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English 1128 Flashcards

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1
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Author of “I Hear America Singing”

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Walt Whitman

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Author of “A Ballad of Trees and the Master”

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Sidney Lanier

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3
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Author of “Richard Cory”

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Edwin Arlington Robinson

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Author of “God Fashioned thw Ship of the World Carefully”

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Stephen Crane

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Author of “Light Over Yonder”

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Fanny Crosby

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Author of “The Red Badge Of Courage”

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Stephen Crane

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Author of “Saviour, More Than Life to Me”

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Fanny Crosby

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Author of “Dare To Be a Daniel”

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Philip P. Bliss

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Author of “A Man Said to the Universe”

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Stephen Crane

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Author of “Hold the Fort”

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Philip P. Bliss

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11
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The period between 1866 and 1914 is called the ______

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Period of Transition

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The Period of ______ was from the end of the War Between the States until 1877

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Reconstruction

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13
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This whole period was spanned by a movement of spiritual renewal called the ______

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Second Great Awakening

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14
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When men depart from Biblical standards, they become _____ in their philosophy

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humanistic

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15
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The poem _____ typifies what often happens to those who become disillusioned over material possessions

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“Richard Cory”

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16
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Luke ____ reminds us that life consists of more than the abundance of material possessions

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12:15

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17
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The literary technique of creating a vivid, realistic mental picture of a person is called _____

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characterization

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18
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Fanny Crosby and Philip Bliss were two important _____ of this period

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hymn writers

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Sidney Lanier, whose poetry often dealt with a Biblical theme, recognized that ___ and ___ are much alike in structure and composition

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poetry; music

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20
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The bitterness and despair found in Stephen Crane’s writings are an outgrowth of his rejection of ____ principles

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Biblical

21
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Mr. Crane turned to the new philosophy of “_____,” which falsely purports that man is a product of his environment

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naturalism

22
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Author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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Mark Twain

23
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Author of Life on the Mississippi

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Mark Twain

24
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Author of Uncle Remus

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Joel Chandler Harris

25
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Author of The Call of the Wild

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Jack London

26
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Author of “The Old Swimmin’ Hole”

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James Whitcomb Riley

27
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Author of “The Outcasts of Poker Flats”

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Bret Harte

28
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Author of Under the Lion’s Paw

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Hamlin Garland

29
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Author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Mark Twain

30
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Author of “When the Frost Is on the Punkin”

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James Whitcomb Riley

31
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Author of The Origin of Species

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Charles Darwin

32
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Faithful, God-fearing preachers warned about the dangers of the _____ philosophy of the Period of Transition

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humanistic

33
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A _____ is a pseudonym used by a writer

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pen name

34
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The term ____ describes writing that draws attention to regional interests, people, or nature

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Local color

35
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_____, who was from ____, is known as the “Hoosier Poet”

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James Whitcomb Riley; Indiana

36
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“_____” means two fathoms, or 12 feet, deep

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Mark Twain

37
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Injustices come to everyone, but the Christian should respond in ____

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love

38
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Proverbs 1:5a reminds us that “A ____ man will hear, and will increase ____.”

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wise; learning

39
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Sentence elements of equal rank are joined by ____

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coordinating conjunction

40
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Either-or is an exmaple of a ____

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correlative conjunction

41
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Adverbial clauses are introduced by ____

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subordinating conjunctions

42
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Independent clauses may be joined by ____ or ____

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coordinating conjunctions; conjunctive adverbs

43
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A ____ shows how its object is related to some other word in the sentence

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preposition

44
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Prepositional phrases modify nouns or pronouns are ___

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adjectival

45
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Prepositional phrases that modify verbs are ____

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adverbial

46
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Sentence elements that have n grammatical relationship to other sentence parts are called ____

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independent elements

47
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Feelings of emotion in a sentence are expressed by ____

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interjection

48
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The expletive there can never be the ___ of a sentence

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subject

49
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A _____ consists of a noun followed by a participle

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nominative absolute

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