Catechism Quotes
“Let me learn by _______
That the way down is the way up,
That to be low is to be high, ..."
What is "paradox"?
The literary era of Plymouth Plantation
What is Theism?
Double Jeopardy!
Author of "The Red Pony" and "Of Mice and Men"
Who is John Steinbeck?
Appealing to emotion
What is pathos?
"I’ll bet they don’t know what’s going to happen to them today."
Who is Jody in The Red Pony?
The statement of what you are trying to prove in an essay
What is a thesis?
"...whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to ______ or to ______ it" - The Declaration of Independence
What is "alter" and "abolish"?
Literature with a focus on reason, man's knowledge, and science as opposed to the supernatural.
What is Deist literature?
He said, “To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, that is genius … imitation is suicide”
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
Appealing to authority by using historical figures and factual information.
What is ethos?
“I've heard it said that there are men who read in books to convince themselves there is a God. I know not but man may so deform his works in the settlements, as to leave that which is so clear in the wilderness a matter of doubt among traders and priests” (152).
Who is Hawkeye in The Last of the Mohicans?
The author's message in a story that is universal; it can apply to anyone.
What is a theme?
"... that whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to ______ or to ______ it, and to institute new Government, ..."
What are "alter" and "abolish"?
Romantic novel of the French and Indian War that helped create the idea of the noble savage.
What is The Last of the Mohicans?
"So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!"
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Giving credit to whom credit is due when writing
“From my earliest recollection, I date the entertainment of a deep conviction that slavery would not always be able to hold me within its foul embrace;..."
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Literature characterized by extreme emotion above reason, fanciful and noble savage characters, exotic locations, and the sublime in nature.
What is Romanticism?
Heaven hath granted thee an ______ ________, that thereby thou mayest work out an open triumph over the evil within thee, and the sorrow without” (58).
What is "open ignominy"?
The old man Santiago wishes this boy was with him in the boat.
Who is Manolin/Manuel?
This poet's tribute to Abraham Lincoln dates back to 1865.
Who is Walt Whitman?
Double Jeopardy!
If you don't use this appeal, you probably sound illogical.
What is logos?
"They're right where we want them. All we have to do is swing around that way...and get between them and Lincoln and find some good high ground, and they'll have to hit us, they'll have to, and we'll have them, General, we'll have them!"
Who is General Longstreet?
Joshua Chamberlain's brother in The Killer Angels.
Who is Thomas?
"Last but not least, they cherished a great hope and inward zeal of laying good foundations, or at least of making some way towards it, for the ________ and _________ of the gospel..."
What is "propagation" and "advance"?
Literature characterized by gritty details.
What is Realism?
This author lived an adventurous life, enjoying bullfighting, battling sharks while fishing, going on safari, working as a war correspondent, and surviving three airplane crashes.
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
Helping the reader to create a mental picture or to experience your writing by using the five senses
What is imagery?
"Poor boy, I reckon he's lied about it -- but it's a blessed, blessed lie, there's such comfort in it. I hope the Lord -- I know the Lord will forgive him, because it was such good-heartedness in him to tell it. But I don't want to find out it's a lie. I won't look."
Who is Aunt Polly in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer?
The part of a persuasive essay that explains to whom it matters and why
What is the Amplification?
“...as the chief ends of conversation are to inform, or to be informed, to _______ or to _______, I wish well-meaning, sensible men would not lessen their power of doing good by a positive, assuming manner, ..."
What are "please", and "persuade"?
Double Jeopardy!
The day the defense of Devil's Den AND Little Round Top took place in The Killer Angels
What is the second day (July 2, 1863)?
Writer of The Killer Angels
Who is Michael Shaara?
Two types of comparisons of unlike things that share a common characteristic.
What are similes and metaphors?
Double Jeopardy!
"It is all my fault, it is all my fault. We shall rest and try it again another day. Now you must show good order. Never let them see you run."
Who is General Robert E. Lee?
Who is Uncle Tom?
“Liberty!--_______ word! What is it? Is there anything more in it than a name – a __________ flourish? Why, men and women of America, does your heart’s blood _____ at that word, for which your fathers bled, and your braver mothers were willing that their noblest and best should die? Is there anything in it glorious and dear for a nation, that is not also glorious and dear for a man (378)?”
What are "electric", "rhetorical", and "thrill"?
Transcendentalist work that teaches man is his own god
What is "Self-Reliance"?
He wrote that he wished "I might enjoy that God, and be rapt up to him in heaven; and be as it were swallowed up in him forever!”
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
The part of the essay that informs the reader what is most important and why, and to whom it matters and why.
What is the amplification?
"...I entertain'd an opinion that, though certain actions might not be bad because they were forbidden by [Revelation], or good because it commanded them, yet probaby those actions might be forbidden because they were bad for us, or commanded because they were beneficial to us,..."
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
Placing two opposing ideas or characters in close proximity to create a contrast.
What is juxtaposition?
Double Jeopardy!
“‘Now unto the King, _______, _______, _______, the only wise God, be honor and glory forever and ever, Amen.’"
What are "eternal, immortal, invisible"?
Literary era that embraces:
Nature (life) is against you
Survival of the fittest & Fate
Behavioral psychology
Man is a product of the environment
What is Naturalism?
This author wrote that he "wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived..."
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
Ascribing life-like qualities to inanimate objects.
What is personification or anthropomorphism?
“...though he were to step down from a high place, and stand there beside thee, on thy pedestal of shame, yet better were it so, than to hide a guilty heart through life…Heaven hath granted thee an open ignominy, that thereby thou mayest work out an open triumph over the evil within thee, and the sorrow without” (58).
Who is the Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter?
Double Jeopardy!
A humorous poem that has a single stanza about a short, witty tale and an AABBC rhyme scheme
What is a limerick?