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25 Cards in this Set
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What is a poem that tells a story?
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narrative poem
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What is a narrative poem, often with folk origin, intended to be sung in simple stanzas, usually with a recurrent refrain?
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ballad
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What contains 2 or simple sentences joined by a comma and a conjunction or semicolon?
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compound sentence
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What is a sentence that contains an independent clause and one of more subordinate clauses?
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complex sentence
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What has one complete subject and one complete predicate expressing a complete thought?
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simple sentence
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What contains two or more independent clauses and one or more subordinate clauses?
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compound-complex sentence
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What is a system of society in which there is no private property, the means of production are owned and controlled by the state, and has unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done?
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socialism
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What is an economic system that is characterized by private or corporate ownership of goods in which individuals or groups have control?
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capitalism
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What is a system of government that advocates the elimination of private property?
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communism
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What is a poem that has three lines, usually 17 syllables, and frequently describes something in nature?
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haiku
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What kind of a poem is made up of only 2 lines that rhyme?
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couplet
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What kind of poem is a humorous nonsensical verse of 5 lines with AABBA rhyme scheme?
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limerick
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What is poetry that expresses thoughts and feelings often in songlike form?
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lyric poetry
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What is a 14-line poem, usually writen in iambic pentameter with a dixed rhyme scheme, and usually a love poem?
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sonnet
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For which novel did Pearl S. Buck win the 1932 Pulitzer Prize?
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The Good Earth
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Name the English poet known for his dramatic monologues such as "My Last Duchess" "How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix"
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Robert Browning
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Which American writer is better known by his initials than by his name Edward Estlin?
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e.e. cummings
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Name the British author who created the fictional character Napoleon, the pig, in the 1945 novel Animal Farm.
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George Orwell
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Name the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, doing so in 1938.
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Pearl S. Buck
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Give the title of the Robert Frost poem that includes the line, "I took the one less traveled by."
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The Road Not Taken
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Which poet of the Harlem Renaissance wrote "Theme for English B"?
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Langston Hughes
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Which New England poet wrote over 1,700 poems but only had 6 published in her lifetime?
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Emily Dickinson
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On whose grave is the epitaph, "Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, I'm free at last"?
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Which English author, often called "The Poet's Poet", wrote "To Autumn" and "When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be"?
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John Keats
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Name the English author of Prometheus Unbound, and author who also wrote "Ozymandias"
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Percy Shelley
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