Abeka 11th grade American Literature Test 12 (final exam)

Topics: Writer
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Wrote Paul Revere’s Ride

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wrote Concord Hymn

Daniel Webster
Wrote Libery and Union

Billy Sunday
Wrote Nuts for Skeptics to Crack

Jonathan Edwards
Wrote Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

William Cullen Bryant
Wrote Thanatopsis

James Fenimore Cooper
Wrote A Rescue

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Wrote A World Split Apart

Sidney Lanier
Wrote Song of the Chattahoochee

Jesse Stuart
Wrote The Thread that Runs So True

Paul Laurence Dunbar
Wrote We Wear a Mask

Anne Bradstreet
Wrote The Author to Her Book

Phillis Wheatley
Wrote On Being Brought from Africa to America

Elizabeth Scott Stam
Wrote “In words you have a weapon, More weighty than a gun”

Martha Snell Nicholson
Wrote “The twig was bent, the tree inclined/ And so his heart and soul and mind…”

Robert Frost
Wrote ” So all who hide too well away/Must speak and tell us where they are.”

Marianne Moore
Wrote ” My father used to say /Superior people never make long visits”

Washington Irving
1st American author to be recognized internationally

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Wrote The Scarlett Letter

Pearl
Hester’s daughter

Chillingworth
Hester’s husband

Dimmesdale
Chillingworth wanted revenge on who?

Chillingworth
Said “thou has escaped me”

Scarlett Letter
Sin has consequences

The Baby Party
“I’ve never heard anybody so rude and ccommon in my life”

Cabbage is Beautiful
“Daintiness…should be the keynote of her supper box”

Contents of the Dead Mans Pocket
“And to live even a few seconds longer, he felt, even here on this ledge in the night, was infinitely better than to die a moment earlier than he had to”

The Enemy
“There is something about him that looks American”

Mr KAPLAN Cuts the Gordian Knot
“Humans should not be like Enimals! They should be Thinking!

Old Man at the Bridge
“The fact that cats know how to look after themselves was all the good luck the old man would ever have”

The Baby Party
“When John Andros felt old he found solace in the thought of life continuing through his child”

Mama and the Hospital
“Almost” she said wearily “almost did I get down the hall”

Walt Whitman
Wrote o Captain! My captain!

Fanny Crosby
Outstanding hymn writer of 19c

James Whitcomb Riley
Wrote When the Frost in on the Punkin

Lew Wallace
Wrote Ben Hur

Ray Bradbury
Wrote The Pedestrian

Mr Mead
Arrested while walking

Moby Dick
America’s only EPIC

Josh Billings
Wrote The Mule

Mark Twain
Wrote mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning

Joel Chandler Harris
Wrote Uncle Remus

Douglas MacArthur
Wrote My Father’s Prayer

Stephen Foster
America’s song composer

Conjugal Harmony
Theme – happy home

Fable
Theme – everyone and everything has a purpose

A Ballad of Trees and the Master
Theme – Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane

Philadelphia Childhood
Marian Anderson’s life

Onomatopoeia
Word itself makes sound

Personification
Giving inanimate objects/animals qualities of a human

Alliteration
Repeat of 1st consonant in words

Simile
Comparison using like or as

Dialect
Wording which is written per a geographic area, time period, or accent

Assonance
Repeat Rhyming mid word

Metaphor
Direct Comparison using is

Tone
Attitude or emotion author has towards subject

Symbol
Something that has meaning in itself and represents another thing as well

Aphorism
Compact staten expressing truth

Fireside poets
Group of poets people enjoyed at home with family and friends

Muckrakers
Name of group of naturalist writers who believed people are victims of their environment

Edgar Allen Poe
American detective story and horror poetry

The Experiences of the AC
Enos Billings

Hiawatha’s Wooing
Nokomis

The Unerring Instinct
Belinda Watson

The Great Carbuncle
Mattew & Hannah

The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calvares County
Simon Wheeler

Cabbage is Beautiful
Selina Peake

Spoon River Anthology
Emily Sparks

Mission Accomplished
Jim Elliot

The Thread That Runs So True
Guy Hawkins

Ben-Hur
Simonides

The Hoosier School Master
Ralph Harstock

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