Abeka 11th Grade American Literature Test 12 (final Exam) – Flashcards
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Wrote Paul Revere's Ride
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Wrote Concord Hymn
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Daniel Webster
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Wrote Libery and Union
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Billy Sunday
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Wrote Nuts for Skeptics to Crack
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Jonathan Edwards
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Wrote Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
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William Cullen Bryant
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Wrote Thanatopsis
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James Fenimore Cooper
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Wrote A Rescue
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Wrote A World Split Apart
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Sidney Lanier
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Wrote Song of the Chattahoochee
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Jesse Stuart
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Wrote The Thread that Runs So True
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
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Wrote We Wear a Mask
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Anne Bradstreet
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Wrote The Author to Her Book
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Phillis Wheatley
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Wrote On Being Brought from Africa to America
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Elizabeth Scott Stam
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Wrote "In words you have a weapon, More weighty than a gun"
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Martha Snell Nicholson
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Wrote "The twig was bent, the tree inclined/ And so his heart and soul and mind..."
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Robert Frost
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Wrote " So all who hide too well away/Must speak and tell us where they are."
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Marianne Moore
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Wrote " My father used to say /Superior people never make long visits"
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Washington Irving
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1st American author to be recognized internationally
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Wrote The Scarlett Letter
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Pearl
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Hester's daughter
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Chillingworth
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Hester's husband
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Dimmesdale
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Chillingworth wanted revenge on who?
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Chillingworth
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Said "though has escaped me"
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Scarlett Letter
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Sin has consequences
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The Baby Party
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"I've never heard anybody so rude and ccommon in my life"
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Cabbage is Beautiful
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"Daintiness...should be the keynote of her supper box"
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Contents of the Dead Mans Pocket
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"And to live even a few seconds longer, he felt, even here on this ledge in the night, was infinitely better than to die a moment earlier than he had to"
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The Enemy
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"There is something about him that looks American"
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Mr KAPLAN Cuts the Gordian Knot
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"Humans should not be like Enimals! They should be Thinking!
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Old Man at the Bridge
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"The fact that cats know how to look after themselves was all the good luck the old man would ever have"
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The Baby Party
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"When John Andros felt old he found solace in the thought of life continuing through his child"
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Mama and the Hospital
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"Almost" she said wearily "almost did I get down the hall"
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Walt Whitman
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Wrote o Captain! My captain!
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Fanny Crosby
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Outstanding hymn writer of 19c
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James Whitcomb Riley
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Wrote When the Frost in on the Punkin
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Lew Wallace
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Wrote Ben Hur
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Ray Bradbury
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Wrote The Pedestrian
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Mr Mead
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Arrested while walking
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Moby Dick
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America's only EPIC
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Josh Billings
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Wrote The Mule
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Mark Twain
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Wrote mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning
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Joel Chandler Harris
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Wrote Uncle Remus
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Douglas MacArthur
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Wrote My Father's Prayer
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Stephen Foster
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America's song composer
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Conjugal Harmony
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Theme - happy home
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Fable
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Theme - everyone and everything has a purpose
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A Ballad of Trees and the Master
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Theme - Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane
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Philadelphia Childhood
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Marian Anderson's life
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Onomatopoeia
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Word itself makes sound
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Personification
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Giving inanimate objects/animals qualities of a human
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Alliteration
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Repeat of 1st consonant in words
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Simile
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Comparison using like or as
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Dialect
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Wording which is written per a geographic area, time period, or accent
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Assonance
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Repeat Rhyming mid word
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Metaphor
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Direct Comparison using is
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Tone
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Attitude or emotion author has towards subject
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Symbol
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Something that has meaning in itself and represents another thing as well
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Aphorism
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Compact staten expressing truth
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Fireside poets
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Group of poets people enjoyed at home with family and friends
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Muckrakers
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Name of group of naturalist writers who believed people are victims of their environment
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Edgar Allen Poe
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American detective story and horror poetry
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The Experiences of the AC
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Enos Billings
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Hiawatha's Wooing
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Nokomis
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The Unerring Instinct
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Belinda Watson
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The Great Carbuncle
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Mattew & Hannah
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The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calvares County
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Simon Wheeler
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Cabbage is Beautiful
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Selina Peake
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Spoon River Anthology
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Emily Sparks
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Mission Accomplished
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Jim Elliot
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The Thread That Runs So True
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Guy Hawkins
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Ben-Hur
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Simonides
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The Hoosier School Master
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Ralph Harstock
