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Unit 6 Flashcards

1
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America’s first great imaginative writers

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Knickerbockers

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first writer of creative stories and sketches

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Washington Irving

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3
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first novelist

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James cooper

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first eminent poet of nature

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William Cullen Bryant

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5
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Author of “ A Republic of Prairie Dogs”

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Washington Irving

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6
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where most of the great Romantic writers lived

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New England

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works of who involve highly imaginative, symbolic, and idealistic quests

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Hawthorne, Melville, Poe

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8
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two visitors that come to the prairie dogs

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owls
rattlesnakes

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9
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taught the young litter to bark

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owl scared them

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10
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wrote “A Rescuer”

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James Fenimore Cooper

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11
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young hunter reared by Delaware Indians

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Natty Bumppo

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12
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Natty closest friend

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young Delaware chief

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13
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first man to throw the tomahawk at Natty

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Raven

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14
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Raven was__________ by his miss

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humiliated

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15
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second man to throw the tomahawk at Natty

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Moose

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16
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result of Moose’s throw

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clipped Natty’s hair to tree

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17
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third man to throw tomahawk

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Bounding Boy

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18
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result of Bounding Boy’s throw

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hit cheek

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19
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second test for natty Bumppo

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rifles in face

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20
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saved Natty from burn at stake

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army

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21
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who saved Natty’s life

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Chief Chingachook

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22
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wrote “Thanatopsis”

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William Cullen Bryant

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23
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what did “Thanatopsis” say we will be reduce to when we die

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dirt

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24
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what else did “Thanatopsis” say about death

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  1. everyone will die
  2. you may not be remembered
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25
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how should we approach death?

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with courage and calm

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26
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Thanatopsis is considered a Meditation of

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Death

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27
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wrote “The Fringed Gentian”

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Bryant

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28
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what did Bryant hope would happen in “Fringed Gentian”

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hoping his latter years will bloom

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29
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wrote “To a Waterfowl”

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Bryant

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30
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the waterfowl is flying because of

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instinct

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31
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Bryant’s poem reflect ardent love for the

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beauties of nature

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32
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wrote “Annabel Lee”

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Edgar Poe

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33
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Who did Poe write Annabel Lee for

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wife, Virginia Clem

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34
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wrote “A Dream within a Dream”

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Poe

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35
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theme of “A

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36
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America’s only epic

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Moby Dick

37
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one of the greatest classics in all the world literature

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Moby Dick

38
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theme of Moby Dick

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consequences of deliberately choosing evil over good

39
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captain searching for the whale

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Ahab

40
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Ahab’s first mate

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Starbuck

41
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Ahab’s second mate

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Stubb

42
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Ahab’s third mate

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Flask

43
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former schoolteacher and the narrator of Moby Dick

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Ishmael

44
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Parsee who prophesied concerning Ahab

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Fedallah

45
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Fedallah’s prophecy was that

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Ahab would die after seeing two unusual hearses carrying the dead at sea
1. one not constructed with human hads
2. the other made of wood grown in America

46
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Fedallah predicted that Ahab’s death would be by

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hemp

47
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wrote Moby Dick

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Herman Melville

48
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Starbuck was a symbol of

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conscience

49
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Ahab was mourning what

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leaving his wife

50
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Ahab blames his search on

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fate

51
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lets people know Moby Dick is nearby

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odor

52
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what did Moby Dick do to the boat

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bit it in half

53
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Ahab is thrown where in the first chase?

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water

54
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Ahab promised his men what if they spot Moby first

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gold (doubloon)

55
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what did Moby Dick do the second time he is spotted?

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gets harpoon cords, wraps them, and smashes them together

breaks Ahab’s ivory leg

56
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who dies in the second encounter/day with Moby?

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Fedallah

caught in harpoon lines and dragged under

57
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the first hearse

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Fedallah attached to Moby Dick

58
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second hearse

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Ahab’s boat the Pequod, made of American wood, causes the death of many

59
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what happens on the third day?

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Ahab dies

wrapped up in hemp and dragged under

60
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only survivor

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Ishmael

61
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what was Ahab’s replacement peg leg made of?

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broken keel of Ahab’s ship

62
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wrote Shiloh

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Melville

63
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where did Shiloh take place

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TN

64
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feeling words in Shiloh

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parched, pain, groan

65
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themeof Shiloh

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enemies in the morning
friends at night

66
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wrote “The Tuft of Kelp”

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Melville

67
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theme of The Tuft of Kelp

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Bitter or Better?

68
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wrote “Art”

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Melville

69
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theme of Art

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difficulty in the art

70
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poem with allusion

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Art

71
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wrote “The Whale”

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Melville

72
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whale is symbolic of

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despair

73
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“My song for ever shall record,
That terrible, that joyful hour;
I give the glory to my God,
His all the mercy and the power.”

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“The Whale”

74
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questions expressing some idea but to which no answer is required

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rhetorical question

75
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comparison without the use of “like” or “as”

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metaphor

76
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wrote “Topsy”

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

77
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who was Topsy given to as a gift?

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Miss Ophelia

78
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who gave Topsy to Miss Ophelia?

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Ophelia’s cousin Augustine

79
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Stowe and Dana are romantic in their

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sympathetic portrayal of the mistreated and the downtrodden

80
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wrote “Two Years before the mast”

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Richard Henry Dana

81
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the sailor was headed to

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Cape Horn

82
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the sailor was in pain due to a

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toothache

83
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t/F: the captain worked just as hard as his men

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FALSE

84
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a single watch/shift was ____________

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18 hours

85
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who helped take care of the sailor and his toothache?

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no one; he was one his own

86
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A

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