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77 Cards in this Set

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"forgive my hat"
"The Garden-party"
"into each life some rain must fall,/some days must be dark and dreary"
"The Rainy Day"
"this thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long"
"Sonnet LXXIII: That Time of Year"
"I know how the caged bird feels, alas!"
"Sympathy"
"How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,/in the icy air of night"
"The Bells"
"his queer long coat from heel to head/was half of yellow and half of red"
"Pied Piper of Hamelin"
British author who created Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Russian novelist
Leo Tolstoy
English poet of Italian ancestry
Christina Rossetti
writer from New Zealand
Katherine Mansfield
19th-century Victorian poet
Alfred Lord Tennyson
English writer of metrical Psalms
Isaac Watts
Only American to have his bust placed in the Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
French author who is best known for his novels Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Victor Hugo
American poet who wrote about New England rural life
Robert Frost
an opposing character or rival
antagonist
poetry with no metrical pattern
free verse
correspondence of sounds
rhyme
the main character or rival
protagonist
group of four lines
quatrain
occurrence of rhythm at regular intervals
meter
regular recurrence of sound or motion
rhythm
unrhymed iambic pentameter
blank verse
"the Squire's sister, as well as the doctor's wife--a double dignity, with which her diameter was in direct proportion"
Mrs. Kimble
found dead in the snow
Molly Farren
"she was the person always first thought of in ravel when there was an illness or death in a family"
Dolly Winthrop
drowned in the Stone-pits
Dunstan Cass
Raveloe's rector
Mr. Crackenthorp
"as for her own person, it gave the same idea of perfect unvarying neatness as the body of a little bird"
Nancy Lammeter Cass
orphan found on a hearth
Eppie Marner
wheelwright
Ben Winthrop
"for I am ugly--there's no denying that: I feature my father's family"
Priscilla Lammeter
tailor and parish clerk
Mr. Macey
innkeeper
Mr. Snell
married Silas's fiancee
William Dane
"I wanted to pass for childless once"
Godfrey Cass
What form of poetry did Robert Browning perfect?
the dramatic monologue
sonnet made up of three quatrains and a couplet
English
central idea which gives a work meaning
theme
arrangement of incidents or events in a story
plot
What is the "IT" in "I Like to See It Lap the Miles"?
train
Pearl S. Buck grew up in what country?
China
involves only one syllable
masculine rhyme
What subject does Miss Dove teach?
geography
Jimmy Valentine changed his name to what?
Ralph Spencer
wrote "i thank You God for this most amazing"
Cummings
How many lines are in a limerick?
5
wrote "The Pied Piper of Hamelin"
Browning
To say that a pine tree "sleeps" and "dreams" is an example of what?
personification
wrote "The Erl-king"
Goethe
Mr. Budd dyed William Strickland's hair what color?
green
Leiningen finally conquered the invading ants by doing what?
flooding his plantation
Edgar Allen Poe wrote a poem about a ____ tapping at a chamber door.
raven
hired man in "The Death of the Hired Man"
Silas
In what country did haiku poetry originate?i
Japan
What time of year is described in "Sonnet LXXIII: That Time of Year"?
autumn
wrote Silas Marner
George Elliot
How many lines are in a couplet?
two
A Petrarchan sonnet is also called what?
Italian sonnet
A sonnet is an example of what?
fixed form
In "What Men Live By," Michael learns that men live by what?
?love
Psalms use the construction of two or more thoughts in the same pattern called?
parallelism
wrote "The Destruction of Sennacherib"
Byron
"The and was ours before we were the land's" is an example of what?
iambic pentameter

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spondaic
' curve
trochaic
curve '
iambic
' curve curve
dactylic
curve curve '
anapestic
use of rough, harsh sounds
cacophony
use of soft, smooth sounds
euphony
The Gessler brothers in "Quality" made what?
boots
the one most like the Great Stone Face
Ernest
wrote "The Great Stone Face"
Hawthorne
still higher
excelsior
Thomas á Kempis wrote this devotional book
Of the Imitation of Christ
wrote "The Inspiration of Mr. Budd"
Dorothy Sayers