Who's That Pokémon? Flashcards
Be able to recognize passages from *everything* we read this year
Who wrote the following excerpt?
Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all government are sometimes, inexpedient.
Henry David Thoreau
Which text is the following passage from?
“Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all government are sometimes, inexpedient.”
“Civil Disobedience”
Who wrote the following excerpt?
[W]e have a universe in many editions, one real one, the infinite folio, or edition de luxe, eternally complete; and then the various finite editions, full of false readings, distorted and mutilated each in its own way.
William James
Which text is the following passage from?
[W]e have a universe in many editions, one real one, the infinite folio, or edition de luxe, eternally complete; and then the various finite editions, full of false readings, distorted and mutilated each in its own way.
Pragmatism
Which text is the following passage from?
He had just reached the time of life at which “young” is ceasing to be the prefix of “man” in speaking of one. He was at the brightest period of masculine life, for his intellect and his emotions were clearly separated: he had passed the time during which the influence of youth indiscriminately mingles them in the character of impulse, and he had not yet arrived at the stage wherein they become united again, in the character of prejudice, by the influence of a wife and family.
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
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For this is your home, my friend, do not be driven from it; great men have done great things here, and will again and we can make America what America must become.
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Who wrote the following?
Take up the White Man’s burden—
Ye dare not stoop to less—
Nor call too loud on Freedom
To cloak you weariness;
By all ye cry or whisper,
By all ye leave or do,
The silent, sullen people
Shall weigh your Gods and you.
Kipling
Which larger text was the following part of?
Take up the White Man’s burden—
Ye dare not stoop to less—
Nor call too loud on Freedom
To cloak you weariness;
By all ye cry or whisper,
By all ye leave or do,
The silent, sullen people
Shall weigh your Gods and you.
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Which larger text was the following part of?
Down at the cross where my Saviour died,
Down where for cleansing from sin I cried,
There to my heart was the blood applied,
Singing glory to His name!
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Which text is the following passage from?
Go, going north, and rising on the wings of power, had become white, and Allah, out of power, and on the dark side of Heaven, had become—for all practical purposes, anyway—black.
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
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Why, if ‘tis dancing you would be,
There’s brisker pipes than poetry.
Say, for what were hop-yards meant,
Or why was Burton built on Trent?
Oh many a peer of England brews
Livelier liquor than the Muse,
And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God’s ways to man.
[“Terence, this is stupid stuff”] by A.E. Housman
Which text is the following excerpt from?
And if any man should do wrong merely out of ill-nature, that is like the thorn or briar, which prick and scratch because that is all they can do.
“Of Revenge” by Francis Bacon
Which text is the following excerpt from?
He reviled and railed at fate and the general scheme of things, he pitied himself with a strong, deep pity too poignent for tears, he condemned every one with whom he had ever come in contact to endless and abnormal punishments. In fact, he conveyed the impression that if a destroying angel had been lent to him for a week it would have had very little time for private study.
“The Bag” by Saki (H.H. Munro)
Which text is the following excerpt from?
The sun, they say, does not shed its light in one continuous flow but ceaselessly darts fresh rays so thickly at us, one after the other, that we cannot perceive any gap between them…So, too, our soul darts its arrows separately but imperceptibly.
“How We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thing” by Michel de Montaigne
Which poem is this?
“Had he and I but met
By some old ancient inn,
We should have sat us down to wet
Right many a nipperkin!
"But ranged as infantry,
And staring face to face, I shot at him as he at me,
And killed him in his place.
"I shot him dead because —
Because he was my foe, Just so: my foe of course he was;
That's clear enough; although
"He thought he'd 'list, perhaps,
Off-hand like — just as I — Was out of work — had sold his traps —
No other reason why.
"Yes; quaint and curious war is!
You shoot a fellow down You'd treat if met where any bar is,
Or help to half-a-crown."
The Man He Killed by Thomas Hardy
What poem is this?
“O ‘Melia, my dear, this does everything crown!
Who could have supposed I should meet you in Town?
And whence such fair garments, such prosperi-ty?” —
“O didn’t you know I’d been ruined?” said she.
— “You left us in tatters, without shoes or socks,
Tired of digging potatoes, and spudding up docks;
And now you’ve gay bracelets and bright feathers three!” —
“Yes: that’s how we dress when we’re ruined,” said she.
— “At home in the barton you said thee’ and thou,’
And thik oon,’ and theäs oon,’ and t’other’; but now
Your talking quite fits ‘ee for high compa-ny!” —
“Some polish is gained with one’s ruin,” said she.
— “Your hands were like paws then, your face blue and bleak
But now I’m bewitched by your delicate cheek,
And your little gloves fit as on any la-dy!” —
“We never do work when we’re ruined,” said she.
— “You used to call home-life a hag-ridden dream,
And you’d sigh, and you’d sock; but at present you seem
To know not of megrims or melancho-ly!” —
“True. One’s pretty lively when ruined,” said she.
— “I wish I had feathers, a fine sweeping gown,
And a delicate face, and could strut about Town!” —
“My dear — a raw country girl, such as you be,
Cannot quite expect that. You ain’t ruined,” said she.
The Ruined Maid by Thomas Hardy
What poem is this?
We stood by a pond that winter day,
And the sun was white, as though chidden of God,
And a few leaves lay on the starving sod;
– They had fallen from an ash, and were gray.
Your eyes on me were as eyes that rove
Over tedious riddles of years ago;
And some words played between us to and fro
On which lost the more by our love.
The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing
Alive enough to have strength to die;
And a grin of bitterness swept thereby
Like an ominous bird a-wing….
Since then, keen lessons that love deceives,
And wrings with wrong, have shaped to me
Your face, and the God curst sun, and a tree,
And a pond edged with grayish leaves.
Neutral Tones by Thomas Hardy
Which text does the following excerpt come from?
We would sit down, and think which way
To walk, and pass our long love’s day.
Thou by the Indian Ganges’ side
Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide
Of Humber would complain. I would
Love you ten years before the flood,
And you should, if you please, refuse
Till the conversion of the Jews.
“To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell
Which text does the following excerpt come from?
But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken with eclat, he is a committed person, watched by the sympathy or the hatred of hundreds, whose affections must now enter into his account. There is no Lethe for this.
“Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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That divided and rebel mind, that distrust of a sentiment because our arithmetic has computed the strength and means opposed to our purpose, these [children, babes, and brutes] have not.
Which text does the following excerpt come from?
He is a retained attorney, and these airs of the bench are the emptiest affectation.
“Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson
