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To Build a Fire
The Story of an Hour
100
When Grandmother tells everybody her husband taught her karate but we know she learned from her uncle.
What is dramatic irony?
100
Name a fact from "Reaction to the Emacipation Proclamation".
What is The Proclamation was printed in the Evening Star newspaper?
100

What is the Emily Dickinson poem "Water, is taught by thirst" about?

Opposites teach about each other.

100
Who survives in "To Build a Fire"?
What is the dog?
100
How does Mrs. Mallard react to the news her husband has died?
What is sad but still excited?
200

Name a characteristic of Transcendentalism.

relying on yourself, the individual is sacred, anti-technology, political, be yourself

200
According to "Recollections of a Private", what do the recruitment posters promise soldiers?
What is travel and promotion?
200

What style of writing does Edgar Allan Poe use?

Romanticism

Realism

Puritan Plain Style

Gothicism

Gothic style

200
What is the external conflict in “To Build a Fire”?
What is between man and dog?
200
Who is the author of "The Story of an Hour"?
Who is Kate Chopin?
300
A fact is different from an opinion because a fact
What is can be proved right or wrong?
300
What does "An Account of an Experience with Discrimination" reveal about Sojourner Truth?
What is she was capable of defending herself?
300

What is another name for slant rhyme (what is it also knows as)?

half rhyme 

300
What happens that puts the man's life in danger in "To Build a Fire"?
What is he gets his feet wet/falls into the water?
300
Give an example of dramatic irony from "The Story of an Hour".
What is when the audience knows the real reason Mrs. Mallard dies at the end?
400
What is the term for when Mrs. Mallard whispers, “free, free, free,” after hearing of her husband's death in "The Story of an Hour"?
What is verbal irony?
400
How many people died in the Civil War?
What is 620,000?
400

What was the purpose of Lewis and Clark's journey west?

They were supposed to explore, map the land, and find an all-water route from east to west.

400
Who is the author of "To Build a Fire"?
Who is Jack London?
400
What happens toward the end of “The Story of an Hour” that changes the entire story?
What is Mrs. Mallard's husband walks in the door, unharmed?
500

True or false:

Romanticism/Transcendentalism portrays life in a way we wish it could be, not as it actually is.  

True

500
What battle was the turning point in the Civil War?
What is Gettysburg?
500

Name a way you can show your own form of "Civil Disobedience".

Attend a protest/rally.

Run for public office.

Email/call your elected officila to tell them you disagree with a policy.

Donate money to a person running for office you support.

500
What element did we study/focus on while reading "To Build a Fire"?
What is naturalism?
500
In “The Story of an Hour,” whom does Mrs. Mallard believe she will live for when she thinks her husband has been killed?
What is herself?