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Liturature Flashcards (Freshman year)
A colection of Works and their Authors for the Freshman year Liturature book of FBS
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Literature
9th Grade
01/17/2012

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Good Morning, Miss Dove
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Frances Gray Patton
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A School of Facts
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Charles Dickens
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Education, Our Own Work
Definition
John Todd
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The Garden-Party
Definition
Katherine Mansfield
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A Poet's Plea for Poetry
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Edwin Markhan
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The Highwayman
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Alfred Noyes
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How They Brought the Good News for Ghent to Aix
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Robert Browning
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The Death of the Hired Man
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Robert Frost
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The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
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The Deacon's Masterpiece, or the Woderful "One-Hoss Shay": A Logical Story
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The Tell-Tale Heart
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Edgar Allan Poe
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The Listeners
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Walter de la Mare
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The Raven
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Edgar Allan Poe
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The Dead Hand
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Percival Christian Wren
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The Red-headed League
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Sir Alfred Conan Doyal
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The Erl-king
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The Inspiratoin of Mr. Budd
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Dorothy L. Sayers
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Leiningen versus the Ants
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Carl Stephenson
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The Skater of Ghost Lake
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William Rose Benet
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Smells
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Christophyer Morley
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Meeting at Night
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Robert Browning
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Plater and I
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Juan Ramon Jimenez
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The Oak
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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A Lonely Pin Is Standing
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Heinrich Heine
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I Like to See It Lap the Miles
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Emily Dickinson
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It Sifts from Leaden Sieves
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Emily Dickinson
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The Deserted House
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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The Story-Teller
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Mark Van Doren
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The Road not Taken
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Robert Frost
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Alone
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Hermann Hesse
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The Folly of Being Comforted
Definition
William Butler Yeats
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Of the Imitation of Christ
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Thomas a Kempis
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After St. Augustine
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Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
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The Practice of the Presence of God
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Brother Lawrence
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Excelsior
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The Great Stone Face
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Deserve It!
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Author Unknown
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Work
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Henry Van Dyke
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Quality
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John Galsworthy
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The Verger
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W. Somerset Maugham
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My Father's Hands
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Calvin R. Worthington
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Pleasures of Knowledge
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Sydney Smith
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The Ways
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John Oxenham
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Hinds' Feet on High Places
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Hannah Hurnard
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin
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Robert Browning
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The Bells
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Lochinvar
Definition
Sir Walter Scott
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Upon His Departure Hence
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Robert Herrick
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The Destruction of Sennacherib
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George Gordon, Lord Byron
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Which Author is considered the greatest of all German dramatists?
Definition
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
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Who was the leader of the Irish Renaissance and was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1923?
Definition
William Butler Yeats
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Who was a German poet, novelist, and essayist, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1946?
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Hermann Hesse
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Which author's works were not popular until his/her death
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Emily Dickinson
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Which author was a German romantic writer from a Jewish family?
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Heinrich Heine
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Which Author was a German novelist, poet and playwrite who was considered one of the greatest writers of the world?
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Johann Wolfgang von Goeth
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Which Virginian poet wrote briliant poems with an eerie quality; one of the best story tellers.
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Edgar Allan Poe
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The most popular American poet of the 1800s
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Perfected the dramatic monolog
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Robert Browning
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A Scottish poet who is best known for his historical novels
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Sir Walter Scott
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Known as "Mr. Boston"
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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An unstressed sylable followed by a stressed
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Iambic
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A stressed sylable followed by an unstressed
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Trochee
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An unstressed followed by another unstressed followed by a stressed
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Anapest
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A stressed sylable followed by an unstressed followed by another unstressed
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Dactyl
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A stressed sylable followed by another stressed
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Spondee
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One stressed sylable
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Monosyllabic Foot
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The pattern in a line of poetry consisting of one accented syllagle and one or two unaccented syllables
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Foot
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The recurrence of sound or motion
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Rhythm
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A soft, smooth, or pleasant effect
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Euphony
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A rough, harsh, unpleasant effect
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Cacophony
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The use of initial consonant or vowel sounds that are the same
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Alliteration
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The repetition of final consonant sounds
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Consonance
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The repetition of like vowel sounds followed by unlike consonants
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Assonance
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The repetition of the stressed vowel sound and all succeeding sounds in words which come at the ends of lines of poetry
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End Rhyme
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Repetition within the same line of poetry
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Internal Rhyme
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Words which are not true rhymes but sometimes sound similar
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Approximate Rhyme
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When only one syllable of the words rhymes
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Masculine Rhyme
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When two or more syllables of the words rhyme
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Feminine Rhyme
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Using words which sound like what they mean
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Onomatopoeia
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A narrative or description in which the characters, places, and other items are symbols
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Allegory
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The manner in which the writer deals with his subject and the general effedt is is meant to have on its audience
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Tone
Term
An English novelist and playwright who won the Order of Merit and the Nobel Prize for Liturature
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John Galsworthy
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Addressing an inanimate object as if it were alive or adressing an absent person as if he were present
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Apostrophy
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Has meaning in itself but also represents something beyond itself
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Symbol
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An exaggeration
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Hyperbole
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The use of words which appeal to the senses
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Imagery
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A short narrative song written in stanzas
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Ballad
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