ABEKA WORLD LITERATURE TEST 1 – Flashcards
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what subject did Ms. Dove teach?
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geography
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Katherine Mansfield was born where?
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New Zealand
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the "landlord's black-eyed daughter" was named what?
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Bess
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highwayman
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robber
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marquee
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tent
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a neighbor of the Sheridans was killed while what?
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riding in a horse-drawn cart
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imaginary persons who carry out the action of a plot
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characters
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Mr. Gradgrind was employed in what field?
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education
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the deacon's masterpiece lasted how long?
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100 years
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who planted a kiss on Ms. Dove's cheek?
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Randy Baker
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hired man that came "home" to die
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Silas
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horse that carried his rider all the way to Aix
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Roland
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event that happened on the same day the deacon built his "one-hoss shay"
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earthquake
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what did the mother give her son in "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver"?
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clothes
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what did Laura take to the grieving family?
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food
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Robert Frost
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"The Death of the Hired Man"
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Charles Dickens
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"A School of Facts"
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Katherine Mansfield
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"The Garden-Party"
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Robert Browning
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"How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix"
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Alfred Noyes
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"The Highwayman"
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"The Deacon's Masterpiece"
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developed and perfected the dramatic monologue
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Robert Browning
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wrote novels describing the life of the poor in early nineteenth-century England
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Charles Dickens
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considered by many to be the outstanding American poet of the twentieth century
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Robert Frost
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known as "Mr. Boston"
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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won a Pulitzer Prize for several volumes of poetry
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
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time, place, and general background of a story
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setting
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character who undergoes some change and is different at the end of the story
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dynamic character
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imaginative prose narrative designed to produce a single impression and to be read in one sitting
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short story
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method of presenting the reader with the material of the story
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point of view
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conversation between characters
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dialogue
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"home is the place where, when you have to go there, they take you in"
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"The Death of the Hired Man"
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"you've need of clothes to cover you, and not a rag have I"
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"The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver"
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"I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three"
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"How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix"
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"thut the weakes' place mus' stan' the strain; 'N' the way t' fix it, uz I maintain, is only jest T' make that place uz strong uz the rest"
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"The Deacon's Masterpiece"
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briefly explain some of the character qualities that Ms. Dove encouraged her students to develop through her strong classroom discipline
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Ms. Dove had rules for her classroom which encouraged her students to develop the qualities of fortitude, industriousness, neatness, and punctuality
