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51 Cards in this Set
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- Back
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
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"The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver"
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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"The Red-headed League"
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Emily Dickinson
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"I Like to See It Lap the Miles"
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Walter de la Mare
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"The Listeners"
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Edgar Allen Poe
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"The Raven"
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Dorothy Sayers
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"The Inspiration of Mr. Budd"
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Who wrote "The Folly of Being Comforted"?
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William Butler Yeats
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What was the only thing the raven said to the narrator in "The Raven"?
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nevermore
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Silas Marner lived in what town?
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Raveloe
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William Strickland was guilty of what crime?
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murder
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"The Erl-king" based on an old German legend, was written by who?
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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William Rose Benét is what nationality?
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American
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Leiningen lived where?
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Brazil
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What was George Elliot's real name?
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Mary Ann Evans
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What is Platero?
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a donkey
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"The Road Not Taken" was written by whom?
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Robert Frost
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In "It Sifts from Leaden Sieves," what is IT?snow
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snow
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In "The Deserted House," Tennyson compared a deserted house to what?
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a dead body
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expressed comparison of unlike things
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simile
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addressing an inanimate object as if it were alive or addressing an absent person as though he were present
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apostroph
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arrangement of incidents or events in a story
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plot
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word that has meaning in itself but also presents something beyond itself
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symbol
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implied comparison in which one thing its described in terms of another
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metaphor
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comparison in which human qualities are given to inanimate object or an animal
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personification
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suggested meaning
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connotation
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words which appeal to our senses
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imagery
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Jabez Wilson
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"The Red-headed League"
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Jincey Webb
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"Good Morning, Miss Dove"
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Bess
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"The Highwayman"
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an exaggeration used to emphasize a truth
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overstatement
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Laura
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"The Garden-Party"
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Silas
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"The Death of the Hired Man"
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Lenore
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"The Raven"
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"You know I'm a jewel for 'ticing people into bargains. For which reason I advise you to let me sell Wildfire."
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Dunstan Cass
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"Forgive my hat."
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Laura Sheridan
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"It's like he pinned a medal on Miss Dove."
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Jincey Webb
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"It's been 'I will' and 'I won't' with me all my life--I'll make sure of myself now."
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Godfrey Cass
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landlord of the Rainbow Inn
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Mr. Snell
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skeleton found in Stone-pit
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Dunstan Cass
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town doctor
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offered to dig a garden at Silas's cottage
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Aaron Winthrop
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farrier
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Mr. Dowlass
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mole-catcher
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Jem Rodney
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parish clerk
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Mr. Macey
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Eppie's godmother
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Dolly Winthrop
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married Silas's fiancèe
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William Dane
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Who solves the mystery of the Red-headed League?
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Sherlock Holmes
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In "The Tell-Tale Heart," what characteristic of the old man caused the narrator to want to kill him?
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his evil eye
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Who said, "When a man turns a blessing from his door, it falls to them as take it in?
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Silas Marner
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What was the name of the place where Silas was born, and where he visited after his gold was found/
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Lantern Yard
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Who was Godfrey Cass's daughter?
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Eppie Marner
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