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Mrs. Hawkins - 11th Grade Literature
Literature Test 12 Study Guide
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Literature
11th Grade
05/22/2013

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America's first great poet of nature; he wrote "Thanatopsis"
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William Cullen Bryant
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America's first novelist; he wrote

The Deerslayer

"A Rescue"

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James Fenimore Cooper
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Used themes of sin and guilt; he wrote The Scarlet Letter
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The author of America's only epic Moby Dick
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Herman Melville
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America's first internationally famous writer; he invented the short story
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Washington Irving
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The most outstanding hymnwriter of the 19th century
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Fanny Crosby
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Author of the Uncle Remus stories
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Joel Chandler Harris
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Was converted while studying the Bible for his novel Ben-Hur
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Lew Wallace
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Introduced the detective story, set down the guidelines for the short story
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Edgar Allen Poe
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They were known as "The Muckrakers"
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Group of journalists and novelists who shared the naturalistic belief that people are victims of their environment
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They were known as "The Fireside Poets"
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Wrote poems people read with family and friends in homes, schools, etc.
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Baseball player/preacher who preached "Nuts for Skeptics to Crack"
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Billy Sunday
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America's most popular composer of folk songs
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Stephen Foster
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Name the author who wrote

The Battle of the Kegs

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Francis Hopkinson
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Name the author who wrote

My Father's Prayer

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Douglas McArthur
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Name the author who wrote

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

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Jonathan Edwards
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Name the author who wrote

We Wear the Mask

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Paul Lawrence Dunbar
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Name the author who wrote

The Author to Her Book

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Anne Bradsheet
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Name the author who wrote

Concord Hymn

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Name the author who wrote

On Being Brought from Africa to America

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Phyllis Wheatley
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Name the author who wrote

Paul Revere's Ride

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Name the author who wrote

Song of the Chattahoochee

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Sidney Lanier
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Name the author who wrote

Liberty and Union

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Daniel Webster
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Name the author who wrote

A World Split Apart

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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Name the author who wrote

Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightening

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Mark Twain
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Name the author who wrote

Philadelphia Childhood

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Marian Anderson
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Name the author who wrote

O Captain! My Captain!

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Walt Whitman
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Name the author who wrote

The Pedestrian

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Ray Bradbury
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Name the author who wrote

The Mule

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Josh Billings
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Name the author who wrote

When the Frost Is on the Punkin'

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James Whitcomb Riley
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Name the author who wrote

The Thread that Runs So True

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Jessi Stuart
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Alliteration
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initial sounds are the same
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Assonance
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internal vowel sounds are the same
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Consonance
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ending consonant sounds are the same
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Dialect
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Regional language used by writers for realism
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Metaphor
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implied comparison; one thing described in terms of another
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Onomatopoeia
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sounds like what it is
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Personification
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human qualities given to inanimate/unhuman object
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Rhetorical device
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artful use of language by speakers to persuade (parallel phrases, rhetorical questions, figures of speech)
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Simile
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implied comparison; uses "like" or "as" (or other words such as "resembles" or "similar")
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Aphorism
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compact statement expressing a truth
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Tone
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attitude of author toward the subject
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Symbol
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something with meaning in itself but represents something greater
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Review the characters and plot of The Scarlet Letter.
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Review the characters of the following
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Know about the characters in

The Great Carbuncle

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Matthew

Hannah, the Seeker

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Know about the characters in

Experiences of the A.C.

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Enos Billings
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Know about the characters in

Hiawatha's Wooing

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Nakomis

Minnehaha

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Know about the characters in

Notorious Jumping Frog

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Simon Wheeler
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Know about the characters in

Cabbages Is Beautiful

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Selina Peake
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Know about the characters in

The Hoosier School-Master

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Ralph Hartsook

Mirandy

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Know about the characters in

The Unerring Instinct

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Belinda Watson

Leonora Thorpe

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Know about the characters in

Mission Accomplished

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Jim and Elisabeth Elliot
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Know about the characters in

Ben-Hur

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Judah Ben-Hur

Simonides

Massala

Malluch

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Know about the characters in

The Thread that Runs So True

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Jesse Stuart

Guy Hawkins

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Know about the characters in

Spoon River Anthology

 

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Emily Sparks
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