Abeka, American Literature Final Exam

A rescue

A world Split Apart

Concord Hymn

Liberty and Union

Nuts for Skeptics to Crack

On being Brought from Africa to America

Paul Revere’s Ride

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

Song of the Chattahoochee

Thanatopsis

The Author the Her Book

The Thread that runs so True

We wear the Mask

The Scarlet Letter

O Captain! My Captain!

When the Frost is on the Pumpkin

Ben-Hur

The Pedestrian

The Mule

Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning

My father’s prayer

Title “Daintiness, she had decided, should be the keystone of her supper box”

Author “Daintiness, she had decided, should be the keystone of her supper box”

Title ” “No profession,”said the police car, as if talking to itself. The light held him fixed, like a museum specimen, needle thrust through chest.”

Author ” “No profession,”said the police car, as if talking to itself. The light held him fixed, like a museum specimen, needle thrust through chest.”

Title “Almost,” she said wearily, “almost did I get down the hall” and “Then she clicked her tongue disapprovingly. “But such floors! A mop is never good. Floors should be scrubbed with a brush.”

Author “Almost,” she said wearily, “almost did I get down the hall” and “Then she clicked her tongue disapprovingly. “But such floors! A mop is never good. Floors should be scrubbed with a brush.”

Title-“And to live few seconds longer, he felt, even out here on this ledge in the night, was infinitely better than to die moment earlier than he had to”.

Author-“And to live few seconds longer, he felt, even out here on this ledge in the night, was infinitely better than to die moment earlier than he had to”.

Title-“Humans should not be like Enimals! They should Thinking!”

Author-“Humans should not be like Enimals! They should Thinking!”

Title-“There is something about him that looks America”

Author-“There is something about him that looks America”

Title-“I will get out!” she sobbed, “I’ve never heard anybody so rude and c-common in my life”

Author-“I will get out!” she sobbed, “I’ve never heard anybody so rude and c-common in my life”

Title-“That and the fact that cats know how to look after themselves was all the good luck that old man would ever have.”

Author-“That and the fact that cats know how to look after themselves was all the good luck that old man would ever have.”

Title- “In words you have a weapon, more weighty than a gun-You can sway the multitude, or stir the heart of one.”

Author-“In words you have a weapon, more weighty than a gun-You can sway the multitude, or stir the heart of one.”

Title- “My father used to say,”Superior people never make long visits””

Author-“My father used to say,”Superior people never make long visits””

Title-“So all who hide too well away must speak and tell us where they are.”

Author-“So all who hide too well away must speak and tell us where they are.”

Title-“The twig was bent, the tree inclined, and so his heart and soul and mind found it too hard a thing to do…. I thought of other young lads who”

Author-“The twig was bent, the tree inclined, and so his heart and soul and mind found it too hard a thing to do…. I thought of other young lads who”

The Experiences of the A.C.

The Notorious Jumping Frog…

Ben-Hur

The Thread that Runs So True

Cabbages is Beautiful

The Unerring Instinct

The Hoosier School-Master

Spoon River Anthology

Mission Accomplished

The Great Carbuncle

Philadelphia childhood

A Ballad of Tree

Everyone and everything has a purpose

importance of happy home

First author the be recognized internationally

Introduced the detective story

Most outstanding hymn writer of the 19th centry

America’s only epic

America’s most beloved song composer

An approximate rhyme in which initial consonant sounds are the same.

A compact statement expressing a thrush. A number of aphorisms appear in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s works.

The repetition of vowel sounds.

The repetition of final consonant sounds.

Regional language used by a writer to make his dialogue more realistic. Black dialect was masterfully employed by Joel Chandler Harris and Paul Laurence Danbar. James Whitcomb Riley is famous for his poems using the Hoosier dialect of the people of Indiana.

The popular poets of the nineteenth century whose works were read by family and friends around the fireside and were learned and memorized in school. Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell.

An implied comparison in which one thing is described in terms of another.

A group of writers of the 1930s who criticized the American free enterprise system and other things about the American government. The term was first used by Theodore Roosevelt, who compared them to the character in Pilgrim’s profess who was so busy raking mud that he could not perceive the heavenly crown above him. The group includes the writers Lincoln Steffens and Upton Sinclair.

Using words which sound like what they mean (growl, hiss, pop)

A comparison in which human qualities are given to an inanimate object or an animal.

An expressed comparison of unlike things in which the words like, as, resembles, or similar to are used.

Something which has meaning in itself but also represents something beyond itself. Sara Teasdale’s poems “The Coin” and ” The Long Hill” and both based on symbols. Herman Melville’s Moby Dick is symbolic novel.