Final Exam Review Flashcards
poem that words have more power than gun
Jingle of Words
Daniel Webster speech that states importance of being unified
Liberty and Union
rhyming in the beginning
alliteration
rhyming in the middle
assonance
rhyming at the end
consonance
who did Simon Wheeler say would bet on anything
Jim Smiley
story in which tourists were mean to guide
The Innocence Abroad
wrote Innocence Abroa
Twain
Wrote Bumblebee and Mule
Josh Billings
words peculiar to a section of the country
dialect
asleep for twenty years
Winkle
wanted to spend months on the island
Soapy
couple that searched for the Great Carbuncle
Matthew and Hannah
became world famous; wrote Rip van Winkle
Washington Irving
invented detective story
Poe
attitude or emotion author uses to tell story
mood
convinced Lenora Smith’s were horrible
Belinda Watson
Mrs. McWilliams was afraid of
lightning
Day of Doom picture of
Judgment Day
wrote Author to Her Book
Ann Bradstreet
wrote On Being Brought from Africa
Phillis Wheatley
wanted to learn English
Kaplan
went out on the window ledge
Tom
stole teddy bear from Billy
Ede Andros
made dainty dinner box
Selina
author of Enemy
Pearl S Buck
author of Baby Party
Fitzgerald
Ede’s father
John Andros
Hester’s child
Pearl
Chillingsworth was a
doctor
how many scaffold scenes
3
meanings of the A in Scarlet Letter
- adultery
- angel
- able
“Sooner or later, he must needs be mine”
Chillingsworth
“Gather thine own sunshine”
Hester
“Gathering in the forest”
Mistress Hibbins
“Thou hast escaped me”
Chillingworth
” Thou Shalt forgive me”
Hester
main character
protaganist
appeals to senses
imagery
when characters stay with the same
static
has meaning in self but also other meaning
symbols
theme of Scarlet Letter
Sin has consequences
a meditation on death
Thanatopsis
Captain Ahab’s ship
Pequod
symbol of conscience in Moby Dick
Starbuck
describes Civil War battle by church
Shiloh
St. Claire purchased this for Miss Ophelia
Topsy
Two Years Before the Mast ailment
toothache
name of the Deerslayer character
Natty Bumpo
wrote A Rescue
Cooper
A Republic of Prairie Dogs
Washington Irving
first eminent poet of nature
Bryant
America’s only epic
Moby Dick
wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Stowe
Hiawatha’s grandma
Nikomis
teach that actions have far-reaching consequences
The Arrow and the Song
Challenges reader to focus on present not past accomplishments
Present Crisis
poem in which Maud was in love
The Judge
wrote Hiawatha’s Wooing and Paul Revere’s Ride
Longfellow
wrote Old Ironsides
Holmes
Groups of poets enjoyed by fire
Fireside
bible of transcendentalism
Nature
founder of transcendentalism
Emerson
everything is beautiful in own surroundings
Each and All
everything has a purpose
Fable
lived on Walden Pond
Thoreau
wrote Captain, My Captain!
whitman
Beauty is its own excuse for being
aphorism
most beloved hymn writer of 19th century
Crosby
prayed Father’s prayer
MacArthur
delivers the World Split Apart speech
Alexander Solzhenysten
World Split Apart warns of threat of
humanism
America’s unique contribution to folk music
spirituals
importance of a happy home
conjugal harmony
according to bryant, this false philosophy is attacking the Bible more than anything
evolution
why we do something more important what we do
All Importance of Motive
God has to take everything to bless us
Treasures
Jesus coming before the throne to take our cause
My Advocate
God has a plan long before we were thought of
Long and Long Ago
wrote Nuts for Skeptics to Crack; This Wonderful Temple
Billy Sunday
“And so his heart and soul and mind, find it too hard a thing to do”
Bent Twig (Nicholson)
wrote I Saw God Wash the World
Stidger
“Supreme regard to our own happiness…”
Selfishness, Not True Religion
description of Jesus in Garden of Gethsemane
Ballad of Trees and the Master
Those who do not win, count winning to be sweeter
Success is counted Sweetest
There is No Frigate Like a Book
Dickinson
Used musical qualities in poetry; wrote the Song of the chatahootchie
Lanier
Hoosier poet
Riley
” I cannot say, I will not say he is dead…”
Away
“Mortality’s ground floor is immortality”
If my Bark Sink
servant in Ben-Hur
Simonides
employee of Simonides sent to spy on Ben-Hur
Malluch
Ben-Hur’s enemy
Messala
Hoosier school master that thought of himself as a bulldog
Ralph Harstook
won spelling bee
Hannah
took out an ad in paper to get back at his wife
dimmidge
destroyed Haskins farm
grasshoppers
wrote Ben-Hur
Lew Wallace
wrote Uncle Remus stories
Harris
Victim of you environment philosophy
naturalism
tribe Eliot ministered to
Aqua
Franklin’s father wanted him to be a
printer
Fought Jesse Stuart
Guy Hawkins
Grew up in Philadelphia
Marian Anderson
wrote Philadelphia Childhood
Anderson
wrote Thread that Runs So True
Stuart
Sandburg compares fog to
cat
most characters pass away; wrote eulogy
Spoon River Anthology (Masters)
people dislike this because do not understand it
Poetry (Moore)
fig that alludes to wise and foolish man
Second Fig
alludes to the life cycle of a typical man
Anyone Lived in a pretty How Town
teacher in Sppon River Anthology
Emily Sparks
poem that memory is more valuable than else
Coin
wrote We Wear the Mask (doesn’t matter world doesn’t understand)
Dunbar
wrote Renascence
Millay
we want the world to understand us
Revelation (Frost)
superior people never make long visits
Moore (silence)
setting for Enemy
Japan
Mr Mead got arrested for
walking at night
made dainty supper box
Selina
wanted teddy bear
Ede
got stuck out on ledge
Tom
the journalists and novelists that shared the naturalistic belief
muckrakers
wrote Pedestrian
Bradberry
“Humans should be thinking”
Kaplan and the Gordian KNot
“There’s something about him that looks American”
Enemy
“Daintiness should be key…”
Cabbages is Beautiful
“When John Andros felt old, he felt solace…”
Baby Party
“The cat that the fact knows how to look after himself…”
The Old Man on the Bridge
” Seonds longer, out there on the ledge…”
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