Who is considered the primary author of the "Declaration of Independence"?
Thomas Jefferson
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What word does the Raven repear in Edgar Allan Poe's poem?
Nervermore
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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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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 "hyperbole"
Hyperbole is a figure of speech in which an author or speaker purposely and obviously exaggerates to an extreme. "The suitcase weighed a ton"
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Identify the 4 main types of conflicts and which one is the main one in "Moby Dick"
The types of conflict: man vrs self; man vrs man; man vs society; man vrs nature. "Moby Dick"'s main conflict is man brs nature, against the whale.
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Which figure of speech consists of repetition?
a. assonance
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Explain what is the climax of "The Crucible".
It's the moment John Proctor admits his adultery to the court in Salem, which was his main conflict in the whole story.
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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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Edgar Allan Poe was an important author of which sub-genre of the American Romanticism movement?
Gothic
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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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Why do some question the authenticity of Olaudah Equiano's "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano"
Because some historians question his place of birth, which would mean he did not cross the Atlantic on a slave ship
