English Exam on Units 1-5 Flashcards
“Be slow in chusing a Friend, slower in changing.”
Poor Richard’s Almanack
“Common Sense,” “The Crisis”
Thomas Paine
“Paul Revere’s Ride”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What did the scarlet letter that Hester Prynne wore stand for?
Adultery or adulteress is the most obvious meaning, but other ideas have been suggested. One person in town gave it the meaning “Able.”
“These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.”
“The Crisis”
“The same platform or scaffold, black and weather-stained with the storm or sunshine of seven long years, and footworn, too, with the treat of many culprits who had since ascended it, remained standing beneath the balcony of the meeting-house. The minister went up the steps.
The Scarlett Letter
First writing by Europeans in America
Journals
“By a fraction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community. There are two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction: the one, by removing its causes, the other, by controlling its effects.”
The Federalist Papers or The Federalist Number 10
First book printed in America
Bay Psalm Book
“Concord Hymn”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To My Dear and Loving Husband”
Anne Bradstreet
Slave who wrote poetry
Phillis Wheatley
Poor Richard’s Almanack
Bejamin Franklin
How does The Scarlett Letter show the effect of sin that is hidden and sin that is brought into the open?
Sin that is kept hidden eats away and destroys, but sin that is dealt with openly can be overcome.
How were people mistaken about Arthur Dimmesdale’s character?
They thought he was strong and upright, but in fact he was weak and was an adulterer also.
