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was awarded the Medal of Honor

Ben Salomon

100

Who wrote "The Gold Bug"?

Edgar Allen Poe

100

What type of character stays the same?
What type of character changes?

Static
Dynamic

100

A comparison using like/as

Simile

100

On what was Edward Murrow reporting?

The Buchenwald concentration camp

200

wanted to become a musketeer

d'Artagnan
200

Who addressed Congress after Pearl Harbor?

Franklin D. Roosevelt

200

The writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject?

Tone

200

An implied comparison not using like/as

Metaphor

200

In Cyrano de Bergerac, what did the Bore insult about Cyrano?

His nose

300

wished to never again hear the name of the United States again

Philip Nolan

300

Who addressed the American people after 9/11?

President George W. Bush

300

The point of highest intensity in a story of poem, which usually comes just before the final resolution of the conflict?

climax

300

Giving humanlike qualities to inanimate objects or animals.

Personification

300

Who started the fire in "A Spark Neglected Burns the House"?

Garbriel

400

found hidden treasure all because of a bug

William Legrand

400

Who wrote Cyrano de Bergerac

Edmond Rostand

400

The time and place a story takes place.

Setting

400

Regional speech used by an author

Dialect

400

What poem contains the lines, "Look out how you use proud words"?

"Primer Lesson"

500

In "The Rat Trap," the name of the ironmaster's daughter who showed kindness to the peddler.

Edla Willmansson

500

Who wrote "A Spark Neglected Burns the House"

Leo Tolstoy

500

POV - An all-knowing author is the narrator who comments freely on the actions and characters and tells what they think or feel.

Omniscient

500

Use of words to appeal to the reader's senses

Imagery

500

In "You've Got to Learn," what is the climax?

The lynxes fighting with the otter

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