State Quick Recall 3 Flashcards
Of the three unalienable rights listed in the Declaration of Independence, this right had not previously appeared, as the others had, in John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government. Name this unalienable right which Thomas Jefferson preceded in the Declaration with those of “life” and “liberty”.
Pursuit of happiness
Originally, this phrase referred to an opera’s principal female singer. Eventually, it expanded to include any uncooperative, vain person who won’t take direction or be a team player. Give this Italian phrase literally translated as “first lady.”
prima donna
This Chicago-set musical features a book by Tina Fey, who also wrote the screenplay for the movie on which it’s based. Its musical numbers include “World Burn,” “Someone Gets Hurt,” and “I’d Rather Be Me.” Identify this show in which Cady Heron temporarily joins Regina George and the Plastics.
Mean Girls
This rhetorical device has a name meaning “weather” in modern Greek. It is the counterpart of logos, ethos [EE-thohs], and pathos [PAY-thohs]. Name this device that convinces a reader or listener to take immediate action.
Kairos (KIGH-ros)
This current National Ambassador for Children’s Literature published a sequel to her Newbery-winning novel in 2021. That original book sees a 12-year-old balance life with her Cuban-American family
with life at Seaward Pines Academy. Name the author of Merci Suárez Changes Gears.
Meg Medina
This novel’s title character befriends Ginger and Merrylegs while living with Squire Gordon. He moves to London to pull cabs, but after nearly dying, he is rescued by a kind farmer. Name this novel that
Anna Sewell used to advocate for horses’ better treatment.
Black Beauty
This Renaissance artist of Mars and Venus included a self-portrait in Adoration of the Magi. His most celebrated paintings respectively feature a mythological scene set in spring and one in which a goddess emerges from a seashell. Name the painter of La Primavera and The Birth of Venus.
Sandro Botticelli
This author won King Author Awards for Her Stories, The People Could Fly, and Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush. She received Newbery Honors for In the Beginning and The Planet of Junior Brown. Who
wrote the Newbery and National Book Award-winning novel M. C. Higgins, the Great?
Virginia Hamilton
This artist spotlighted an elderly woman and young boy performing the title action in his 1951 painting Saying Grace. His painting The Golden Rule inspired a mosaic gifted to the United Nations in 1985.
Identify the painter of We, Too, Have a Job to Do, which appeared in a Boy Scout calendar.
Norman Rockwell
This poet of “1492” also wrote the sonnet “Venus of the Louvre.” Her best-known poem includes the instruction, quote, “Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…” Who wrote “The New Colossus,” which is on a bronze plaque in the Statue of Liberty’s pedestal?
Emma Lazarus
