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66 Cards in this Set
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The author most intensely attracted to nature
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Robert Frost
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This person is focused on "self discovery"
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Maya Angelou
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Who graduated Valedictorian
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Robert Frost
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this author withdrew from society..almost completely
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Emily Dickenson
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Actor, singer, poet, playwright, and human rights activist
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Maya Angelou
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worked as a newspaper reporter
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Robert Frost
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wrote narrative poems
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Edgar Allen POe
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wrote gothic style
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Edgar Allen POe
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disapproved of romantic relationships
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Emily Dickenson
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orphaned before his 3rd birthday
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Edgar Allen Poe
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Wrote "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings"
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Mya Angelous
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was an agnostic
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Emily Dickenson
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wrote primarily during the Harlem Renaissance
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Langston Hughes
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focused on death and the sour
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Emily Dickenson
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forced to leave college because he/ she couldn't afford tuition
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Edgar Allen Poe
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tried to incorporate traditional
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Langston Hughes
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dropped out of Harvard to move to England to focus on writing
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Robert Frost
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published works of varying genres ( short story, poetry , novel)
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Langston Hughes
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once homeless and a prostitute
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Maya Angelou
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tried to write poetry that sounded like the spoken verion of jazz or blues
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Langston Hughes
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the travelor int "The Road NOt Take" believes that
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it is unlikely that he will have the opportunity to return to the place where the roads diverge
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Waht comes to visit the narrator in "The Raven"
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a raven
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an example of a way i n which Dickenson personifies death in "Because I could not stop for Death"
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She gives it a name and capitalizes the workd "Death"
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Who was Frost thinking about in his poen "A Road Not Taken"
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A person he knew
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Who does Hughes allude to when he mentions Bach in "Theme for English B"
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a famous white composer whho wrote most well known classical music
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seraphim
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swift, invisible way a scent spreads across the room
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Primary theme of "The Road NOt Taken"
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difficult decision
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alliteration in "The Raven"
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weak and weary
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phrase used in "The Raven"
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Nevermore
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the narrator of "Still I Rise"
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represents self
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Most clearly the theme "overcoming adversity"
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Still I Rise
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Most important sumbolic creature in "The Raven"
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The Raven
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Are the 2 roads in "The Road Not Taken" equally worn
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yes...they have worn "really about the same"
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What does the Raven represent
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no hope
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the assignment given in "Theme for English B"
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let a page come out of you
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the other creature considered to repeat "nevermore"
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a parrot
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Why did Poe decide not to use a parrot
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Parrots are funny
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Why did Poe think of using a parrot
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because parrots repeat things over and over
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Which version of "Because I could not stop for Death" did we study
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don't know...Dickenson wrote several versions of her final draft
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alliteration in "Theme for EnglishB"
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"Bessie, bop, Bach"
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tone of "The Road Not Taken"
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gloomy
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In "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" , the narrator compares death with
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dating because she dislike dating and thought it was something awful
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internal rhythm in "The Raven"
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dreary and weary
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symbolism in "Because I could not stop for Death"
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carriage ride symbolizing leaving life
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A "traveler" is the main character in waht piece
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"The Road Not Taken"
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The age of the narrator in "Theme for English B"
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22 years old
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Major tragic event alluded to in Angelou's poem
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Slavery
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who gave the assignment ,mentioned in "Theme for English B"
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the narrator's white college instructor
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example of repetition in "Because I could Not stop for Death
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the use of the word "pass" in different forms and tenses
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primary message in "Theme fo English B"
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regardless of color, we are all connected by the fact that we are all Americans
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simile in "I Rise"
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"I walk like I got oil wells pumping in my living room"
I dance like I've gpt diamonds at the meetiing of my thighs |
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most prevalent and significant repetition in "I Rise"
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The use of "I rise"
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Bessie in "Theme for English B"
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Bessie Smith- popular African American singer
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subject of "I Rise"
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the unbreakable spirit of the African American people
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Captures Frost's meaning in "Nothing Gold Can Stay"
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Spring never lasts-neither the literal not the metaphoric "newness" remains
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comparison made by author with the ongoin metaphor in "Birches"
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speaker sees himself swinging on birch branches- swinging back and forth between childhood and adulthood
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literary devices used in line 9 of "Birches"
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onomatopoeia
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literary device in line 3 of "Dreams"
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Metaphor
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most used writers craft in "A Dream Deferred"
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Simile
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first person
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speaker or writer referring to self
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vernaular
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words or phrases used by a specific group of people
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Harlem Renaissance
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time period of New York when African American artists expressedd themselves
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"autobiographical anthology"
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collection of works of any genre which tell about an authors life
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Seraphim
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one of the 6 winged angles allowed to stand in the presence of God
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agnostic
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someone who believes there may be a creator but doesn't believe that God takes a personal interest in His creation
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Free Verse
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style of poetic compostion that doesn't follow the same rhythmic pattern through out
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