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Mrs. Hawkins's 11th Grade Literature Mid term exam
BCA 11th grade Mrs. Hawkins Mid term Exam
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Literature
11th Grade
01/12/2013

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A man and wife take measures against a storm 
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Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightening
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A prisoner endures the horrors of a torture chamber
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Pit and the Pendulum
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Four men on a lifeboat seek rescue
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The Open Boat
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Two travelers act ignorant to their guide
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The Innocents abroad
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Describes God's unconfined, overflowing love
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Meditation one
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Teaches us not to dwell on past accomplishments
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The Present Crisis
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Reminds us of the power of words
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Jingle of Words
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A man buys a slave to have his cousin teach her
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Topsy
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A man awakens from a 20-year nap
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Rip Van Winkle
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We learn that our actions have far-reaching consequences
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The Arrow and the Song
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Gives a picture of judgement Day
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Day of Doom
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A woman invents a story about the Smith family
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The Unerring Instinct
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Jim Smiley
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The Notorious Jumping Frog
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Zekle
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The Courtin'
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Fedallah
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Moby Dick
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Deerslayer
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A Rescue
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Soapy
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The Cop and the Anthem
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Ahab
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Moby Dick
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The Bray Sisters
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The Town Poor
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Belinda Watson
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The Unerring Instinct
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Nokomis
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Hiawatha's Wooing
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Pricilla Mullins
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The Lover's Errand
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Topsy
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Matthew & Hannah
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The Great Carbuncle
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"The Town Poor"- Author
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Sarah Orne Jewett
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Snow-Bound (Author)
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John Greenleaf Whitlier
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The Scarlet Letter (Author)
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"Reflections on American Life: A Collection of Sayings" (Author)
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Will Rogers, Jr.
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"The Cop and the Anthem" (Author)
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O. Henry
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"A Republic of Prairie Dogs" (Author) 
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Washington Irving
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"They Have Yarns" (Author)
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Carl Sandburg
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"The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" (Author)
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Mark Twain (Samuel Clemmons)
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"American Names" (Author)
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Stephen Vincent Benet
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Poor Richard's Almanac (Author)
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Benajamin Franklin
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("clatter, pop, bang")

words sound like what they are

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Onomatopoeia
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( like / as )

comparison uses like or as

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Simile
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( Lifetime is a minute )

Comparison where one thing is described in terms of another

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Metaphor
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( Zekle and Huldy )

Regional language written use for effect

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Dialect
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( Waves Were White )

Initial consonant sounds are the same

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Alliteration
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( "cold as hell-fire" )

truth expressed in a contradiction

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Paradox
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higest point of interest in a story
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Climax
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Physical background of a story 

(Can be time, place, etc....)

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Setting
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Words appeal to our senses
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imagery
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Characters Stay the Same
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Static Characters
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Characters Change (Different)
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Dynamic Characters
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Hero - Main Character
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Protagonist
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brings conflict againist the Protagonist or main character
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Antagonist
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Regular Recurrance of sound
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Rhythm
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Correspondence of Sound
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Rhyme
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