Unit #8-#12 Flashcards
(102 cards)
1
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What work did this quotation come from?
“Trust thyself; every heart vibrates to that iron string.”
A
“Self Reliance”
2
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What work did this quotation come from?
“When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.”
A
“Voluntaries”
3
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What work did this quotation come from?
“Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.”
A
“The Rhodora”
4
Q
Who wrote Walden?
A
Henry David Thoreau
5
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Who wrote “Self-Reliance”?
A
Ralph Waldo Emerson
6
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Who wrote “The Experiences of the A.C.”?
A
Bayard Taylor
7
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Who wrote “O Captain! My Captain!”?
A
Walt Whitman
8
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Who wrote “Concord Hymn”?
A
Ralph Waldo Emerson
9
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What term refers to compact statements expressing a truth?
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Aphorisms
10
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Who was the founder of Transcendentalism?
A
Ralph Waldo Emerson
11
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Who was considered America’s most beloved hymn writer of the nineteenth century?
A
Fanny Crosby
12
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Who wrote “My Old Kentucky Home”?
A
Stephen Foster
13
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What educator shared “The Secret of Progress”?
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Booker T. Washington
14
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What is America’s unique contribution to folk music?
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Spirituals
15
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What poem reveals a father’s desire for his son to have character?
A
“A Father’s Prayer”
16
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Legendary railroad hero
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“John Henry”
17
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Warning against humanism
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“A World Split Apart”
18
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Argument against evolution
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“Is the Bible True?”
19
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Lament of a dying cowboy
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“Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie”
20
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Writer’s role in contemporary society
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“The Nobel Prize Speech”
21
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Who wrote “A Father’s Prayer”?
A
Douglas MacArthur
22
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Who wrote “Close to Thee”?
A
Fanny Crosby
23
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Who wrote “I Hear America Singing”?
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Walt Whitman
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Who wrote “Oh! Susanna”?
A
Stephen Foster
25
Which poem commemorates the first shots fired in the War for Independence?
"Concord Hymn"
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What poem's theme is that things are only beautiful in the right surroundings?
"Each and All"
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What poem's theme is everyone and everything has a purpose?
"Fable"
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William Jennings Bryan's argument against evolution
"Is the Bible True"
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In "A World Split Apart," the West was warned about the threat of what?
Humanism
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Who challenges future writers not to forget "the problems of the human heart in his Nobel Prize Speech?
William Faulkner
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What work became the Bible of the Transcendentalists?
"Nature"
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Who is America's most beloved popular-song composer?
Stephen Foster
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Who was America's first modern poet?
Walt Whitman
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What song's theme is that of a sentimental look at rural life?
"My Old Kentucky Home"
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What work did this quotation come from?
"I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there"
Walden
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What work did this quotation come from?
"None of us were prepared for such a sudden and complete wreck of our Arcadian scheme"
"The Experiences of the A.C."
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What work did this quotation come from?
"With malice toward none; with charity for all; ... let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds"
Second Inaugural Address
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What work did this quotation come from?
"Here once the embattled farmers stood. And fired the shot heard round the world."
"Concord Hymn"
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What work did this quotation come from?
"Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid."
"A Father's Prayer"
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Who wrote "Employments of Heaven"?
T. DeWitt Talmage
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Who wrote "Evolution"?
R. G. Lee
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Who wrote "Nuts for Skeptics to Crack"?
Billy Sunday
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Who wrote "Selfishness Not True Religion"?
Charles G. Finney
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Who wrote "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"?
Jonathan Edwards
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"A church within a church, a republic within a republic, a world within a world, is spelled by four letters-home!" is an example of what literary device?
Metaphor
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"The white rose is a cleaner white;/ Since God washed every fragrant face/ And put them all to bed" is an example of what literary device?
Personification
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"The wrath of God is like great waters that are dammed for the present" is an example of what literary device?
Simile
48
What poem teaches the importance of teaching children about God?
"The Bent Twig"
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Who poem's theme is that God has a plan for our lives?
"Long and Long Ago"
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What work did this quotation come from?
"Mortality's Ground Floor is Mortality-"
"If My Bark Sink"
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What work did this quotation come from?
"I can not say, and I will not say
That he is dead. - He is just away!"
"Away"
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What work did this quotation come from?
"But Love and I had the wit to win;
We drew a circle that took him in!"
"Outwitted"
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What work did this quotation come from?
"How frugal is the Chariot
That bears that Human soul."
"There is no Frigate like a Book"
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What work did this quotation come from?
"'Twas on a tree they slew Him - last
When out of the woods He came."
"A Ballad of Trees and the Master"
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Which author was known as the Hoosier Poet?
James Whitcomb Riley
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Which author was known for attempting to combine musical techniques in his poetry?
Sidney Lanier
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Which author wrote almost two thousand poems, most of which were published posthumously?
Emily Dickinson
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Who wrote "Outwitted"?
Edwin Markham
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Who wrote "When the Frost is in the Punkin"?
James Whitcomb Riley
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An expressed comparison of unlike things in which the words like, as resembles, or similar to are used
Simile
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A phrase or sentence which is repeated at intervals
Refrain
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A meaning in itself which also represents another thing
Symbol
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A comparison in which human qualities are given to an inanimate object or an animal
Personification
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An implied comparison in which one thing is described in terms of another
Metaphor
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What work did this quotation come from?
"That God COULD not pour His riches
Into hands already full!"
"Treasures"
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What work did this quotation come from?
"Can you tell me why it is that a black cow can eat green grass and give white milk?"
"Nuts for Skeptics to Crack"
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What work did this quotation come from?
"The wrath of God is like great waters that are dammed for the present; they increase more and more, and rise higher and higher, till an outlet is given."
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
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What work did this quotation come from?
"A supreme regard to our own happiness is inconsistent with true religion"
"Selfishness Not True Religion"
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What sermon gives an illustration of what departed friends are now doing?
Employment of Heaven
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What sermon teaches that why something is done is more important than what is done?
The All-Importance of Motives
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What ball player became a great revivalist?
Billy Sunday
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Who wrote "There Is No Frigate like a Book"?
Emily Dickinson
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Who wrote "Song of the Chattahoochee?"
Sidney Lanier
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What work does each theme come from?
We don't know our abilities until we are challenged
"We Never Know How High We Are"
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What work does each theme come from?
Importance of a happy home
"Conjugal Harmony"
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What work does each theme come from?
God has a plan for your life
"Long and Long Ago"
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What work does each theme come from?
God wants to bless us if we will let him
"Treasure"
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What work does each theme come from?
God can cleanse us
"I Saw God Wash The World"
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Who wrote "Eletelephony"?
Laura E. Richards
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Who preached "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"?
Jonathan Edwards
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Who preached "Evolution"?
R. G. Lee
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Who wrote the following quote: "But Love and I had the wit to win;/ We drew a circle that took him in!"
Edwin Markham
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Who wrote "The Bent Twig"?
Martha Snell Nicholson
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The servant sent to follow Ben-Hur
Malluch
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Ben-Hur's sister
Tirzah
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The "friend" who accused Ben-Hur of murder
Messala
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The wealthy merchant's daughter
Esther
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The man whose horses Ben-Hur wanted to use for the chariot race
Ilderim
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Merchant and former servant of Ben-Hur's father
Simonides
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Who wrote Ben-Hur?
Lew Wallace
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Who was the man that had a connection to the Christ child?
Balthasar
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What city did Ben-Hur sail to at the beginning of the story?
Antioch
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What did Ben-Hur's former servant require of Ben-Hur at their meeting?
Proof of identity
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Eliza Jane Dimmidge
"The Boom in the Calaveras Clarion"
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Ralph Hartsook
The Hoosier School-Master
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Candace Whitcomb
"A Village Singer"
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Jim Butler
"Under the Lion's Paw"
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Alma Way
"A Village Singer"
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______________is a view of life which emphasizes a detached scientific and photographic accuracy which includes everything and selects nothing
Naturalism
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_____ _______ was the first prose writer after the Civil War to gain popularity and became the leading local color writer of his day
Bret Harte
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______ ______ writing is portraying in sketches and short stories the life of a particular geographical location
Local color
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______ _______'s most popular novel is Ben-Hur
Lew Wallace
