English 10 Final Flashcards

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Parable

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Short/ brief story designed to illustrate truth, moral lesson or religious principal

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Allegory

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Symbolic narrative that represents abstract or spiritual meaning

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Allusion

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A reference to something else from a literature piece

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Fable

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Usually a short tale for kids to teach a moral lesson

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Microcosm

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Something smaller imitating something larger

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Psalms

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Songs

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Symbol

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Anything that stands for or represents something else

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Imagery

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The descriptive language used in literature to re-create sensory experiences

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Where was Mesopotamia?

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Between Tigris and Euphrates river

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What did mesoptamia, Babylonians have in common ?

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Fertile lands and floods

Common stories

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What was the Babylonians language?

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Akkadian

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What culture was located in Nile river, obsessed with Afterlife, different religion but same as Christianity?

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Egyptians

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What did Noah and Gilgamesh have in common ?

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The goodness, flood, #2,7 and 40 , dove and covenant represents gds promise

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Where is Ruth from?

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Moab

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What religion is moami and Ruth?

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M is Jewish and Ruth is not

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Where does the book of Ruth take. Place ?

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Bethlehem

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When does Ruth pick up leftovers ?

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After the servants

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Was isaac the first or second child?

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Second child.

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Who wrote Pericles funeral oration?

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Thucydides

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Who was ditto ?

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Queen of Carthage.

Carthage always fighting and part of Punic life.

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What version is genesis 6-9 ?

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The King James Version.

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What version is the book of Ruth?

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The King James Version.

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Theme

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The work of literature is it’s central idea concern or insight to life.

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A biblical hero

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Heroes that tend to be bold and resourceful beyond the means of ordinary mortals.

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Extended metaphor

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One that is developed at length and includes several points of comparison

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Oration

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A formal speech intended to inspire listeners and incite them to action

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Dramatic monologue

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An elaborate and revealing speech by one person