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US Lit Midterm Review

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Which figure of speech consists of repetition?

a. assonance

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What word does the Raven repear in Edgar Allan Poe's poem?

Nervermore

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What is the tone in a literary work?

In literature, tone is the attitude or approach that the author takes toward the work’s central theme or subject. It's similar to the mood.

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Define "fable".

In literature, a fable is a short fictional story that has a moral or teaches a lesson. It uses humanized animals, objects, or parts of nature as main character

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American Romanticism incorporated a lot from British Romanticism. What were the particular characteristics of the American movement?

U.S. values and cultural traits, U.S. landscape, which was much more vast than British, and ideals of democracy and freedom.

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Who is considered the primary author of the "Declaration of Independence"?

Thomas Jefferson

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What event in U.S. history greatly influenced American Romanticism?

American Revolution and the indepenence of the U.S.

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True or False: in the play "The Crucible", the author starts by showing the girls dancing in the woods.

False. The dancing is only alluded to, but never shown.

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What is a "trickster"?

A "trickster" is a person who cheats or deceives people. We saw Coyote as a trickster in the Native American fable.

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Emily Dickinson is known for using which type of ponctuation in her poems?

The dash "-"

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This is a section ot the poem "The Raven". What literary device of repetition can you identify in the second line?

Alliteration

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This is a section ot the poem "The Raven". What literary device of repetition can you identify in the second line?

Alliteration

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This is a section ot the poem "The Raven". Which two lines consists of internal rhymes?

The first (peering/fearing) and the thrid (unbroken/token)

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Define "allusion".

Allusion is basically a reference to something else. It’s when a writer mentions some other work, or refers to an earlier part of the current work

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Define "onomatopoeia".

Onomatopoeia (pronounced ˌ’AH-nuh-mah-tuh-PEE-uh’) refers to words whose pronunciations imitate the sounds they describe. "Woof" is an onomatopoeia a dog's bark

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Identify the literary device used to describe the path in "Jurrasic Park". The author is evoking a visual and auditory ________ in this excerpt.

imagery

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