American Literature Exam- Unit #8-#9 Flashcards
Match each quotation with the correct work:
“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string”
“Self-Reliance”
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“When Duty whispers low, Thou must, the youth replies, I can”
“Voluntaries”
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“Then Beauty is its own excuse for being”
“The Rhodora”
Who wrote Walden?
Henry David Thoreau
Who wrote “Self-Reliance”?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who wrote “The Experiences of the A.C.”?
Bayard Taylor
Who wrote “O Captain! My Captain!”?
Walt Whitman
Who wrote “Concord Hymn”?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What term refers to compact statements expressing a truth?
Aphorisms
Who was the founder of Transcendentalism?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who was considered America’s most beloved hymn writer of the nineteenth century?
Fanny Crosby
Who wrote “My Old Kentucky Home”?
Stephen Foster
What educator shared “The Secret of Progress”?
Booker T. Washington
What is American’s unique contribution to folk music?
Spirituals
What poem reveals a father’s desire for his son to have character?
A Father’s Prayer
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Legendary railroad hero
“John Henry”
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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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Writer’s role in contemporary society
“The Nobel Prize Speech”
