Unit 6 Flashcards
Who captured Deerslayer?
The Hurons
Who rescued Deerslayer?
Chingachgook (Deerslayer’s friend) and English soldiers
What poem is a meditation on death?
Thanatopsis
Who tried to convince Captain Ahab to stop hunting Moby Dick and was his first mate?
Starbuck
How did they find Moby Dick on the first day?
They smelled it and saw it’s movement in the water
What was the name of Captain Ahab’s ship?
The Pequod
Who was the only survivor of Moby Dick’s last attack?
Ishamel
Who is the first man to die in Moby Dick?
The Parsee (Fedallah)
What seaman in Moby Dick prophesied the outcome of the voyage?
The Parsee (Fedallah)
What harpooner in Moby Dick was an Indian? What harpooner was African? What harpooner was native islander?
Tashtego; Daggoo; Queequeg
What poem was a reflection of the Civil Warh
Shiloh
Who wrote Shiloh, The Tuft of Kelp, Art, and The Whale?
Herman Melville
Who bought Topsy, the slave girl?
St. Clare
Who adopted Topsy?
Miss Ophelia
What Chief captured Deerslayer?
Chief Rivenoak
What was Deerslayer’s real name?
Natty Bumppo
Who wrote A Rescue?
James Fenimore Cooper
Who wrote A Republic of Prairie Dogs?
Washington Irving
Who wrote Moby Dick?
Herman Melville
Who was America’s first novelist?
James Fenimore Cooper
Who wrote Thanatopsis, To the Fringed Gentian, and To a Waterfowl?
William Cullen Bryant
Who wrote Annabel Lee, and A Dream within a Dream?
Edgar Allan Poe
Who wrote Topsy?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe is most known for writing what?
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Who wrote Two Years before the Mast?
Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Who is the first eminent poet of nature?
William Cullen Bryant
What author is the first writer of creative stories and sketches?
Washington Irving
What is America’s only epic?
Moby Dick
What is the name of America’s first great imaginative writers?
Knickerbockers
What is a question that expresses some idea but to which no answer is required or expected?
Rhetorical questions
A type of approximate rhyme in which initial consonant sounds are the same (as in tried and true)
Alliteration
The repetition of final consonant sounds (as in first and last)
Consonance
What is the use of words which appeal to our senses?
Imagery
