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74 Cards in this Set
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Who was the first American woman to receive the Nobel Prize for literature |
Pearl S. Buck |
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Muckrakers |
Journalists and novelists in the 1930's who shared naturalistic belief that people are victims to their environment |
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"The Enemy" |
Took place in Japan |
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Scarlet Letter theme |
Sins will always be revealed |
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Fanny Crosby |
Most outstanding hymn writer of the 19th century |
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Fanny Crosby |
Most outstanding hymn writer of the 19th century |
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What was Mr. Mead doing when he was arrested? |
Walking around at night |
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Moby Dick |
America's only epic |
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Joel Chandler Harris |
Famous for his Uncle Remus storied |
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Joel Chandler Harris |
Famous for his Uncle Remus storied |
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Stephen Foster |
America's most beloved song writer |
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Joel Chandler Harris |
Famous for his Uncle Remus storied |
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Stephen Foster |
America's most beloved song writer |
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"Conjugal Harmony" |
Theme: the importance of a happy home |
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"Long, Long Ago" |
Theme: Everyone and everything has a purpose |
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"Long, Long Ago" |
Theme: Everyone and everything has a purpose |
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"Ballad of the Trees and the Master" |
Gives a description of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane |
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"Philadelphia Childhood" |
Journal of Marian Anderson's life |
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"Philadelphia Childhood" |
Journal of Marian Anderson's life |
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Fireside poets |
Wrote the kind of poems that people enjoyed sharing with their family and friends |
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Hyman Kaplan |
Went to night school to learn English |
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Hyman Kaplan |
Went to night school to learn English |
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Dagmar |
Had an operation for an earache |
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Tom Benecke |
Was trapped on the ledge of his apartment |
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Tom Benecke |
Was trapped on the ledge of his apartment |
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Sadeo |
Operated on an American soldier |
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Leonard Meade |
Arrested for walking on the streets at night |
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Ede Andros |
Took away a teddy bear at a baby party |
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Ede Andros |
Took away a teddy bear at a baby party |
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Nokomis |
From Hiawatha's Wooing |
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Ede Andros |
Took away a teddy bear at a baby party |
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Nokomis |
From Hiawatha's Wooing |
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Pearl |
Hester's daughter |
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Matthew and Hannah |
"The Great Carbuncle" |
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Matthew and Hannah |
"The Great Carbuncle" |
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Simon Wheeler |
"Notorious Jumping Frog of Calavrious County" |
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Matthew and Hannah |
"The Great Carbuncle" |
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Simon Wheeler |
"Notorious Jumping Frog of Calavrious County" |
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Selina Peak |
"Cabbages is Beautiful" |
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Simonides |
Ben-Hur |
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Mr. Dimmesdale |
In love with Hester; Pearl's father; Chillingworth wanted revenge on him |
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Mr. Dimmesdale |
In love with Hester; Pearl's father; Chillingworth wanted revenge on him |
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Chillingsworth |
Hester's husband; wanted revenge on Dimmesdale |
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"Thou hast escaped me" |
Chillingworth |
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Wrote "Cabbages is Beautiful" |
Edna Ferber |
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Wrote "A Rescue" |
James Fenmore Cooper |
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Wrote "A Rescue" |
James Fenmore Cooper |
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"World Split Apart" |
Alexander |
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"Concord Hymn" |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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"On Being Brought from Africa to America" |
Phillis Wheatley |
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"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" |
Jonathan Edwards |
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"Song of the Chattahoochee" |
Sidney Lanier |
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"The Thread that Runs so True" |
Jesse Stuart |
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"We Wear the Mask" |
Paul Laurence Dunbar |
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The Scarlett Letter |
Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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"O Captian! My Captian!" |
Walt Whitman |
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"When the Frost is on the Punkin" |
James Whitcomb Riley |
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"Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning" |
Mark Twain |
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"My Father's Prayer" |
Douglas McArthur |
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Alliteration |
An approximate rhyme in which initial consonant sounds are the same "Out of the Hills of Habersham" |
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Alliteration |
An approximate rhyme in which initial consonant sounds are the same "Out of the Hills of Habersham" |
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Assonance |
The repetition of vowel sounds |
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Consonance |
The repetition of final consonant sounds |
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Consonance |
The repetition of final consonant sounds |
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Dialect |
Regional language used by a argue to make his dialogue mode realistic |
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Consonance |
The repetition of final consonant sounds |
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Dialect |
Regional language used by a argue to make his dialogue mode realistic |
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Metaphor |
An implied comparison in which one thing is described in terms of another |
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Onomatopoeia |
Using words which sound like what they need |
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Personification |
A comparison in which human qualities are giving to an inanimate object or an animal |
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Simile |
An expressed comparison of unlike things in which the words like, as, resembles, or similar to are used |
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Tone |
Attitude or emotion of the writer to his readers |
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Symbol |
Something which has meaning in itself but also represents something beyond itself |
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Aphorism |
Compact statement expressing a truth |
