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Question 1

self-taught farm boy who became a lawyer/legislator and was an effective oral and written communicator

Answer 1

Abraham Lincoln

Question 2

the repetition of three parallel phrases or clauses of equal length within a sentence

Answer 2

tricolon

Question 3

Lincoln wrote these things

Answer 3

1. Gettysburg Address
2. Second Inaugural Address

Question 4

pessimistic writer who was a known for being bitter, disappeared during Pancho Villa’s rebellion

Answer 4

Ambrose Bierce

Question 5

creating the reader’s anticipation by withholding information about the nature of outcome of a situation

Answer 5

suspense

Question 6

presenting a discrepancy between appearance and reality or between expectation and fulfillment (a surprise ending)

Answer 6

situational irony

Question 7

a technique in which the author references events that occurred before the action of the main story

Answer 7

flashback

Question 8

Ambrose Bierce wrote _______

Answer 8

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

Question 9

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
1. setting
2. man’s name
3. what happens?

Answer 9

1. Alabama
2. Peyton Farquhar
3. he suffocates and dies, but at first you think he escapes

Question 10

Frederick Douglass was friends with what president?

Answer 10

Abraham Lincoln

Question 11

a contradiction in what is expected to happen and what actually happens

Answer 11

irony

Question 12

the use of syntactical parallelism in two adjacent phrases or clauses to emphasize their contrasting meanings

Answer 12

antithesis

Question 13

Frederick Douglass wrote __1__, which said that __2__ was the power/key to freedom

Answer 13

1. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
2. education

Question 14

three functions of spirituals

Answer 14

1. help pass the long work hours
2. encode information about the Underground Railroad
3. communicated theology

Question 15

________ revived the spirituals at concerts to raise money

Answer 15

Jubilee Singers

Question 16

a musical structure in which one singer calls out one line or part of a line nod another singer answers him

Answer 16

call-and-response

Question 17

refers to people, places, events, or passages from the Bible

Answer 17

Biblical allusions

Question 18

three innovations that led to changes in transportation

Answer 18

trains, planes, and automobiles

Question 19

over _______ immigrants came to the US from 1860-1890

Answer 19

10 million

Question 20

population after the war shifted to _______

Answer 20

cities

Question 21

after the war, the people turned to ______ for leadership

Answer 21

businessmen

Question 22

science that accepted rationalism and abandoned scientific objectivity and raised questions about the authority of Scripture

Answer 22

Darwinism

Question 23

______ assumes the Bible is like any other book

Answer 23

“higher criticism”

Question 24

three doctrines of liberalism

Answer 24

1. God is the father of all men
2. all men are brothers
3. all religions are true

Question 25

______ attacks symptoms of evil instead of cause

Answer 25

social-gospel movement

Question 26

two men who led revivals

Answer 26

Billy Sunday and D. L. Moody

Question 27

supports inerrancy of Scripture, virgin birth of Christ, Christ's death and resurrection, and the miracle working power of Jesus

Answer 27

fundamentalism

Question 28

presents the world not as it once had been or how people wish it was, but as it really is

Answer 28

realism

Question 29

says that people's lives are controlled by natural forces

Answer 29

naturalism

Question 30

literature transitioned from ____ to ____

Answer 30

romantic to realistic

Question 31

American Dickens

Answer 31

Bret Harte

Question 32

a stock character, similar to a stereotype, rather than a developed, three-dimensional character

Answer 32

character type

Question 33

the overly emotional treatment of a subject in an attempt to elicit or play upon the reader’s emotions

Answer 33

sentimentalism

Question 34

symbols in the Boom in the Calaveras Clarion

Answer 34

runaway slave and arm holding hammer

Question 35

"Hoosier poet"

Answer 35

James Whitcomb Riley

Question 36

descriptive words or phrases that appeal to sense perceptions

Answer 36

imagery

Question 37

use of words that imitate the sounds being described

Answer 37

onomatopoeia

Question 38

character type in the Boom in the Calaveras Clarion

Answer 38

oppressive husband

Question 39

two realistic parts of the Boom in the Calaveras Clarion

Answer 39

dialogue and setting

Question 40

two romantic parts of the Boom in the Calaveras Clarion

Answer 40

character type and sentimentalism

Question 41

wrote A White Heron

Answer 41

Sarah Orne Jewett

Question 42

conflict in a White Heron

Answer 42

internal

Question 43

Emily Dickinson wrote over ______ poems

Answer 43

1,000

Question 44

Emily Dickinson focused on: 1. ______ when younger 2. ______ when older

Answer 44

1. nature 2. death

Question 45

Emily Dickinson used: 1. _____ rhyme 2. this punctuation mark

Answer 45

1. slant 2. dash

Question 46

verbal irony in Desiree's Baby

Answer 46

1. Desiree = desired 2. L'Abri = shelter