried to court Madam Winthrop

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Samuel Sewall

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made a difficult journey to New York

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Sarah Kemble Knight

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wrote the nation’s first history book

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William Bradford

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regular occurrence of rhythm

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meter

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a strongly exaggerated simile or metaphor

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conceit

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pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in a line a poetry

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foot

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unrhymed iambic pentameter

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blank verse

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reference to mythology, history, or a literary work

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allusion

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on unaccented and one accented

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iamb

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two accented

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spondee

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one accented and two unaccented

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dactyl

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two unaccented and one accented

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anapest

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one accented and one unaccented

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trochee

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one accented

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monosyllabic foot

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(SL) the name of Hester’s infant

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Pearl

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(SL) grew next to the entrance of the jail

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rosebush

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50
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(SL) Hester’s husband

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Roger Chillingworth

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51
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character in conflict with another character

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antagonist

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(SL) Whom did Hester appeal to when she thought her child would be taken away from her?

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Arthur Dimmesdale

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(SL) the ladies of the town thought Hester’s punishment to be too ___

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lenient

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54
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(SL) How did Hester earn her living

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sewing

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a type of extended prose fiction

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novel

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(SL) What was the first thing Hester’s child noticed about her mother?

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the scarlet letter A

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57
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the use of words that appeal to our senses

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imagery

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(SL) what gesture was Dimmesdale often seen doing in town?

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putting his hand over his heart

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(SL) What did the townspeople say the “A” in the sky stood for after the Governor Winthrop’s death?

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angel

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(SL) Dimmesdale’s ___ was found on the scaffold after his midnight vigil.

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glove

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a narrative or description in which the characters, places and other items are symbols

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allegory

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(SL) Who wanted to say, “I,…whom you so reverence and trust, am utterly a pollution and a lie”?

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Arthur Dimmesdale

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(SL) makes a green “A” out of seaweed

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Pearl

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64
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(SL) the leech’s patient

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Dimmesdale

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65
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(SL) tells people about the Black Man

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Mistress Hibbins

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(SL) waits for the minister in the forest

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Hester

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67
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(SL) seeks revenge on the minister

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Chillingworth

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(SL) What did Hester reveal to Dimmesdale in the forest>

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Chillingworth was Hester’s husband

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(SL) What did the mariner reveal to Hester in market-place?

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Chillingworth had booked passage on his ship

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(SL) Who asked Hester about Dimmesdale in the market-place?

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Mistress Hibbins

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(SL) Who told Hester and Pearl to join him on the scaffold?

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Dimmesdale

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(SL) How many years had passed since Hester first stood on the scaffold?

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7

73
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(SL) Who received a kiss from Pearl in front of the townspeople?

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Dimmesdale

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(SL) What happened to Hester and Pearl after the events in the market-place?

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they disappeared

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(SL) What did Pearl do when Dimmesdale kissed her in the forest?

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washed off the kiss

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(SL) Who said “Thou hast escaped me!” in the market-place?

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Chillingworth

77
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(SL) What did the spectators in the market-place testify to seeing on the minister’s chest?

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A

78
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America’s only epic

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Moby Dick

79
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narrator of Moby Dick

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Ishmael

80
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In Moby Dick, who was Ahab’s first mate?

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Starbuck

81
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In Moby Dick, who became entangled in the ship’s lines and drowned on the second day?

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Fedallah

82
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Moby Dick’s ___ first caused the men to realize that the whale was nearby.

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odor

83
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In Moby Dick, of whom does Captain Ahab speak longingly to Starbuck at the story’s opening?

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his family

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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!”?

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Starbuck

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In Moby Dick, who was tossed overboard by Moby Dick on the first day?

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Captain Ahab

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In Moby Dick, who alone survived the shipwreck of the PEQUOD?

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Ishmael

87
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wrote “The Ploughman”

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Oliver Wendell Holmes

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wrote “A Fable for Critics”

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James Russell Lowell

89
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wrote “Maud Muller”

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John Greenleaf Whittier

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wrote “The Village Blacksmith”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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America’s greatest pastoral poem

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SNOW-BOUND

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most popular American poet of the nineteenth century

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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the group of poets who wrote poems that people enjoyed sharing with family and friends

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fireside poets

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author known as “Mr. Boston”

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Oliver Wendell Holmes

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poem that satirizes popular nineteenth century writers

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“A Fable for Critics”

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wrote “The Experiences of the A.C.

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Bayard Taylor

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artist of BARN SWALLOWS

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Eastman Johnson

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wrote “Self-Reliance”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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artist of GLOUCESTER FARM

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Winslow Homer

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wrote WALDEN

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Henry David Thoreau

101
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wrote “O Captain! My Captain!”

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Walt Whitman

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founder of Transcendentalism

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Emerson

103
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compact statements expressing a truth

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Aphorisms

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America’s first modern poet

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Walt Whitman

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considered America’s most beloved hymn-writer of the nineteenth century

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Fanny Crosby

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wrote “My Old Kentucky Home”

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Stephen Foster

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educator who shared “The Secret of Progress”

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Booker T. Washington

108
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America’s unique contribution to folk music

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Negro spirituals

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legendary railroad hero

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John Henry

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a warning against humanism

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“A World Split Apart”

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argument against evolution

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“Is the Bible True?”

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lament of a dying cowboy

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“Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie”

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a farmer’s fight against a bug

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“Ballad of the Boll Weevil”

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wrote “Evolution”

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R. G. Lee

115
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wrote “Selfishness Not True Religion”

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Charles G. Finney

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wrote “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”

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Jonathan Edwards

117
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wrote “Nuts for Skeptics to Crack”

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Billy Sunday

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wrote “Employments of Heaven”

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T. DeWitt Talmage

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implied comparisons in which one thing is described in terms of another

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metaphors

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the writer’s attitude toward his subject and the response which the writer intends for his readers

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tone

121
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have meaning in themselves, but also represent other things as well

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symbols

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when human qualities are given to inanimate objects or animals

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personification

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a phrase or sentence which is repeated at intervals

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refrain

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Q: “Mortality’s Ground Floor/Is Immortality–”

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“If My Bark Sink”

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Q: “I can not say, and I will not say/ That he is dead.–He is just away!”

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“Away”

126
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Q: “But Love and I had the wit to win;/ We drew a circle that took him in!”

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“Outwitted”

127
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Q: “How frugal is the Chariot/ That bears the Human soul.”

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“There Is No Frigate like a Book”

128
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author known as the Hoosier Poet

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James Whitcomb Riley

129
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author known for attempting to combine musical techniques in his poetry

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Sidney Lanier

130
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painted BREEZING UP

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Winslow Homer

131
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author who wrote almost two thousand poems, most of which were published posthumously

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Emily Dickenson

132
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the servant sent to follow Ben-Hur

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Malluch

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Ben-Hur’s sister

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Tirzah

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Ben-Hur’s adoptive father

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Quintus Arrius

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the “friend” who accused Ben-Hur of murder

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Messala

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the wealthy merchant’s daughter

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Esther

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the old man whose life Ben-Hur saved

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Balthasar

138
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the man whose horses Ben-Hur wanted to use for the chariot race

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Ilderim

139
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merchant and former servant of Ben-Hur’s father

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Simonides

140
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Eliza Jane Dimmidge was from what story?

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“The Boom in the CALAVERAS CLARION”

141
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Simonides was from what story?

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BEN-HUR

142
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Brer Rabbit was from what story?

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Uncle Remus

143
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Ralph Hartsook was from what story?

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THE HOOSIER SCHOOL-MASTER

144
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Candace Whitcomb was from what story?

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“A Village Singer”

145
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Jim Butler was from what story?

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“Under the Lion’s Paw”

146
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a view of life that emphasizes a detached scientific and photographic accuracy which includes everything and selects nothing

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Naturalism

147
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the first prose writer after the Civil War to gain popularity with his famous stories of the West

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Bret Harte

148
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portraying in sketches and short stories the life of a particular geographical location

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local color writing

149
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remembered for his Uncle Remus tales

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Joel Chandler Harris

150
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Jesse Stuart’s occupation

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schoolteacher

151
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What finally caused Guy Hawkins to behave in school?

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losing the fight with the teacher

152
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the talent Marian Anderson possessed even as a child

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singing

153
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What happened to the five missionaries after they finally met the Aucas?

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they were killed

154
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In his AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Benjamin Franklin described his attempt to achieve____

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moral perfection

155
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wrote YOUNG ABE LINCOLN

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Carl Sandburg

156
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wrote THE THREAD THAT RUNS SO TRUE

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Jesse Stuart

157
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wrote “Mission Accomplished”

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Elisabeth Elliot

158
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wrote “Philadelphia Childhood”

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Marian Anderson

159
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the first American woman to receive the Nobel Prize for literature

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Pearl S. Buck

160
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wrote about the pleasure-seeking generation of the Roaring Twenties

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

161
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known for writing science fiction and tales of fantasy

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Ray Bradbury

162
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One of America’s best-known humorists

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James Thurber

163
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journalists and novelists of the 1930s who shared the critical viewpoint of the Naturalists

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Muckrakers

164
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story that reveals the daydreams of a hen-pecked husband

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the Secret Life of Walter Mitty

165
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author that received a Pulitzer Prize for her novel, SO BIG

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Edna Ferber

166
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character that went on to night school to learn English

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Hyman Kaplan

167
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country where “The Enemy” took place

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Japan

168
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the object little Ede took from Billy Markey in “The Baby Party”

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teddy bear

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