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36 Cards in this Set
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Who was the hired man that came "home" to die? |
Silas |
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What subject did Miss Dove teach? |
geography |
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The "landlord's black-eyed daughter" was named _____? |
Bess |
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Katherine Mansfield was born in ____. |
New Zealand |
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The imaginary persons who carry out the action of the plot are called? |
characters |
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A highwayman is a ____. |
robber |
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Mr. Gradgrind was employed in what field? |
education |
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A marquee is a ____. |
tent |
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The deacon's masterpiece lasted how long? |
100 years |
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A neighbor of the Sheridans was killed while ____. |
riding a horse-drawn cart |
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Who planted a kiss on Miss Dove's cheek? |
Randy Baker |
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Katherine Mansfield |
"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 |
"The Highwayman" |
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What did the mother give her son in "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver"? |
clothes |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes |
"The Deacon's Masterpiece" |
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Charles Dickens |
"A School of Facts" |
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developed and perfected the dramatic monologue |
Robert Browning |
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Robert Frost |
"The Death of a Hired Man" |
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wrote novels describing the life of the poor in early nineteenth-the twentieth century |
Charles Dickens |
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Which horse carried his rider all the way to Aix? |
Roland |
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considered by many to be the outstanding American poet of the twentieth century |
Robert Frost |
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What did Laura take to the grieving family? |
food |
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known as "Mr. Boston" |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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What event happened on the same day the deacon built his "one-hoss shay"? |
an earthquake |
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won a Pulitzer Prize for several volumes of poetry |
Edna St. Vincent Millay |
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conversation between characters |
dialogue |
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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." |
"The Deacon's Masterpiece" |
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method of presenting the reader with the material of the story |
point of view |
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"Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in." |
"The Death of a Hired Man" |
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an imaginative prose narrative designed to produce a single impression and to be read in one sitting |
short story |
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"I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three" |
"How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix"
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a character who undergoes some change and is different at the end of the story |
dynamic character |
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"You've need of clothes to cover you, And not a rag have I." |
"The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver"
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time, place and general backgroun of a story |
setting |
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ESSAY: Briefly explain some of the character qualities that Miss Dove encouraged her students to develop through her strong classroom discipline. |
Miss Dove had a long list of rules for her classroom. Some were their work was to be done on time, no hair chewing, no wiggling, and cover your mouth when coughing. Her rules encouraged her students to develop the qualities of fortitude, neatness, punctuality, and industriousness. |