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Unit 5 Flashcards

I hate this so much

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What is the central idea which gives the story meaning; the interpretation of the events and persons in the story from which we learn some truth of human experience?

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Theme

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What is a type of irony that’s saying the opposite of what is meant

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Verbal irony

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What is a type of irony that’s contrasting what a character says and what a reader or audience knows to be true

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Dramatic irony

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What is a type of irony that’s presenting a discrepancy between appearance and reality or between expectation and fulfillment

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Irony of situation

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What is the ridicule of human folly or vice with the purpose of correcting it?

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Satire

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What is the manner in which the writer deals with his subject and the general effect it is meant to have on its audience?

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Tone

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What is a narrative or description in which the characters, places, and other items are symbols?

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Allegory

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What does Thomas A. Kempis say is the highest wisdom?

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To despise the world and aim at the Kingdom of Heaven

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What are the 6 vanities given in the Imitation of Christ?

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  1. To seek perishable riches and to rely on them
  2. To pursue honors and raise yourself to a high dignity
  3. To follow the lusts of the flesh
  4. To wish for a long life and care little about a good life
  5. To attend only to the present life, and not to look ahead to the future life
  6. To love what quickly passes away
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What are the 3 words of strength?

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Hope, faith, and love

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Who wrote Excelsior?

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Who wrote The Great Stone Face?

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Who told Ernest of the great stone face?

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His mother

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What are the names of the three people who supposedly resembled the great stone face?

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Mr. Gathergold, Old Blood-and-Thunder, and Old Stony Phiz

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Where was Nathaniel Hawthorne born?

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Salem, Massachusetts

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What century did Nathaniel Hawthorne write?

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1800s

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Why was Old Stony Phiz the saddest disappointment for Ernest?

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Because Old Stony Phiz was depressed and wasn’t able to encourage himself

18
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What is the theme of Work?

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To see that your work is a blessing, even though you may see it as a small job

19
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Who wrote Work?

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Henry Van Dyke

20
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Who wrote The Elixir?

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George Herbert

21
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What is the theme of The Elixir?

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That all of the work we do should be to glorify God

22
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What did Jimmy Valentine rename himself as?

A

Ralph D. Spencer

23
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What was the name of Ralph’s wife?

A

Annabel

24
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What was the name of the girl who got herself stuck in the safe?

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Agatha

25
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What was Ralph’s occupation?

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He owned a shoe store

26
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What was the name of the detective who let Ralph go free?

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Ben Price

27
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What is better than riches?

A

Knowledge

28
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What are the three ways a person can choose his soul to go in The Ways?

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The high way (Heaven), the low way (Hell), and in between (which end up resulting in Hell)

29
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What was the name of Much-Afraid’s family?

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The Fearings

30
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Who was Much-Afraid’s aunt?

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Mrs. Dismal Forbodings

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Who was Much-Afraid’s two cousins?

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Gloomy and Spiteful

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Who was Much-Afraid arranged to marry?

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Craven Fear

33
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Who was Much-Afraid’s neighbor who helped her by scaring her family away?

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Mrs. Valiant

34
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Who did Much-Afraid work for?

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Chief Shepherd

35
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Why did Much-Afraid want hinds feet?

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To reach the High Places

36
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Where did Much-Afraid meet the Chief Shepherd before they set off?

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By a pool

37
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What was Thomas A. Kempis’ occupation?

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He was an Augustinian monk who devoted himself to the copying of manuscripts and the training of other Monks

38
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Who wrote The Practice of the Presence of God?

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Brother Lawrence

39
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Who wrote Three Words of Strength?

A

Fredrich von Schiller

40
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Who was considered the greatest of all German dramatists?

A

Fredrich von Schiller

41
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Who was the most popular American poet of the 1800s?

A

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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