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“A republic of prairie dogs”

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Washington Irving

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“They Have Yarns”

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Carl Sandburg

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“The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”

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Samuel clements

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“Reflections on American Life: A Collection of Saying”

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Will Rogers jr

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“The Pit and the Pendulum”

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Edgar Allen Poe

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“The Cop and the Anthem”

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O. Henry

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“The Town Poor”

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Sarah Orne Jewett

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Snow-Bound

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John Greenleaf Whittier

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The scarlet letter

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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“American Names”

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Stephen Vincent Benét

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“Thou shalt forgive me”

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Hester

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“Sooner or later, he must needs be mine!”

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Chillingworth

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“What does the scarlet letter mean?…and why does the minister keep his hand over his heart?”

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Pearl

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“Wilt Thou go with us to-night? There will be a merry company in the forest.”

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Mistress Hibbins

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“I,…whom you so reverence and trust, am utterly a pollution and a lie!”

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Dimmesdale

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“Wilt Thou stand here with mother and me tomorrow at noontide?”

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Pearl

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“Thou hast escaped me!”

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Chillingworth

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“The Courtin”

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Zekle

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Moby Dick

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Fedallah

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“A Rescue”

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Deerslayer

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“The Lovers Errand”

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Priscilla Mullins

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“Hiawathas wooing”

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Nokomis

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“The Unerring instinct”

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Belinda Watson

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“Maud Miller”

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“The Town Poor”
Bray sisters
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“The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”
Jim Smiley
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“The Open Boat”
The correspondent
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Clatter, pop, bang
Onomatopoeia
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And waves were white below
Alliteration
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Our noontide is thy gracious dawn
Metaphor
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What a interestin study it is to see a zewological animil like a snaik under perfeck subjecshun!
Dialect
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These kegs, I’m told, the rebels bold, Packed up like pickling herring.
Simile
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Do not dwell on past accomplishments
“The Present Crisis”
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Actions have far-reaching consequences
“The Arrow and the Song”
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Picture of judgement day
Day of Doom
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God’s unconfined, overflowing love
“Meditation One”
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Power of words
“A Jingle of Words”
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What poetic device is used in the following quote: “Oh, London is a man’s town, there’s power in the air;/ And Paris is a women’s town, with flowers in her hair.”
Rhyme
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Who wrote “Poor Richards Almanac”
Benjamin Franklin
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What group of poets wrote poems that people enjoyed sharing with family and friends?
Fireside poets
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In “The Courtship of Madam Winthrop”, who courted Madam Winthrop?
Samuel Sewall
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Which poem describes a Civil War battle fought near a church?
“Shiloh”
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What story has been called America’s only epic?
Moby Dick
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What poem presents the paradox that the Word of God is priceless yet free?
“The Value of the Bible”
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What is the book in “The Book Our Mother’s Read”?
The Bible
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What term refers to the physical background of a story?
Setting
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What term refers to the highest point of interest of a story?
Climax
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What term refers to words which appeal to our senses?
Imagery
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What term refers to a character that changes in the story?
Dynamic
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A homeless man makes several attempts to get arrested
The cop and the anthem
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A prisoner endures the horrors of a torture chamber
The pit and the pendulum
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Two travelers act ignorant to their guide
The innocents abroad
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A group of people search for a precious gem
The great carbuncle
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A man awakens from a twenty year nap
Rip van winkle
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A woman invents a story about the smith family
The unerring instinct
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Four men on a lifeboat seek to get rescued
The open boat
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A man seeks to kill a white whale
Moby Dick
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A man and wife take preventive measures against a storm
Mrs.McWilliams and the Lightning
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A man buys a slave to have his cousin teach her.
“Topsy”

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