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Thoreau uses the example of a fire in Walden to explain how…

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People spend too much time on everyone else’s business

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A misgiving is a feeling of…

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Doubt

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Deliberately…

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In an unhurried and thoughtful way

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To pervade means to….

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Spread through all parts of something

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According to “Civil Disobedience”, people become “wood and earth and stones” when they..

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Follow an unjust government without thought

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In both essays, Thoreau seems to say that

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The mind is more important than the body

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What does impetuous mean?

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Hasty

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If people are congenial, they are….

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Suited to your needs

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What figurative language does Thoreau use in “Civil Disobedience” to clarify his concept of how to deal with unjust laws?

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He compares government to a machine and injustice to levers, springs and pulleys

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How does the author describe newspapers in both essays?

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Full of useless information

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What does abject mean?

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Contemptible

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To transgress means to..

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Violate a law

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If someone is congenial, that person is…

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Agreeable

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Where did the author live in Walden…

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In the woods near a lake

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What is perturbation?

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Agitation

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What does deliberately mean?

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Thoughtfully

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Thoreau left woods in Walden because he believed that…

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It was time for him to start a new part of his life

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At the conclusion of Walden, the author uses the imagery of a beaten path to explain why he…

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Decided it was time to leave

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Which statement best explains Thoreau’s objections to a standing government in “Civil Disobedience bedience”?

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Government is sometimes inconvenient and can be abused

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The author pitied the state for putting him in prison because the action showed that the state…

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Could punish only his body but not his thoughts

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How are the traveler and the hostler in “The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls” different?

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The hostler interacts with nature and the traveler passes by nature

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How does the poet use rhymes between the stanza to emphasize the permanence of the tides of “The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls”?

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The first, second and last lines of each stanza rhyme

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Based upon the poem, why would you infer the traveler is returning to town?

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He is heading home before darkness

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In the first stanza of “The Tide Rises the Tide Falls”, the poet develops the idea of…

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Endless tides

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Name the literary device being employed: | “Darkness settles on roofs and walls,/ but the sea in the darkness calls and calls.”
Personification
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The speaker of “A Psalm of Life” would most likely describe life as a….
Journey
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Name the author of the following lines: | “The steeds in their stalls/ Stamp and neigh, as the hostler call;”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The speaker in “A Psalm of Life” highlights life’s difficulties when he or she says life is like…
A field of battle
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In the traditional poem “A Psalm of Life”, Longfellow most likely uses end rhyme in lines 29 and 31 to…
Emphasize the connection of all people
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Name the author of the following lines: | “Darkness settles on roofs and walls,/ But the sea in the darkness calls and calls.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The two poems are different because….
One depicts nature as caring and the other depicts nature as indifferent to human life
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Longfellow may use the rhyme scheme in the fifth stanza of “Psalm of Life” to help you remember that you should…
Engage in life instead of watch it go by
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From reading the poem, the time of the day the poem takes place is best described as which of the following?
Twilight
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Lines 6-7 of “Tide Rises the Tide Falls” most likely highlight Longfellow’s view that..
Time passes without concern for humans
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The two poems are similar because they…
Depicts nature as lasting forever
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Name the work | “The steeds in their stalls/ Stamp neigh, as the hostler calls;”
“The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
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Name the literary device being employed. | “The steeds in their stalls/Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls;”
Onomatatopeia
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In “The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls”which lines best exemplifies aspects of Romanticism?
Line 9
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What is the basic meaning of the first stanza of the traditional poem “The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls?
The tide rises and falls and the birds sing as the traveler goes toward town
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“The Tide Rises, the tide Falls” begins at twilight and ends at…
Dawn
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What image do both poets use to discuss human acts?
Footprints
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What does the speaker of “The Tide Rises the Tide Falls” explain about human life?
It ends but the world continues
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The line “And the tide rises and the tide falls” is best described as which poetic device?
Refrain
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What time frame do the events of “The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls’ happen in?
Twilight to dawn
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What does the speaker say you should do lines 21-23 of “Psalm of Life”?
Act in the present instead of the past or future
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The word “hasten” in line 4 means…
Quickly
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Name the work of the following passage: | “Darkness settles on roofs and walls,/ but the sea in the darkness calls and calls”
The tide rises the tide falls
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Reread the sixth stanza of “A Psalm of Life.” What two things does the speaker say you need to live life fully ?
Heart and God
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The line: :The little waves, with their soft, white hands” is an example of which poetic device?
Personifican
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In “The Tide Rises and The Tide Falls” lines 1 and 2 are an example of which poetic device?
Couplet

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