Abeka American Literature Test 6 – Semester Exam – Flashcards
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Washington Irving
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author of "A Republic of Prairie Dogs"
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Carl Sandburg
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author of "They Have Yarns"
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Samuel Clemens
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author of "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
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Will Rogers, Jr.
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author of "Reflections on American Life: A Collection of Sayings"
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Edgar Allan Poe
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author of "The Pit and Pendulum"
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O. Henry
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author of "The Cop and the Anthem"
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Sarah Orne Jewett
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author of "The Town Poor"
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John Greenleaf Whittier
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author of "Snow-Bound"
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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author of "The Scarlet letter"
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Stephen Vincent Benet
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author of "American Names"
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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author of "The Ploughman"
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*The Village Blacksmith*
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written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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*A Fable of Critics*
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written by James Russell Lowell
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*Moby Dick*
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written by Herman Melville
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*Topsy*
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written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Hester
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who says "Thou shalt forgive me!"
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Chillingworth
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who says "Sooner or later, he must needs be mine" and "Thou hast escaped me!"
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Mistress Hibbins
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who says "Wilt thou go with us to-night? There will be a merry company in the forest."
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Dimmesdale
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who says "I........whom you so revere and trust am utterly a pollution and a lie!"
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Pearl
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who says "Wilt thou stand here with Mother and me tomorrow at noontide?" and "What does the scarlet letter mean?"
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Zekle
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character in "The Courtin'"
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Fedallah
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character in "Moby Dick"
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Deerslayer
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character in "A Rescue"
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Priscilla Mullins
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character in "the Lover's Errand"
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Nokomis
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character in "Hiawatha's Wooing"
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Belinda Watson
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character in "the Unerring Instinct"
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The Judge
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character in "Maud Muller"
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Bray sisters
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characters in "The Town Poor"
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Jim Smiley
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character in "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
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the Correspondent
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character in "The Open Boat"
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onomatopoeia
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Clatter, pop, bang
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alliteration
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and the *w*aves *w*ere *w*hite below
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metaphor
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Our noontide *is* thy gracious dawn
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dialect
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What interestin study it is to see a zewological animal
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simile
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These kegs, I'm told' the rebels bold, Packed up *like* pickling herring
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Theme of "The Present Crisis"
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do not dwell on past accomplishments
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Theme of "The Arrow and the Song"
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action have far-reaching consequences
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Theme of "Day of Doom"
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a picture of Judgment day
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Theme of "Meditation One"
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God's unconfined , overflowing love
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Theme of "A Jingle of Words"
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the power of words
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setting
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a term used to refer to the physical background of a story
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climax
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a term for the highest point of interest in a story
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imagery
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a term referring to words which appeal to our senses
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dynamics
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a term referring to a character that changes in the story
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The Bible
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the book in "The Book Our Mothers Read"
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"the Value of the Bible"
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a poem that presents the paradox that the Word of God is priceless yet free
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Moby Dick
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America's only epic
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"Shiloh"
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a poem that describes the Civil war battle fought near a church
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Samuel Sewall
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The man who courted Madame Winthrop
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Benjamin Franklin
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wrote "Poor Richard's Almanac"
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Fireside poets
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Group of poets who wrote poems people enjoyed sharing with family and friends
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Rhyme
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man's town, power in the air: woman's town, flowers in her hair
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the plot of "The Cop and the Anthem"
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A Homeless man makes several attempts to be arrested
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the plot of "The Pit and the Pendulum"
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A prisoner endures the horrors of a torture chamber
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the plot of "The Great Carbuncle"
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a group of people search for a precious gem
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the plot of "The Innocents Aboard"
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Two travelers act ignorant to their guide
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the plot of "Rip Van Winkle"
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A man awakens from a 20-year nap
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the plot of "The Unerring Instinct"
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a woman invents a story about the Smith family
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the plot of "The Open Boat"
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Four men on a lifeboat seek to get rescued
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the plot of "Moby Dick"
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a man seeks to kill a white whale
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the plot of "Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning"
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a man and a wife take preventive measures against a storm
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the plot of "Topsy"
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a man buys a slave to have his cousin teach her
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Robert P. Tristram Coffin
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"Nothing is lost yet, nothing broken, and yet the cold blue word is spoken say goodbye now to the Sun, the days of love and leaves are done."
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Anne Bradstreet
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"Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain."
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Herman Melville
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"The drama's done. Why then here does any one step forth? - because one did survive the wreck"
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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".......then only for a season, Our parting are, nor shall we wait in vain, Until we meet again!"
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Stephen Crane
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"they taught the nation fairness, Thrift, and the golden tongue."
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James Russell Lowell
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"Our Fathers fought for Liberty... but ourselves must set us free"
