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