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Test 12 Flashcards

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Henry wadsworth longfellow

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“Paul Reveres Ride”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Concord Hymns”

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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“A World Split Apart”

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Sidney Lanier

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“Song of the Chattaboochee”

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Jesse Stuart

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The Thread That Runs so True

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Paul Laurence Dunbar

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“We Wear the Mask”

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Anne Bradstreet

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“The Author to Her Book”

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Phillis Wheatley

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“On Being Brought from Africa to America”

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James fenimore cooper

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“A Rescue”

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William Cullen Bryant

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“Thanatopsis”

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Jonathan Edwards

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“Sinners In The Hands of an Angry God”

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Billy Sunday

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“Nuts for Skeptics to Crack”

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Daniel Webster

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“Liberty and Union”

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Who wrote the following line; “ In words you have a weapon,/More weighty than a gun—‘?

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Elizabeth Scott Stan

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Eons Billings

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“The Experience of the A.C.”

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Nokomis

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“Hiawathas Wooing”

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Belinda Watson

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“The Unerring Instinct”

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Matthew and Hannah

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“The Great Carbuncle”

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Simon wheeler

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“The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”

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Selina Peake

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“Cabbages Is Beautiful!”

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Emily Sparks

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Spoon River Anathology

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Jim Elliot

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“Mission Accomplished”

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Guy Hawkins

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The Thread That Runs So True

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Simonides

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Ben-Hur

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Ralph Hartsook

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The Hoosier School Master

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Who wrote The Scarlet Letter?

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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What was the name of Hester’s daughter?

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Pearl

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Who was Hester’s husband?

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Chillingworth

29
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Whom did the physician want revenge on?

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Dimmesdale

30
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Who said,”Thou hast escaped me”?

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Chillingworth

31
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What is the theme of The Scarlet Letter?

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Sin has consequences

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“Ive never heard anybody so rude and c-common in my life.”

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“The Baby Party”

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“Daintiness,…should be the key note of her supper box.”

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“Cabbage Is Beautiful”

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“And to live even a few seconds longer, he felt, even out here on his ledge in the night, was infinitely better than to die a moment earlier than he had to.”

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“Contents of the Dead Man’s Pocket”

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“There is something about him that looks American”

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“The Enemy”

36
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“Human should not be like Enimals! They should be Thinking!”

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“Mr. KAPLA*N Cuts a Gordian Knot”

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“The fact that cats know how too look after themselves was all the good luck that old man would ever. Have.”

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“Old Man at the Bridge”

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“When John Andros felt odd he found solace in the thought of life continuing through his child.”

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“The Party Baby”

39
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“Almost,” she said wearily,”almost did I get down the hall.”

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‘Mama and the Hospital”

40
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Who wrote “O Captain! My Captain!”?

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Walt Whitman

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Who was the most outstanding hymn writer of the nineteenth century?

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Fanny Crosby

42
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Who wrote “When the Frost Is on the Punkin”?

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James Whitcomb Riley

43
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Who wrote Ben-Hur?

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Lew Wallace

44
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Who wrote “The Pedestrian”?

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Roy Bradbury

45
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What was Mr. Mead doing when he was arrested?

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Walking

46
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What is America’s only epic?

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Moby Dick

47
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Who wrote “The Mule”?

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Josh Billings

48
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Who wrote “Mrs. Williams and the lightening”?

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Mark Twain

49
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What author is famous for his Uncle Remus stories?

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Joel Chandler Harris

50
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Who wrote “My Fathers Prayer”?

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Douglas MacArthur

51
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Who was America’s most beloved song composer?

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Stephen Foster

52
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What selections theme is the importance of a happy home?

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“Conjugal Harmony”

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What selections theme is that everyone and everything has a purpose?

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“Fable”

54
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What poem gives a description of Jesus in the garden of gethsemane?

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“A Ballad of Trees and the Master”

55
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What story is a journal of Marian Anderson’s life?

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“Philadelphia Childhood”

56
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“Her sandwiches were cubic blocks;… her pies vast plateaus.”

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Metaphor

57
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“Take from our souls the strain and stress”

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Alliteration

58
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“Sho’ nuff, Brer fox lif’ up his foot en holler wahoo!”

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Dialect

59
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‘Swift autumn, like a bonfire of leaves”

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Simile

60
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“And Death began to ride again.”

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Personification

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“Crash, and clash, and cleaning”

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Assonance

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“Clatter, pop, and bang”

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Onomatopoeia

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What term refers to the attitude or emotion of the author toward his subject?

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Tone

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What term refers to something that has meaning in itself which also represents another thing as well?

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Symbol

65
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What term is a compact statement expressing a truth?

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Aphorism

66
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What group of poets wrote the kind of poems that people enjoyed sharing with their family and friends?

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Fireside poets

67
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What group of journalists and novelists shared the naturalistic belief that people are victims of their environment?

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Muckrakers

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