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89 Cards in this Set
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Wrote America Was Schoolmasters |
Coffin |
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Wrote Liberty and Union |
Daniel Webster |
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"In words you have a weapon more weighty than a gun." |
By Stam from A Jingle of Words |
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Written as a self defense against humanistic philosophy |
The Portland Declaration |
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Character Simon Wheeler |
The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County |
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Wrote The Innocents Abroad |
Mark Twain |
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Wrote The Mule |
Josh Billings |
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Pen name of Charles Farrar Browne |
Artemus Ward |
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Characters Hannah and Matthew |
The Great Carbuncle |
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Bray sisters |
The Towne Poor |
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Introduced the detective story |
Poe |
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Wrote The Cop and the Anthem |
O.Henry |
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First American writer to be recognized internationally |
Washington Irving |
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Belinda Watson |
From The Unerring Instinct |
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Wrote Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning |
Mark Twain |
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Wrote The Author to Her Book |
Bradstreet |
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Wrote Of Plymouth Plantation |
Bradford |
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Wrote On Being Brought from Africa to America |
Phyllis Wheatley |
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Wanted to kill John Smith |
Powhatan |
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America's only epic |
Moby Dick |
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Wrote A Rescue |
Cooper |
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Wrote Thanatopsis |
Bryant |
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Character Ishmael |
Moby Dick |
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wrote Paul Revere's Ride
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Longfellow
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character Nokomis
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Hiawatha's Wooing
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group of poets who wrote poetry that people enjoyed sharing with their family and friends
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Fireside poets
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Theme is actions have far reaching consequences
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The Arrow and the Song
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What is the Book our Mothers Read
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the Bible
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Theme is everyone and everything has a purpose
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Fable
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Theme is things are only beautiful when they are in their right surroundings
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Each and All
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Character Enos Billings
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The Experiences of the A.C.
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Wrote Oh Captain, My Captain
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Whitman
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Wrote Concord Hymn
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Emerson
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America's first modern poet
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Whitman
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wrote A Father's Prayer
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MacArthur
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Wrote The Secret of Progress
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Booker T. Washington
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wrote A World Split Apart
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Solzhenitsyn
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lament of a dying cowboy
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Bury Me Not in the Lone Prarie
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America's most beloved song composer
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Foster
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Most outstanding hymn writer of the nineteenth century
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Crosby
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"The twig was bent, the tree inclined, and so his hear and soul and mind, found it too hard a thing to do......" |
The Bent Twig by Nicholson |
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wrote Sinner in the Hands of an Angry God
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Jonathan Edwards
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wrote Evolution
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R.G. Lee
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wrote Nuts for Skeptics to Crack
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Billy Sunday
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Theme is the importance of a happy home
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Conjugal Harmony
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Theme is God has a plan for our lives
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Long and long Ago
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poem describes Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane
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A Ballad of Trees and the Master
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wrote When the Frost Is on the Punkin
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Riley
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wrote Song of the Chattahoochee
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Lanier
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"But love and I had the wit to win; we drew a circle that took him in." |
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Theme is we don not know our abilities until we are challenged
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We Never Know How High We Are
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Character Simonides
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Ben-Hur
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Character Ralph Hartsook
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The Hoosier Poet Schoolmaster
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Wrote Ben Hur
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Lew Wallace
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Who is famous for the Uncle Remus stories
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Harris
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"I made a little book, in which I allotted a page for each of the virtues." |
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin |
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Story about the life of Marian Anderson
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Philadelphia Childhood
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Character Guy Hawkins
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The Thread that Runs So True
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Character Jim Elliot
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Mission Accomplished
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Who wrote The Thread that Runs So True
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Stuart
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Character Emily Sparks
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by Masters; The Spoon River Anthology
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"My father used to say, superior people never make long visits." |
"Silence" Moore |
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"So all who hide too well away, must speak and tell us where they are."
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Revelation
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wrote We Wear the Mask
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Dunbar
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Character Selina Peake
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Cabbages Is Beautiful!
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wrote The Pedestrian
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Bradbury
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Mr.Mead was arrested for......?
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walking
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Group of naturalistic writers who believed people are victims of their environment
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Muckrakers
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An approximate rhyme in which initial consonant sounds are the same
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alliteration
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A compact statement expressing a truth
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Aphorism
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The repetition of vowel sounds
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assonance
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The repetition of final consonant sounds
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consonance
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Regional language used to make dialogue more realistic
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dialect
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an implied comparison in which one thing is described in terms of another
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metaphor
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words which sound like what they mean
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onomatopoeia
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a comparison in which human qualities are given to an inanimate object or an animal
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personification
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an expressed comparison of unlike things in which the words: like, as, resembles, or similar to- are used
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simile
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something which has meaning in itself, but also represents something beyond itself
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symbol
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the writer's attitude toward his subject
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tone
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author of The Scarlet Letter
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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major characters of the Scarlett Letter
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Hester Prynne, Pearl, Dimmesdale, Chillingworth
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Theme of The Scarlet Letter
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Sin and its consequences
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Chillingworth's famous quote
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"THOU HAST ESCAPED ME!!"-spoken of Dimmesdale
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"Daintiness she had decided should be the key note of her supper box." |
Cabbages is Beautiful! By Ferber |
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"Almost did I get down the hall." |
Mama and the Hospital by Forbes |
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"When John got old, he found solace in his child." |
The Baby Party by Fitzgerald |
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"There is something about him that looks American." |
The Enemy by Buck |
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"Humans should not be like enimals. They should be thinking." |
Mr. K*A*P*L*A*N Cuts a Gordian Knot by Ross |
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"The thought that cats can take care of themselves was all the luck that old man would have." |
Old Man at the Bridge by Hemingway |
