Unit 10-The Natural World: Setting+Unit 11-The Search for Light: The Ancient East Flashcards
What is the physical background against which the events of a story take place?
Setting
Who wrote the poem “Crystal Moment”?
Robert P. Tristram Coffin
Who was the American poet from Maine, essayist, novelist, and college professor, who graduated from Bowdoin College an later returned as a teacher, and won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1936?
Robert P. Tristram Coffin
Who wrote “A White Heron”?
Sarah Orne Jewett
Who was the novelist, essayist, and short story writer from Maine, who is known for her beautiful descriptions of the life and countryside of nineteenth-century New England, and her masterpiece being “The Country of the Pointed Firs”?
Sarah Orne Jewett
Who wrote the poem “The Eagle”?
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Who wrote the poem “A Prayer in Spring”?
Robert Frost
Who was the American poet who wrote many antislavery poems, and his Biglow Papers was the first successful attempt to use the Yankee dialect in literature?
James Russel Lowell
Who wrote the poem “What Is So Rare as a Day in June”?
James Russel Lowell
Who wrote the story “To Build A Fire”?
Jack London
Who was the American short story writer from San Francisco, who became a socialist because he was influenced by atheists such as Darwin, Marx, and Nietzsche, and his most popular works are Call of the Wild, and White Fang?
Jack London
Who wrote the poem “Agnus McGregor”?
Lew Sarett
Who was the poet from Chicago who was a professor of speech at Northwestern University, and his poetry was often about the American Indians, wildlife, and the Canadian North?
Lew Sarett
Who wrote the story “Lost in the Sahara”?
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Who was the French novelist and aviator who pioneered in the exploration of new air routes over Africa and South America, flew with the French Air Force during World War II, and his most popular work is “The Little Prince”?
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Who wrote the sonnet “There Is a Tide”?
Robert Nathan
Who wrote the story “Kon-Tiki”?
Thor Heyerdahl
Who was the author who was a Norwegian adventurer, won fame for his voyage in the Kon-Tiki, a balsa wood raft which he sailed from Peru to Polynesia?
Thor Heyerdahl
Who wrote the sonnet “Once by the Pacific”?
Robert Frost
What is a long, narrative poem in elevated style which presents characters and action of heroic proportions?
Epic
Who was the father of modern missions, who taught himself Greek, Latin, French, and Dutch, which aided him greatly in his missionary work in India, wrote grammar books in six different languages, as well as dictionaries and textbooks?
William Carey
Who was searching for everlasting life in “The Search for Everlasting Life” in The Epic of Gilgamesh?
Gilgamesh
Who was Gilgamesh’s friend who died in “The Search for Everlasting Life” from The Epic of Gilgamesh?
Enkidu
Who guarded the gate of Mt. Mashu in “The Search for Everlasting Life” in The Epic of Gilgamesh?
Man-Scorpion
Who was the winemaker in The Epic of Gilgamesh?
Siduri
Who was the ferryman who brought Gilgamesh to Utnapishtim in The Epic of Gilgamesh?
Urshinabi
Who was the Noah-like figure in The Epic of Gilgamesh who Gilgamesh asked for everlasting life?
Utnapishtim
