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