American Literature Unit #10-#11 Flashcards
Who wrote “Employment of Heaven”?
T. DeWitt Talmage
Who wrote “Evolution”?
R. G. Lee
Who wrote “Nuts for Skeptics to Crack”?
Billy Sunday
Who wrote “Selfishness Not True Religion”?
Charles G. Finney
Who wrote “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”?
Jonathan Edwards
Who wrote “The All-Importance of Motive”?
What literary device is used here?
“A church within a church, a republic within a republic, a world within a world, is spelled by four letters– home!”
Metaphor
What literary device is used here?
“The white rose is a cleaner white:…/Since God washed every fragrant face / And put them all to bed.”
Personification
What literary device is used here?
“The wrath of God is like great waters that are dammed for the present.”
Simile
What poem teaches the importance of teaching children about God?
“The Bent Twig”
What poem’s theme is that God has a plan for our lives?
“Long and Long Ago”
What work did this quote come from?
“Mortality’s Ground Floor
Is Immortality-“
“If My Bark Sink”
What work did this quote come from?
“I can not say, and I will not say
That he is dead- He is just away!”
“Away”
What work did this quote come from?
“But Love and I had the wit to win;
We drew a circle that took him in!”
“Outwitted”
What work did this quote come from?
“How frugal is the Chariot
That bears the Human soul.”
“There Is No Frigate Like a Book”
What work did this quote come from?
“‘Twas on a tree they slew Him-last
When out of the woods He came.”
“A Ballad of Trees and the Master”
Which author was known as the Hoosier Poet?
James Whitcomb Riley
Which author was known for attempting to combine musical techniques in his poetry?
Sidney Lanier
Which author wrote almost two thousand poems, most of which were published posthumously?
Emily Dickinson
Who wrote “Outwitted”?
Edwin Markham
Who wrote “When the Frost is in the Punkin”?
James Whitcomb Riley
