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25 Cards in this Set
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humorist and realist
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Mark Twain
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Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
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extended metaphor between book and river
hyperbole comic metaphor understatement |
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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
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point of view (omniscient, objective, and third-person limited)
scorns sentimental illusions people cling to |
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Theodore Upson
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teenage farm boy in Indiana - response to the attack on Fort Sumter
father got white, looked ten years older, didn't speak much, grandma cried, worried for her children in the south |
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Walt Whitman
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gruesome description of the wounded after the Battle of Chancellorsville
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Major Sullivan Ballou
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wrote to his wife Sarah; love letter
one week later was killed in First Battle of Bull Run |
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Alexander Hunter
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college boy who joined 17th virginia regiment; describes a meeting between union and confederate soldiers
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Abraham Lincoln
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how important the battle of Gettysburg had been; made this speech at the dedication of the cemetery in Gettysburg; most memorable of his career
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Susie King Taylor
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helped an African American troop w/ laundry and tending the wounded
memory of her experiences with black regiment at Camp Saxton in Georgia made custard w/ condensed milk and turtle eggs for wounded men in hospital |
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Frederick Douglass
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most famous African American spokesperson during war
inspired blacks in the north to enlist in Union army |
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Mary Chestnut
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her diaries present an invaluable firsthand view of the war
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Seth M. Flint
I Saw Lee Surrender |
union soldier who witnesses lee surrender
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To Build a Fire by Jack London
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cause and effect: plot is made up of a string of causes and effects
naturalism- presents human begins as subject to natural forces beyond their control |
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A Wagner Matinee by Willa Cather
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setting- time and location in which a story takes place
rural nebraska (narrator, like cather, spent his formative years) is contrasted with Boston and its thriving cultural life |
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His Father's Earth by Thomas Wolfe
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description- form of writing that uses sensory language to create images to convey moods or emotions
imagines himself selling tickets, putting up posters, and bartering with farmers for fresh food circus troop eats it was thru 40 states daydream- exuberant description of the states' geographical features and abundant crops coincides with daydream of arriving at his father's house - a place that is pure fantasy |
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Design by Robert Frost
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the strong eat the weak, slow are overcome by the quick
nature can be appalling, merciless, cold sonnet |
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Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost
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gold = perfection
biblical account of adam and eve's loss of innocence and expulsion from garden of eden; greek mythology account of the loss of the golden age, a time of innocent happiness that was an image of paradise for the ancient Greeks and Romans every good thing has to come to an end |
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Once by the Pacific Robert Frost
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let there be light & god saw that it was good
frost's vision of an event that is the opposite of creation "God's last put out the light was spoken" |
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Neither Out Far Nor In Deep by Robert Frost
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sea symbolizes peace and oneness with the world or powerful, mysterious force of nature
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Birches by Robert Frost
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parable- short story in which an ordinary event from everyday life is used to teach a much wider moral or religious lesson
frost draws lesson from nature - from the sight of the bent branches of birch trees |
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The Death of the Hired Man by Robert Frost
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home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in
something you somehow haven't to deserve dialogue in blank verse |
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A Worn Path by Eudora Welty
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theme- its main idea or insight into life
perilous journey- metaphor for life journey of love, sacrifice for her grandson |
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Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson
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rich, seemingly happy man kills himself
conventions of small-town life are a facade that often obscures unpleasant realities |
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Miniver Cheevy
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sometimes a longing for the past leaves people sorely disappointed with the present
dwell on today, not the past/future |
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own by Flannery O'Connor
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innocence beset by evil
dark hints that this is no comforting fairy tale or noble heroic epic ideals of romance and heroism are turned upside down foreshadowing- use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot suspense |