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11th Grade
05/23/2012

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What does the CHARIOT represent?
Definition
Underground railroad
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What does the JORDAN represent?
Definition
Boundary between slave and free slaves
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What does the BAND OF ANGELS represent?
Definition
People who helped the slaves
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What are the purposes of the refrain?
Definition
To emphasize key idea
To establish rhythm of spirtual
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Who spoke/made the Gettysburg Address?
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Abe Lincoln
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What is the reason that Lincoln gave his speech?
Definition
To honor falling dead
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How long was the Gettysburg Address?
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5 mins, 11 sentences
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According to Lincoln what was the "great task remainign before us"?
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Bring together the nation
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Which author has often been called Laurette of Confederacy?
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Henry Timrod
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Which author tutored the children of wealthy plantation owners?
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Henry Timrod
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Which author was born in Charleston, SC?
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Henry Timrod
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What is an ode?
Definition
Complex; often lengthy lyric poem, writting in a formal style on serious subject
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What was the purpose Ode on Confederate Dead?
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To honor dead confederate soldiers
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Who are the "marytrs of the fallen cause" in Ode on Confederate Dead?
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Confederate Soldiers
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What is the fallen cause in Ode on Confederate Dead?
Definition
In the South
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What is sleep an allusion to in Ode on Confederate Dead?
Definition
Death
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What is the mood of the poem Ode on Confederate Dead?
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Sad, Dignified
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What is local color?
Definition
Uses specific details associated with a specific region of the country
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Which author was born in NEW YORK?
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Bret Harte
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Which author was appointed Us Coursul in Germany?
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Bret Harte
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Which author worked as a miner, teacher, messenger, pritner, and journalist?
Definition
Bret Harte
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Which author was the winnder of the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature?
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William Faulkner
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Which auhtor grew up in Mississippi?
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William Faulkner
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Which author's fiction dicusses issues of sex, class, race relations, relations w/ nature?
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William Faulkner
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Which author was from Louisiana?
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Kate Choplin
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Who was attacked for writting The Awakening ( a nveol about a woman's seach for independence ) ?
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Kate Choplin
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Which author is considered one of the most controversal writers of her time?
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Kate Choplin
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How is The Outcasts of Poker Flat a color story?
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Setting: Saloon, Gold Mines, gambling, mountains
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What was the irony in The Outcasts of Poker Flat?
Definition
He was smart and looked after everyone else but in the end killed himself. Became a coward.
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Where were the outcasts headed in The Outcasts of Poker Flat?
Definition
Sandy Bar
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What is omniscient point of view?
Definition
When narrator knows EVERYTHING
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What is objective point of view?
Definition
narrative reports like a camera w/ comment
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What is limited-third person point of view?
Definition
narrator zooms in on thought and feelings of a single character
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In what point of view is An occurence at Owl Creek Bridge written in?
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Objective
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What does Farquar imagine in An occurence at Owl Creek Bridge written?
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He imagines escaping
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Four examples of foreshadowing in An occurence at Owl Creek Bridge written ?
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Tricking of wath
Driftwood
Sounds of bug
Veins on leaves
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Irony in An occurence at Owl Creek Bridge written?
Definition
Soldier ( conferderate set him up)
attempt to burn bridge
fighting reality of death
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Themes of this author's works reflect how people fight the reality of death?
Definition
Ambrose Bierce
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This author is noted for his/her tales of Civil War?
Definition
Ambrose Bierce
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AUthor is best remembeed for his/her cynical but humorous Devil's Dictionary
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Ambrose Bierce
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How does the story "Desiree's baby exemplify local color?
Definition
Plantation
French Words
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Who wrote the Outcasts of Poker Flats?
Definition
Bret Harte
Term
Who wrote An Occurence at Owl Creek?
Definition
Ambrose Bierce
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Who wrote A Rose for Emily?
Definition
William Faulkner
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Who wrote Desiree's Baby?
Definition
Kate Choplin
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Who worte The Story of An HOur?
Definition
Kate Choplin
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What is situational irony?
Definition
Usually ending of a story
Ending is far different from what was expected
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What is dramatic irony?
Definition
Occurs when readers knows something that a cahracter int he story doesnt know
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What is verbal irony?
Definition
Word/Phrase is used to mean exactly the opposite of its usual meaning
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