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Mrs. Hawkins - 11th Grade Literature
Test 9; Units 8-12 (Ben Hur)
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Literature
11th Grade
03/18/2013

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"Nuts for Skeptics to Crack"

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Billy Sunday
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Ben-Hur

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Lew Wallace
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"Song of the Chattahoochee"

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Sidney Lanier
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"O Captain! My Captain"

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Walt Whitman
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"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"

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Jonathan Edwards
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"Employments of Heaven"

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T. Dewitt Talmage
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"Self Reliance"

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"When the Frost Is on the Punkin"

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James  Whitcomb Riley
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"Is the Bible True"

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William Jennings Bryan
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"A World Split Apart"

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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"I Never Saw a Moor"

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Emily Dickinson
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Walden

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Henry David Thoreau
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Realism
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Literary movement concerned with faithfully depicting subject matter or representing real life accurately
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Transcendentalism
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Philosophical/pseudo religious movement: divinity is found in nature; man must rely on himself
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Aphorism
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Compact statement expressing a truth
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Refrain
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phrase or sentence repeated at intervals
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Tone
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Speaker's attitude toward a subject
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______________ was a lawyer, statesman, and soldier.
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Lew Wallace
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______________ was America's first modern poet.
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Walt Whitman
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_____________ was the most beloved and outstanding hymnwriter of 1800's.
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Fanny Crosby
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____________ was America's most beloved popular song composer.
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Stephen Foster
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_______________ was the "scholarly" preacher; his sermons were widely read.
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T. Dewitt Talmage
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__________________ founded Tuskegee Institute and wrote Up From Slavery.
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Booker T. Washington
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_______________ was a baseball player turned preacher.
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Billy Sunday
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Know the characters from Ben-Hur
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